Soon after the Napoleonic Wars, Fellowes visited the abbey of La Trappe, home of the austere Trappist monks, and then toured Normandy, Brittany, Poitou, Anjou, the Bocage and Touraine. He records the monks’ way of life and the scars of the Revolution, such as the drowning of the Vendée.
A rare glimpse of post-Revolutionary France and of Trappist silence, for lovers of history and travel. Download the free EPUB.