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Record Number: 27500


Reading Experience:

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 [...]'

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

Until: 10 Oct 1877

Country:

France

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Paris

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown


Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

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

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Title:

n/a

Genre:

Politics, Manifestos and posters.

Form of Text:

Print: Broadsheet, Handbill, Newspaper, Pamphlet, Poster

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown
and posters displayed in public places.


Source Information:

Record ID:

27500

Source:

Print

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/RED/record_details.php?id=27500, accessed: 28 March 2024


Additional Comments:

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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