# French life in town and country

Author: Lynch, Hannah, 1859-1904; Dawson, William Harbutt, 1860-1948 [Editor]

Genre: Category: Travel Writing

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68469

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=French+life+in+town+and+country+Lynch&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Among the nations of the earth there exists no more striking contrast than that between the people of Paris and the people of France. While the capital is a political furnace, where all sorts of conflicting ideas and opinions are continually boiling with such a rage of effervescence that the inhabitants, unaccustomed to the sense of calm and security, work, dance, and rest on the brink of an ever-menacing revolution; in the provinces town life drags through its monotonous days, absorbed in dull provincial interests, and rural life knows no other changes or menaces than those of the seasons. We distribute to each race certain broad characteristics, and trace out for them in all circumstanc...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/french-life-in-town-and-country-68469/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/french-life-in-town-and-country-68469/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/french-life-in-town-and-country-68469/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/french-life-in-town-and-country-68469/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/french-life-in-town-and-country-68469/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/french-life-in-town-and-country-68469/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/french-life-in-town-and-country-68469/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/french-life-in-town-and-country-68469/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/french-life-in-town-and-country-68469/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/french-life-in-town-and-country-68469/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/french-life-in-town-and-country-68469/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/french-life-in-town-and-country-68469/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/french-life-in-town-and-country-68469/chapters/1/index.md)