French Memories Of Eighteenth Century America Classic Reprint

Author : Frank Monaghan
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780331417746
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book French Travellers in the United States, 1765-1932 written by Frank Monaghan and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-19 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from French Travellers in the United States, 1765-1932: A Bibliography It was enthusiasm rather than bitterness that prejudiced the minds of French travellers to America during the eighteenth century; and during the early years of the nineteenth century many of the travellers were refugees who had found an asylum in the United States and whose writings were colored by this sentiment of gratitude. America was the object of the admiration, even veneration, of French liberals during the nineteenth century, as it was the recipient of the vituperative attacks of the French Royalists. On the whole, however, the French travellers maintained a more judicious, and often sympathetic, attitude toward the United States. It was this that caused Henry T. Tuckerman to make the following comment: The social character, the more versatile experience of American life, assimilate it in a degree, and externally, with that of France, and the climate of America develops nervous sensibility; while the exigencies of life foster an adaptive facility, which brings the anglo-american into more intelligent relations with the Gallic nature than is possible for a people so egotistic and stolid as the English to realize. But this partial sympathy does not altogether account for the French understanding America better: that is owing to a more liberal, a less prejudiced, a more chivalric spirit; to quicker sympathies, to more scientific proclivities, to greater candor and humanity among her thinkers. They are far enough removed in life and character to catch the true moral perspective and they have few, if any, wounds of self-love to impede their sense of justice to a country wherewith their own history is often congenially and honorably associated. 3 This was written by Tuckerman during the American Civil War and his opinion had been influenced by contemporary British criticisms of America as well as by the attitude of the French Liberals toward the Civil War. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.