Evidence: | 'The elections are coming on, and Paris is full of the strangest manifestoes from this or the other candidate. Some − mostly the Republicans − simply state their name, and that they have been one of the majority turned out by the Marshal.
The others, the so-called Conservatives − have a big poster of statements here and there, backwards and forwards, some of them about the the Marshal’s policy. It is altogether a curious spectacle for an Englishman [...]'
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | Until: 10 Oct 1877 | ||||||||||
Country: | France | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Paris | ||||||||||
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Reader: | Robert Louis Stevenson |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 13 Nov 1850 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Writer |
Religion: | Uncommitted |
Country of origin: | Scotland |
Country of experience: | France |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Record ID: | 27500 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Robert Louis Stevenson | |
Editor: | Bradford A. Booth | |
Title: | The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July 1879 | |
Place of Publication: | New Haven and London | |
Date of Publication: | 1994 | |
Vol: | 2 | |
Page: | 223 | |
Additional comments: | Letter 485, To his Father, [10 October 1877], Maison Lavenue, Rue du Depart, Paris. The foregoing material in square brackets has been added by the editors. |
Citation: | Robert Louis Stevenson, Bradford A. Booth (ed.), The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, April 1874-July 1879 (New Haven and London, 1994), 2, p. 223, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=27500, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
RLS is referring, during a political crisis of the French Third Republic, to his sightings of public preparations by the candidates, after the dismissal by royalist President MacMahon of moderate republican Prime Minister Jules Simon, in the elections of 14 October 1877, which would be won by the Republicans. |
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