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THE

STRANGER IN FRANCE:

OR,

A TOUR

FROM

DEVONSHIRE TO PARIS.

Br JOHN CARR, ESQ

PUBLIC

FIRST PUBLISHED IN LONDON, 1803.

BRATTLEBORÒ:

'PRINTED FOR ISAIAH THOMAS, JUN. WORCESTER.

William Fessenden.... printer.

1806.

H

THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY 157599

ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS.

1899.

THE little tour which gave birth to the following remarks, was taken immediately after the exchange of the ratifications of a peace, neceffary, but not inglorious to my country, after a conteft unexampled in its cause, calamity, extenfion, viciffitudes and glory ; amidst a people who, under the influence of a political change, hitherto unparalleled, were to be approached as an order of beings, exhibiting a moral and political form before but little known to themselves and to the world, in the abrupt removal of habits and fentiments which had filently and uninterruptedly taken deep root in the foil of ages.

During a feparation of ten years, we have received

very

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little account of this extraordinary people, which could be relied upon. Diffimilar fenfations, excited by their principles and proceedings, ever partially and irregularly known, have depicted unaccording reprefentations of them, and, in the fequel, have exhibited rather a high colored, fanciful delineation, than a plain and faithful refemblance of the original. Many are the perfons who have been thus mifled.

These fugitives sketches, in which an attempt is made to delineate, just as they occurred, those scenes which to my mind at least, were new and interefting, were originally penned for the private perufal of thofe whom I esteem; and by their perfuafion they are now

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