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Travels Through France and Italy by Tobias Smollett Book Review
This epistolary travelogue from 1763 is absolutely littered with dyno droppings.
Smollett shreds the French. It’s funny and pleasing to read about Pepe Le Pew.
Way too much dollar cost averaging in this man’s journal. He reports the price of everything; food, travel, and provisions. Quoting prices in loui’dours and half-pence-six, you don’t have the foggiest notion of exchange rate.
Tell me in petro dollars, greenbacks, or t-bills.
Smollett is ill, he’s told to leave England for warmer climes in France.
He’s bitter, he wears a periwig, sometimes without powder. His trusted servant sits atop hired post-chaise. He travels with his wife. Everything is taxed and searched on entering French.
His books are taken from him by border protection people. They must be reviewed for distasteful terrorism tracts and conspiracy facts.
After many letters written to high-up lizard people, his books are returned.
Everything is searched again in Montpelier. A tip of two-pence-six will relieve any difficulties you have with border control. Continue on your way, s’il vous plaît.
We pass through vineyards while French peasants are bringing in the vintage. They are poor, dirty, and French.
The surroundings of Nice are beautiful, subterranean aqueducts and caveman complex of great antiquity. (So-called ROMAN)
Cicisbeo is a male escort for nobless. The mistress and wife get along great.
You get several hundred pound sterling per annum for being noble, this place is a dream.
Take me to Nice.
I am noble.
God bless The French.
God bless Tobias Smollett.
God bless the Limey Brits.
From my calculations, Nice is half the cost of living when compared to London, however, you have to put up with the swarthy French.
They are poor, dirty, and French.
Continue on your way, s’il vous plaît.
Herein are his letters, reported back to English society on his journey hither and thither, FRANCE, ITALY, ROME, Grand Tour, circa 1763 Gregorian.
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Highlight: The death of his beloved daughter Elizabeth, who was only fifteen, in April 1763 spurred Smollett to leave England in the June of that year and his ensuing travels which included travelling across France and visiting Genoa, Florence and Rome before returning to Nice for the winter, form the basis of this book.
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Notes: Lol 33~ same lizard person
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Highlight: We were afterwards rowed a long league, in a rough sea, against wind and tide, before we reached the harbour, where we landed, benumbed with cold, and the women excessively sick: from our landing-place we were obliged to walk very near a mile to the inn where we purposed to lodge, attended by six or seven men and women,
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Highlight: If a foreigner dies in France, the king seizes all his effects, even though his heir should be upon the spot; and this tyranny is called the droit d’aubaine founded at first upon the supposition, that all the estate of foreigners residing in France was acquired in that kingdom, and that, therefore, it would be unjust to convey it to another country.
Notes: Do not die in France.
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Notes: Ask Circe.
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Notes: Covid vaccine safe and effective.
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Highlight: There is likewise a fountain of excellent water, hard by the cathedral, in the Upper Town, from whence I am daily supplied at a small expence.
Notes: Pay for clean water.
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Highlight: True it is, the only profane diversions of this place are a puppet-show and a mountebank; but then their religion affords a perpetual comedy.
Notes: Smart phone, ripoff, comedy hour.
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Highlight: the Roman catholics, not content with the infinite number of saints who really existed, have not only personified the cross, but made two female saints out of a piece of linen. Veronique, or Veronica, is no other than a corruption of vera icon, or vera effigies, said to be the exact representation of our Saviour’s face, impressed upon a piece of linen,
Notes: Shroud of turin is a she.
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Notes: Check google fr speech allowance and community guidelines.
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Highlight: The pomp and ceremonies of this religion, together with the great number of holidays they observe, howsoever they may keep up the spirits of the commonalty, and help to diminish the sense of their own misery, must certainly, at the same time, produce a frivolous taste for frippery and shew, and encourage a habit of idleness, to which I, in a great measure, ascribe the extreme poverty of the lower people.
Notes: Roman religion.
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Highlight: As they seldom eat meat, their juices are destitute of that animal oil which gives a plumpness and smoothness to the skin, and defends those fine capillaries from the injuries of the weather, which would otherwise coalesce, or be shrunk up, so as to impede the circulation on the external surface of the body.
Notes: Not to vegan.
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Notes: Lead poison fluride treatment.
