Share
The Letters of Peter Le Page Renouf (1822-97): V. 2: Besancon (1846-1854): V. 2: Besancon (1846-1854)
Cathcart, Kevin J. (Author)
·
University College Dublin Press
· Hardcover
The Letters of Peter Le Page Renouf (1822-97): V. 2: Besancon (1846-1854): V. 2: Besancon (1846-1854) - Cathcart, Kevin J.
£ 42.30
£ 47.00
You save: £ 4.70
Choose the list to add your product or create one New List
✓ Product added successfully to the Wishlist.
Go to My WishlistsIt will be shipped from our warehouse between
Monday, May 13 and
Tuesday, May 14.
You will receive it anywhere in United Kingdom between 1 and 3 business days after shipment.
Synopsis "The Letters of Peter Le Page Renouf (1822-97): V. 2: Besancon (1846-1854): V. 2: Besancon (1846-1854)"
Sir Peter le Page Renouf (1822-97), a Guernseyman, was described by Lord Acton as "the most learned Englishman I know". The remarkable collection of his surviving letters, to be published in four volumes by University College Dublin Press between 2002 and 2004, covers Renouf's varied career from his days as a student in Oxford, his time as a lecturer in the 1850s at the new Catholic University in Dublin until after his retirement as Keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities at the British Museum. The letters in volume 2 cover Renouf's years as Tutor to the son of the Comte de Vaulchier in France and, from 1850, there are frequent trips to Switzerland. People and places are vividly described in his letters to his family. The letters of 1848 are particularly interesting on account of the revolution. Through the Comte de Vaulchier he had come to know Adolphe de Circourt, Lamartine's friend, and he was kept well informed about the political situation as it developed. He was preoccupied with politics again in 1851 and for a time helped the Comte, who was a liberal and well-educated man, to edit Union France-Comte, the provincial newspaper of Franche-Comte.
- 0% (0)
- 0% (0)
- 0% (0)
- 0% (0)
- 0% (0)
All books in our catalog are Original.
The book is written in English.
The binding of this edition is Hardcover.
✓ Producto agregado correctamente al carro, Ir a Pagar.
