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- The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume II Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia Thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &c. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts.
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The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume II Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia Thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &c. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts.
by Freiherr von Karl Ludwig Pöllnitz
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THE MEMOIRS OF CHARLES-LEWIS, Baron de Pollnitz.
MEMOIRS OF THE Baron de Pollnitz. In SEVERAL LETTERS to Mr. L. C. D. S. - LETTER XXVIII.
LETTER XXIX.
LETTER XXX.
LETTER XXXI.
LETTER XXXII.
LETTER XXXIII.
LETTER XXXIV.
LETTER XXXV.
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The work unfolds as a series of letters addressed to a close friend, in which the baron recounts his Grand Tour of Europe during the early 1730s. His prose balances the grandeur of papal Rome with the humbler alleys that surround it, offering a keen eye for both monumental architecture and the everyday bustle of markets, churches, and fountains. Readers are drawn into the triangular piazza of the Gate del Popoli, the bustling Corso lined with noble palaces, and the stark contrast between opulent squares and neighboring hovels.
Beyond Italy, the correspondence moves through the courts of Prussia, the bustling streets of Paris, the canals of Holland, and the lively taverns of England. In each stop the baron sketches not only the state of the cities but also the personalities that animate them—diplomats, artists, and merchants whose manners reveal the temperament of their nations. His observations capture a continent on the cusp of modernity, making the volume a vivid snapshot of early‑eighteenth‑century European life.
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The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume II Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia Thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &c. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia Thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &c. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts.
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en
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~15 hours (871K characters)
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Project Gutenberg
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Produced by Robert Connal, Henry Gardiner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr)
Release date
2012-01-05
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
About the author
Freiherr von Karl Ludwig Pöllnitz
1692–1775
An 18th-century court insider with a taste for adventure, this writer turned a wandering life into lively memoirs. His books offer a sharp, often gossipy window into the people and power games of Europe's royal courts.
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