D’Inverness à Brighton: notes et sentiments sur les Îles Britanniques

Name of traveller

Pierre Trabaud

Reason for travel

• travelling as cultural tourist, self-improvement

Date of travel

summer 1846

[À] la vue triste et noirâtre des schistes et des ardoises succédait une verdure éclatante, une verte verdure dans toute sa crudité herbacée, nous avions laissé derrière nous les pics neigeux pour les fraîches sinuosités de la vallée de la Dee. (Trabaud 384)

Content

• architecture: impressed by Menai Bridge as work of 'modern Titans'
• clothing: describes women's hats
• customs: Welsh culturally distinct particularly in language, clothing and religion
• language: describes Welsh language as a blend of English and remnants of an old Celtic language
• literature: is aware of bias in travel writing, but attempts to give faithful account
• people: admiration for mountain dwellers
• politics: discusses relationship between England and Wales, and Welsh independence
• terrain:
  • landscapes of north Wales picturesque, green, fertile
  • compares mountains with Switzerland
• transport:
  
  • ports on Anglesey compare favourably to France
  • notes that railway from Holyhead to London is now almost complete
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Nationality of traveller

French

Language of publication

French

Gender of traveller

Male

Type of publication

essay; travelogue

Citation

Trabaud, Pierre. "Pays de Galles." D’Inverness à Brighton: notes et sentiments sur les Îles Britanniques. London: Baillière, 1853. 376-85. Print.