ISBN: 9781108035361

Watkin Tench (1758-1833) was a British Marine officer who was held prisoner from 1794 to 1795 in Brittany, at the height of the French Revolution. During his imprisonment he wrote a serie… More...

Watkin Tench (1758-1833) was a British Marine officer who was held prisoner from 1794 to 1795 in Brittany, at the height of the French Revolution. During his imprisonment he wrote a series of letters to a friend in London (it is not clear whether this was genuine correspondence or a genre narrative), which was published in 1796. In them we learn of the adverse conditions he experienced on two convict hulks in Brest harbour, and his later period of parole in private lodgings in Quimper, which he recalls more favourably, as he was allowed to roam the countryside within a three-mile radius of the town. Tench's letters reveal his thoughts on the turbulence and uncertainty brought about by the revolution, and the resistance (largely inspired by religion) of the Bretons to it. This is a fascinating first-hand account of France at a time of rapid political change. Trade Books>Trade Paperback>World History>Great Britain & Ireland Hist>Great Britain Hist, Cambridge University Press Core >1<

ISBN: 9781108035361

Watkin Tench (1758-1833) was a British Marine officer who was held prisoner from 1794 to 1795 in Brittany, at the height of the French Revolution. During his imprisonment he wrote a serie… More...

Watkin Tench (1758-1833) was a British Marine officer who was held prisoner from 1794 to 1795 in Brittany, at the height of the French Revolution. During his imprisonment he wrote a series of letters to a friend in London (it is not clear whether this was genuine correspondence or a genre narrative), which was published in 1796. In them we learn of the adverse conditions he experienced on two convict hulks in Brest harbour, and his later period of parole in private lodgings in Quimper, which he recalls more favourably, as he was allowed to roam the countryside within a three-mile radius of the town. Tench''s letters reveal his thoughts on the turbulence and uncertainty brought about by the revolution, and the resistance (largely inspired by religion) of the Bretons to it. This is a fascinating first-hand account of France at a time of rapid political change. Books List_Books<

ISBN: 9781108035361

Paperback, [PU: Cambridge University Press], Watkin Tench (1758-1833) was a British Marine officer who was held prisoner for six months in 1794-5 in Brittany. These revealing letters, wri… More...

Paperback, [PU: Cambridge University Press], Watkin Tench (1758-1833) was a British Marine officer who was held prisoner for six months in 1794-5 in Brittany. These revealing letters, written by Tench to a friend in London, provide a vivid account of life in France in turbulent and uncertain times., Anthologies (non-poetry), European History, British & Irish History, Modern History To 20th Century: C 1700 To C 1900, French Revolution<

2011, ISBN: 1108035361

[EAN: 9781108035361], Neubuch, [PU: Cambridge University Press], LITERARY COLLECTIONS GENERAL, Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedru… More...

[EAN: 9781108035361], Neubuch, [PU: Cambridge University Press], LITERARY COLLECTIONS GENERAL, Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. InhaltsverzeichnisPreface Letters I-XII.KlappentextThese letters by prisoner-of-war Watkin Tench (1758-1833) provide a vivid account of Brittany in the French R, Books<

2011, ISBN: 9781108035361

Between the Month of November 1794, and the Month of May 1795, Buch, Softcover, [PU: Cambridge University Press], Cambridge University Press, 2011