A Tour through some parts of France, Switzerland, Savoy, Germany and Belgium

A tour through some parts of
France, Switzerland, Savoy,
Germany and Belgium

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Title: A tour through some parts of France, Switzerland, Savoy,
Germany and Belgium
Author: Richard Boyle Bernard
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A TOUR THROUGH SOME PARTS OF FRANCE, SWITZERLAND,

SAVOY, GERMANY AND BELGIUM, DURING THE SUMMER
AND AUTUMN OF 1814.

BY THE HON. RICHARD BOYLE BERNARD, M.P.

Majora minorane famæ! HOR. Say are they less or greater than report!
London:
PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN.
PATER NOSTER-ROW;
1815.
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HARVARD AND FARLEY, Skinner Street, London
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TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE REGENT.
SIR,
Permit me to offer my most respectful thanks to Your Royal Highness,
for the honor you have conferred upon me, by permitting the following
pages to be inscribed to Your Royal Highness.
I beg at the same time to express my congratulations to Your Royal
Highness on the late glorious events, which have distinguished Your
Royal Highness's Government, which have restored to England the
blessings of universal Peace, and will render the present æra ever
memorable in History.
I have the Honor to be, With the highest Respect, Sir, Your Royal
Highness's Obliged and most obedient Servant,
R.B. BERNARD.
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PREFACE.
Had the following Pages required the exertion either of superior
judgment, or of abstruse research, the Author is not sufficiently vain to
have submitted them to the notice of the Public.
They are therefore not recommended to the perusal of the critical reader;
as in fact, they contain merely the hasty observations suggested by the
scenes he visited in the course of his Tour, together with a few
occasional remarks, which he thought might be acceptable to the
generality of readers: since notwithstanding the late increase of
travellers, the numbers are still very great, who, being prevented by

business, or deterred by the inconveniences of travelling, from visiting
the Continent, might be disposed to pardon some inaccuracies, should
they meet with a small portion either of amusement or information.

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CONTENTS.
CHAP. I. PAGE
Introduction--On the opening of the Continent--Departure from
London--Arrival in France--Different appearance of Things-Large
Bonnets--Custom House and Passports--Of Travelling in
France--French Dinners--Abbeville--Beauvais--Vines--Chantilly; its
ruined Appearance--St. Denis and its Abbey 1
CHAP. II.
Of the Approach to Paris--General Appearance of that City--Its
Bridges--Is inferior in Comfort to London--Settled at an
Hotel--Population of Paris--Its Markets--Badly supplied with
Water--Of its various Divisions and their Inhabitants--Palais
Royal--Gamblers--Police--English Papers--Rule to find one's Way
through Paris--The Tuilleries--The Louvre--Plans of Improvement 19
CHAP. III.
Visit to the Gallery of The Louvre and Museum--To the
Luxemburg--To the Royal Library--To the Palais des Beaux Arts--To
the Church of Notre Dame--To the Pantheon--Protestant Church and
Congregation--Of the Number of English in Paris--Column in the Place
Vendôme--Gobelin Manufactory--Post Office--Botanic Garden--Lady
and her Dog--Story of Dr. Moore--Of the Character of the
Parisians--Their Loquacity--Of the Legislative Body--Heat of the
Weather--Champs Elysées--Quarter of St. Antoine--Of the
Revolution--Of the Boulevards--Of the Restaurateurs--Of Ladies
frequenting Coffee-houses, &c. 39
CHAP. IV.
The Invalides--Elevation of different Buildings--Buonaparte desirous
of Eclat--Champ de Mars--Place de Grenelle--Of the Plan of General
Mallet and his Execution--Visit to the Museum of French
Monuments--Infidelity of its Promoters--Of Colbert--Gardens of
Tivoli--Great Numbers of Military Officers in Public Places--Of the
Capture of Paris by the Allies--View of Paris from Montmartre--Vanity

of the French--Their Love of Novelty--The Emperor Alexander's Entry
into Paris--Of the Establishment of M. Delacroix--At the Tuilleries--Of
the King--His Regard for England--France still unsettled--Advice of
Galba to Piso--Curious Glass Stair Case--Of the French Theatres, and
their Italian Opera--Number of Bureau d'Ecrivains. 61
CHAP. V.
Visit to the Royal Palaces--St. Cloud--St.
Cyr--Malmaison--Versailles--Its Formality--Accuracy of Pope's
Description of the Old Style of Decoration--Comparison of Windsor
and Versailles--City of Versailles greatly
reduced--Trianon--Sèvres--Porcelain Manufactory--Barrier of
Passy--Of the Harvest--Castle of Vincennes--Few private Carriages at
Paris--Great Numbers of Fiacres and Cabriolets--Attend at the Foreign
Office for Passports to leave Paris--Arrive at
Fontainebleau--Memorable for the Abdication of
Buonaparte--Reflections on the Captivity and Character of the
Pope--Reflections on Buonaparte--At Montereau; Battle near the
Town--Sens--Auxerre--Description of the French Diligence--Dinners,
&c. 79
CHAP. VI.
At Avalon--Public Promenades--Number of Beggars--Villages and