The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume II

Name: The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume II
Author: Freiherr von Karl Ludwig Pöllnitz

by Freiherr von Karl Ludwig Pöllnitz

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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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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)

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2012-01-05

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Public domain in the USA.

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Europe -- Description and travel Saxony (Germany) -- Court and courtiers

About the author

Freiherr von Karl Ludwig Pöllnitz

1692–1775

A restless Prussian baron turned his travels and courtly adventures into lively memoirs that gave readers a gossipy, wide-ranging look at 18th-century Europe. His books were prized for their vivid detail, even as readers learned to enjoy them with a little caution.

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