A briefe description of what I have seen most remarquable in France, [1656].

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A briefe description of what I have seen most remarquable in France, [1656].

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Manuscript, on paper, in a single secretary hand of a travel narrative relating Cope's observations and experiences during an 18-month sojourn in France. Following some careful general notes on French geography and history, Cope details his journey to Paris, where he toured the principal cathedrals, palaces, public buildings and parks. He viewed the Carnival observances and attended services at the Jesuit church in St. Germain, hearing a sermon "against the protestant religion, and....cheifly against the English nation" which was also attended by "the English queene." Cope then traveled through Orleans to Saumur, where he lived and studied for a year. He calls it "a very little Citty....but one of the most agreeable in France" and carefully describes landscapes, gardens, bridges and buildings, the politeness of its citizens, and local pastimes such as golf, tennis and squittles [skittle]. He also took excursions to sites such as Richelieu's palace at Champigny, and lived for some months in Angers, which he found "stuffd with churches." Cope returned to England via Paris and Rotterdam. Dedicatory preface to "the right honourable my most deare mother the Lady Elizabeth Cope," offering her this volume as "speciall testimony of his duty."

1 v. (90 p.) ; 14 x 8 cm.

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