How well do you travel? Two 18th Century classics with different ways of seeing France

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Looking through the accounts of Smollett and Sterne, two British writers who travelled to France in the Eighteenth Century, some parts seem strangely modern: a visitor complains he has been charged the wrong rate by a taxi-driver in Nice. He finds he can’t make friends with the locals. He thinks the local economy is in a terrible state because there are so many public holidays.

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