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Highlight: but this I will be bold to affirm, that France is the general reservoir from which all the absurdities of false taste, luxury, and extravagance have overflowed the different kingdoms and states of Europe.
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Highlight: The present fashion, therefore, of painting the face, and adorning the head, adopted by the beau monde in France, is taken from those two polite nations the Chickesaws of America and the Hottentots of Africa.
Notes: paint face
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Notes: Farming subsidies.
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Notes: Protect terrorism racket.
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Notes: Ask Circe
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Highlight: We set out from Lyons early on Monday morning, and as a robbery had been a few days before committed in that neighbourhood, I ordered my servant to load my musquetoon with a charge of eight balls. By the bye, this piece did not fail to attract the curiosity and admiration of the people in every place through which we passed.
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Highlight: In examining the bodies of those that were killed in the battle, the inhabitants of Nice perceived, that a great number of the Spanish soldiers were circumcised; a circumstance, from which they concluded, that a great many Jews engage in the service of his Catholic majesty.
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Notes: FBI and law enforcement at door for rejecting pandemic hoax.
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Highlight: All the vineyards and garden-grounds, for a considerable extent, are vaulted underneath; and all the ground that produces their grapes, fruit, and garden-stuff, is no more than the crumpled lime and rubbish of old Roman buildings, mixed with manure brought from Nice.
Notes: Ancient structures obliterated in lizard war.
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Highlight: With respect to religion, I may safely say, that here superstition reigns under the darkest shades of ignorance and prejudice.
Notes: Universal face mask and techno space religion.
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Highlight: How they live in their families, I do not choose to enquire; but, in public, Madame appears in her robe of gold, or silver stuff, with her powder and frisure, her perfumes, her paint and her patches; while Monsieur Le Comte struts about in his lace and embroidery. Rouge and fard are more peculiarly necessary in this country, where the complexion and skin are naturally swarthy and yellow. I have likewise observed, that most of the females are pot-bellied; a circumstance owing, I believe, to the great quantity of vegetable trash which they eat.
Notes: Pot bellied women on vegeatable diet.
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Highlight: With respect to delicacy and decorum, you may peruse dean Swift’s description of the Yahoos, and then you will have some idea of the porcheria, that distinguishes the gallantry of Nice.
Notes: Ask Circe.
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Notes: Male concubines. For noble women.
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Highlight: vast variety of their deities, said to amount to thirty thousand, with their respective rites of adoration, could not fail to introduce such a number of ceremonies, shews, sacrifices, lustrations, and public processions, as must have employed the people almost constantly from one end of the year to the other.
Notes: Gd Romans always celebrating hellidays.
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Notes: Commercial opportunity.
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Notes: Collect fertilizer from outhouse.
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Notes: Silk worm how to.
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Notes: Decorum reforum.
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Notes: Change surroundings.
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Notes: Climate is change.
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Highlight: In mentioning the water of this neighbourhood, I ought not to omit the baths of Rocabiliare, a small town among the mountains, about five and twenty miles from Nice.
Notes: Ask Circe.
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Highlight: The most agreeable carriage from here to Genoa, is a feluca, or open boat, rowed by ten or twelve stout mariners.
Notes: Man the oars.
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Highlight: but this effort in behalf of liberty did not succeed.
Notes: Face mask failure.
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Highlight: A murderer, adulterer, or s — m — te, will obtain easy absolution from the church, and even find favour with society; but a man who eats a pidgeon on a Saturday, without express licence, is avoided and abhorred, as a monster
Notes: Why is this word sodomite written like this? google censors everywhere.
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Highlight: A Frenchman lays out his whole revenue upon tawdry suits of cloaths, or in furnishing a magnificent repas of fifty or a hundred dishes, one half of which are not eatable nor intended to be eaten. His wardrobe goes to the fripier; his dishes to the dogs, and himself to the devil, and after his decease no vestige of him remains.
Notes: Pepi la puw
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Highlight: all that is consumed must be bought at the public cantine, where it is sold for the benefit of the state.
Notes: Walmart
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Highlight: While the English are masters of the Mediterranean, they will always have it in their power to do incredible damage all along the Riviera, to ruin the Genoese trade by sea, and even to annoy the capital; for notwithstanding all the pains they have taken to fortify the mole and the city, I am greatly deceived if it is not still exposed to the danger, not only of a bombardment, but even of a cannonade. I am even sanguine enough to think a resolute commander might, with a strong squadron, sail directly into the harbour,
Notes: English colony upstart.
