compiledbyPatrickpollard from The Traveller's
Conversational Handbook by MADAME DE GENLIS . first published in four languages in 1804,withAnthony wrote it for those rich and reckless enough to go on the Grand Tour of Europe. But her Handbook is not simply an ancestor of the modern tourist's phrase-book. She wrote dialogue to cover any eventuality in early
19th-century travel. It is amusing and absurd-but then so is the predicament of any traveller who cannot speak the language.
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