The Discovery of France | 
“One summer in the early 1740s, on the last day of his life, a young man from Paris became the first modern cartographer to see the mountain called Le Gerbier de Jonc.“
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“One summer in the early 1740s, on the last day of his life, a young man from Paris became the first modern cartographer to see the mountain called Le Gerbier de Jonc.“
#FridayReads #FirstLineFriday
pickThis is a delightful book which explores the cultural, linguistic, political, you name it aspect of France through the context of its “pays.” More than that, the reader can get a good feel for what daily life, traveling, working and recreation would have been like for locals of varied persuasions across centuries and regions, enlivened by stories and tidbits about life which you‘d never think of. It feels like an immersion into an alien world.