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Highlight: a pretty piece of architecture: but the number of inhabitants is very inconsiderable; and this very circumstance gives it an air of majestic solitude, which is far from being unpleasant to a man of a contemplative turn of mind.
Notes: population reset. Pisa Italy 1764
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Notes: Marble stone transport. 1764
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Notes: Cicisbeo
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Notes: Red Alert
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Highlight: but, certain it is, every married lady in this country has her cicisbeo, or servente, who attends her every where, and on all occasions; and upon whose privileges the husband dares not encroach, without incurring the censure and ridicule of the whole community.
Notes: Cicisbeo male mistress.
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Notes: Italian stallion.
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Highlight: I assure you, upon my honour, I have no share whatever in any of the disputes which agitate the public: nor do I know any thing of your political transactions, except what I casually see in one of your newspapers,
Notes: Bingo
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Notes: Snake alert
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Notes: Covid extortion scam.
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Highlight: I mention this circumstance, by way of warning to other travellers, that they may provide themselves with a hammer and nails, a spare iron-pin or two, a large knife, and bladder of grease, to be used occasionally in case of such misfortune.
Notes: Fix postilion wagon
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Highlight: and when the bridge at Black-Friars is finished, it will be such a monument of architecture as all the world cannot parallel.
Notes: Ask Circe
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Highlight: discovered the pavement of an antient street, at the depth of thirty-nine feet from the present surface of the earth.
Notes: Mud flood.
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Notes: Periwig
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Highlight: flowers in different parts to refresh the sense, and please the fancy; for arbours, grottos, hermitages, temples, and alcoves, to shelter him from the sun, and afford him means of contemplation and repose; and he expects to find the hedges, groves, and walks, and lawns kept with the utmost order and propriety.
Notes: what to expect in garden.
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Highlight: The truth is, before the time of pope Alexander VII. the earth was so raised as to cover part of the temple, and there was a descent of some steps into the porch: but that pontiff ordered the ground to be pared away to the very pedestal or base of the portico, which is now even with the street, so that there is no descent whatsoever.
Notes: Mud flood
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Highlight: The Colossaeum was built by Vespasian, who employed thirty thousand Jewish slaves in the work; but finished and dedicated by his son Titus, who, on the first day of its being opened, produced fifty thousand wild beasts, which were all killed in the arena.
Notes: Gd romans.
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Highlight: Aegyptian statues in the Camera Aegyptiaca of this very building, are such monstrous misrepresentations of nature,
Notes: Egyptian chimera statues in Rome.
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Highlight: brought hither from a temple that stood in the Forum Boarium, now called Campo vaccine.
Notes: Campo Fema vaccine for essential roman workers.
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Highlight: The statues of the two brothers endeavouring to throw him into the sea are beautiful figures, finely contrasted; and the rope, which one of them holds in a sort of loose coil, is so surprisingly chizzelled, that one can hardly believe it is of stone.
Notes: Statues not of stone.
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Highlight: the Palazzo Barberini, there is a great collection of marbles and pictures: among the first, I was attracted by a beautiful statue of Venus; a sleeping faun, of curious workmanship; a charming Bacchus, lying on an antient sculpture, and the famous Narcissus.
Notes: Ask circe.
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Highlight: I have nothing to communicate touching the library of the Vatican, which, with respect to the apartments and their ornaments, is undoubtedly magnificent. The number of books it contains does not exceed forty thousand volumes, which are all concealed from the view, and locked up in presses: as for the manuscripts, I saw none but such as are commonly presented to strangers of our nation; some very old copies of Virgil and Terence; two or three Missals, curiously illuminated; the book De Septem Sacramentis, written in Latin by Henry VIII. against Luther;
Notes: Secret vatican library 1765
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Notes: Microwavable potato snacks.
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Notes: Elon Musk is fake AF
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Highlight: if I escaped assassination, the fears of which were the more troublesome as I had no weapon to defend our lives.
Notes: Always carry weapon.
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Highlight: my wife a delicate creature, who had scarce ever walked a mile in her life;
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Notes: Fuck you, Mark Zuckerfake.
