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In April 1788, James Buller ‘took a long walk on the boulevards’ in Paris. In the course of this he ‘saw the Bastile. Very strong building and the most dreadful place I ever could conceive. Almost hid from the town in every point of view, as if the people themselves were ashamed of a monument so disgraceful to humanity.’1
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Piggott to Burges, 8 October 1789, Bod. Bland Burges, vol. 18 fol. 71. For tourist experiences, Lady Eastlake (ed.), Letters from France etc. in 1789 (1880).
S. Cottrell, English Views of France and the French, 1789–1815 (DPhil, Oxford, 1969); M. Rapport, Nationality and Citizenship in Revolutionary France: the Treatment of Foreigners 1789–1799 (Oxford, 2000).
S. Weston, Two Sketches of France, Belgium, and Spa in Two Tours, during the summers of 1771 and 1816 (1817). For a letter from his first tour, Weston to Benjamin Kennicott, 2 September 1771, Beinecke, Osborn File 39.372; James Mure to George Jardine, 8 April 1821, Selections from the Papers Preserved at Caldwell (Glasgow, 1854), II, ii, 380–96.
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Black, J. (2003). Revolution. In: France and the Grand Tour. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230287242_15
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