L'Angleterre et la vie anglaise

Name of traveller

Alphonse Esquiros (1812-1876)

Reason for travel

• political exile and living by his pen in Britain

Date of travel

undated, ca. 1850s

Il est difficile de trouver une région plus romantique : des lacs, des forêts, des chutes d’eau, des précipices, un horizon de montagnes qui ressemblent à un groupe de nuages pétrifiés. (Esquiros 17)

Content

• not written as travelogue, but is descriptive and literary
• heavily reliant on scholarly sources such as Roderick Murchison (1792-1871) on geology
• customs:
  • discussion of Wales alongside Scotland and Ireland in comparison with Brittany
  • Wales has remained separate from England in its customs, traditions and language
• industry: slate
• language: similarity between Welsh and Breton noted
• terrain:
  • romantic, particular interest in mountains and geology
  • people and their dwellings merge into landscape
• author of a guide book with broad sections on Wales: Itinéraire descriptif et historique de la Grande-Bretagne et de l'Irlande. Paris: Hachette, 1865. 182-205, 237-73. Print.
• not to be confused with his article of the same name published in the Revue des Deux Mondes (1865)

Nationality of traveller

French

Language of publication

French

Gender of traveller

Male

Type of publication

survey

Citation

Esquiros, Alphonse. L'Angleterre et la vie anglaise. Paris: Hachette, 1859. 17-32. Print.