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Highlight: I chose a Spaniard, partly because he looked like an honest man, and produced an ample certificate, signed by an English gentleman; and partly, because he was not an Italian; for, by this time, I had imbibed a strong prejudice against the common people of that country.
Notes: On choosing Spaniard over Italian.
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Notes: Snake on staff alert.
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Notes: Small slim dagger.
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Highlight: and a very ridiculous cavalcade we formed, the women being obliged to use common saddles; for in this country even the ladies sit astride.
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Highlight: As my disorder at first arose from a sedentary life, producing a relaxation of the fibres, which naturally brought on a listlessness, indolence, and dejection of the spirits, I am convinced that this hard exercise of mind and body, co-operated with the change of air and objects, to brace up the relaxed constitution, and promote a more vigorous circulation of the juices, which had long languished even almost to stagnation.
Notes: Health and safety 1765
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Highlight: when I perceive such signs of poverty, misery and dirt, among the commonalty of France, their unfenced fields dug up in despair, without the intervention of meadow or fallow ground, without cattle to furnish manure, without horses to execute the plans of agriculture; their farm-houses mean, their furniture wretched, their apparel beggarly; themselves and their beasts the images of famine; I cannot help thinking they groan under oppression, either from their landlords, or their government; probably from both.
Notes: French
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Notes: Face mask wearing FBI and Law Enforcement at your door for rejecting pandemic narrative.
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Highlight: Notwithstanding these great rains, such as were never known before at Nice in the memory of man,
Notes: Strange weather anomolies in France 1765.
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Highlight: Were I obliged to pass my life in it, I would endeavour to find a country retreat among the mountains, at some distance from the sea, where I might enjoy a cool air, free from this impregnation, unmolested by those flies, gnats, and other vermin which render the lower parts almost uninhabitable.
Notes: choose mountain hideout over beach house.
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Highlight: I had sent to Aix for a coach and four horses, which I hired at the rate of eighteen French livres a day, being equal to fifteen shillings and nine-pence sterling.
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Highlight: Those who would be further informed about the Garum and the Scomber may consult Caelius Apicius de recogninaria, cum notis, variorum.
Notes: Some sort of pickled fish commercial reference. Ask circe.
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Highlight: Last summer, some execrable villains set fire to the pines, when the wind was high. It continued burning for several months, and the conflagration extended above ten leagues, consuming an incredible quantity of timber.
Notes: Forestry service
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Highlight: The longer I live, the more I am convinced that wine, and all fermented liquors, are pernicious to the human constitution; and that for the preservation of health, and exhilaration of the spirits, there is no beverage comparable to simple water.
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Highlight: These accidents did great damage, and discouraged the French mariners to such a degree, that they became more afraid of their own guns than of those of the English.
Notes: Exploding cannons.
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Highlight: The baths of Aix, so famous in antiquity, were quite demolished by the irruptions of the barbarians. The very source of the water was lost, till the beginning of the present century (I think the year 1704), when it was discovered by accident, in digging for the foundation of a house, at the foot of a hill, just without the city wall.
Notes: Lost and found mineral waters.
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Highlight: there is a handsome obelisk, or rather pyramid, about thirty feet high, raised upon a vault supported by four pillars of the Tuscan order. It is certainly a Roman work, and Montfaucon supposes it to be a tomb, as he perceived an oblong stone jetting out from the middle of the vault, in which the ashes of the defunct were probably contained.
Notes: Vienne
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Highlight: I am at last in a situation to indulge my view with a sight of Britain, after an absence of two years; and indeed you cannot imagine what pleasure I feel while I survey the white cliffs of Dover,
Notes: return to lizard manor.
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Notes: Vaccine passport required.
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Highlight: but its weight and solidity occasioned so much friction between the wheels and the axle-tree, that we ran the risque of being set on fire three or four times a day.
Notes: Horse carriage overheat.
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Highlight: Through the whole south of France, except in large cities, the inns are cold, damp, dark, dismal, and dirty; the landlords equally disobliging and rapacious; the servants aukward, sluttish, and slothful; and the postilions lazy, lounging, greedy, and impertinent.
Notes: French.
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Highlight: And I behold a new order of people about to arise in Europe which shall give laws to lawgivers, discharges to priests, and lessons to kings.