Friday 5 July 1844: Paris?

Are we there yet? We know Dickens left England on 2 July, and we surmise from contemporary popular routes that he would have travelled from Boulougne through Abbeville and Beauvais to Paris. We can glean further details from a letter dated 7th August to 1844 to the Count D'Orsay, in which Dickens says: We had... Continue Reading →

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