Evidence: | 'Sunday morning, as I was out getting chocolate, I found two new manifestoes on the walls. One from a private person, editor of a Radical journal, calling on the people to be calm, and rest on the weight of their majority. The other, a declaration of the President’s, which made me so mad that I could have broken his head if he had been within my reach. It was written, I firmly believe, with the intention of driving on the Republicans to extremities, and shook the cat in the air with a sort of paternal menace, that must have been maddening to the Opposition.' |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | 14 Oct 1877 | ||||||||||
Country: | France | ||||||||||
Time: | morning | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Paris | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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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 |
Author: | By or on behalf of Edme-Patrice-Maurice MacMahon |
Title: | [political manifesto] |
Genre: | Politics |
Form of Text: | Print: Poster, election posters. |
Publication details: | 14 October 1877 |
Provenance: | read in situ |
Record ID: | 27584 | |
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: | 224 | |
Additional comments: | Letter 486, To his Parents, [15 October 1877], [Paris]. Co-editor Ernest Mehew. 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. 224, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=27584, accessed: 26 April 2024 |
Evidence passage refers to posters sighted by RLS in the morning of the day of the first round of the 1877 French legislative election. See Letter 485 and ID 27500. |
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