Record Number: 28995
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'Streets of Montargis. Boulevard (if you please) de Belles Manières; streets of the Five Bridegrooms, the Ancient Palace, the Good William, the dead, of God’s Oven, the Fishery; Place of the Market of Wheat. Is not that nice?'
Century:1850-1899
Date:Between 15 Aug 1878 and 28 Aug 1878
Country:France
Timen/a
Place:Montargis
Loiret
(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: 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: Title:n/a
Genre:Other religious, History, Streetname plaques.
Form of Text:Print: Streetname plaques
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceread in situ
Public signs
Source Information:
Record ID:28995
Source: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:264
Additional Comments:
Letter 548, To W.E. Henley, [Late August 1878]. 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. 264, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=28995, accessed: 28 September 2024
Additional Comments:
Signs of street names as read and translated, or mistranslated, by RLS. Montargis is a commune of the Loiret department, about 110 km south of Paris, at the heart of the Gâtinais region.
