TRAVELS

IN THE

KINGDOM OF FRANCE.

10625
PARSONS LIBE

University of

VEHS

TRAVE

DURING

THE YEARS 1787, 1788 AND 1789,

Undertaken more particularly with a View of afcertaining the
CULTIVATION, WEALTH, RESOURCES, AND

NATIONAL PROSPERITY,

OF THE

KINGDOM OF FRANCE.

KINGDOM OF FRANC

TO WHICH IS ADDED, THE

REGISTER OF A TOUR INTO SPAIN.

BY ARTHUR YOUNG, ESQ. F.R.S.

Honorary Member of the Societies of DUBLIN, BATH, YORK, SALFORD
and ODIHAM; the Philofophical and Literary Society of MANCHES-
TER; the Veterinary College of LONDON; the Oeconomical

Society of BERNE; the Phyúcal Society of Zurich; the
Palatine Academy of Agriculture at MANHEIM; the
Imperial Oeconomical Society established at PETERS-

BURGH; Affociate of the Royal Society at PA-
RIS; and Correfponding Member of the

Royal Academy of Agriculture at
FLORENCE; and of the Patrio-

tic Society at MILAN.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

DUBLIN:

PRINTED FOR MESSRS. R. CROSS, P. WOGAN, L. WHITE,

P. BYPNE, A. GRUEPER, J. MOORE, J. JONES,
A. JONES, W. M'KENZIE, AND J. RICE.

1793.

PREFACE.

IT is a question whether modern history has any thing more curious to offer to the attention of the politician, than the progrefs and rivalship of the French and English empires, from the ministry of Colbert to the revolution in France. In the courfe of those 130 years, both have figured with a degree of fplendour that has attracted the admiration of mankind.

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