laurence sterne a sentimental journey through france and italy

With his newfound prosperity, the servant buys flashy clothes, looking and acting like a fop, a dandy, enjoying his rise in the nation of class consciousness. A valet La Fleur sometimes helps or hinders his master the Englishman, being employed in Calais.

Speaking about life stimulated the writer especially the ladies. Meeting aristocrats the Count de Bissy disguised here as are others, a lover of English literature, he is flattered the nobleman has a copy of Tristram Shandy on his desk before he knew who the visitor was.other royals Mr.Sterne sees yet talking to beautiful women was more thrilling. However the innkeeper Monsieur Pierre Dessein was real and in fact became wealthy by his being named in the publication. Francis asking for alms proven later the monk was fictitious as the order bars this.

A friend warned him more money was needed. Thus Mr.Sterne a noted wit, was a generous man unlike his fellow countrymen which kept him carefully counting British pounds. Writers back then are not wealthy a limited amount of income most need a second job, he is a clergyman in the Anglican Church yet a volatile person. On the French side of the English channel the inhabitants are always with their hands out. Arriving in Calais from England, a celebrity in his day Tristram Shandy, is nonsensical but brilliant I understand, have the volume and will read soon. Not to worry friends it was very popular in 1768 and amusing, travel books were quite in vogue then since in that era half the planet was unexplored and people are curious, still are.

A book without a plot this 18th century story is a travel novel written by Laurence Sterne as he crosses France and never actually gets to Italy which makes the title a misnomer.

Laurence sterne a sentimental journey through france and italy