Mary Browne, the daughter of a Cumberland family, was fourteen when she kept this journal of a family journey through France. She records inns, roads, churches and customs with a frank, funny eye, and is unimpressed by her French school, where the grand salle de danse turns out to be a passage for hanging up hats.
A charming child’s-eye view of Restoration France, full of the candour only a schoolgirl’s diary allows. Download the free EPUB.