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Record Number: 28994


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I am reading up the Camisards and shall go a walk in the scene of their wars, the Hautes Cévennes.'

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

Between Jul 1878 and Aug 1878

Country:

France

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Montargis
county: Loiret

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:

unknown unknown

Title:

[Books on Camisards]

Genre:

Other religious, History

Form of Text:

Unknown

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

28994

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:

263

Additional Comments:

Letter 547, To his Mother, [Late August 1878], [Montargis]. Co-editor Ernest Mehew. 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. 263, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=28994, accessed: 29 March 2024


Additional Comments:

The Camisards were French Protestant peasants of the Cévennes region of France who rebelled against harsh repression and persecutions suffered on account of their religion in the years that followed the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685.

   
   
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