Essai sur l’économie rurale et l’Angleterre de l’Ecosse et de l’Irlande
Name of traveller
Léonce de Lavergne (1809-1880)
Reason for travel
- research for academic lectures
Date of travel
1848
Dans ses rapports avec l’Angleterre, le pays de Galles est un mélange d’Écosse et d’Irlande: pendant longtemps le mauvais côté, le côté analogue à l’Irlande, a prévalu ; c’est décidément le bon, le côté semblable à l’Écosse, qui l’emporte. (Lavergne 303)
Content
- contains a survey of agriculture and industry
- customs:
- Wales described as Celtic, but assimilating now
- Wales compared to Scottish Highlands, Ireland and Brittany
- industry: mining and slate
- language: notes Wales has conserved its language
- politics:
- English attempts to assimilate the Welsh have often backfired
- Welsh rebellions, chartism, Rebecca riots
- terrain:
- semi-wild species of animals on rocky land
- terrain isolates the Welsh from the Saxons
- extracts originally published in Revue des Deux Mondes
- English translation: The Rural Economy of England, Scotland and Ireland. Trans. A Scottish Farmer. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1855. Print.
- click here to read the full account in French
Nationality of traveller
French
Language of publication
French; translations: English
Gender of traveller
Male
Type of publication
agricultural study; essay
Citation
Laverngne, Léonce de. Essai sur l’économie rurale et l’Angleterre de l’Ecosse et de l’Irlande. 3rd edn. 1854. Paris : Guillaumin, 1858. 316-28. Print.