Members of the Acadmie Franaise are invited to join us on a 6 month journey through France beginning 23 May. Following the journal written by English author and agronimist Arthur Young, we will each week review the progress of the Monsieur Young as he begins his journey in Calais on the 15th of May. We will stop by Versailles on Whitsunday and witness and participate in the celebration (courtesy of the Royal Court of France). Our journey will continue all the way south to Languedoc, then up through Aquitaine, Poitou, Touraine, and back to Versailles in the autumn before finally returning north to head home to England in early November.
In describing our journey, we will use 18th century maps and follow the route, showing various landmarks along the way, and discussing the things we see, including the impact to the economy of the late 18th century. The maps we will use were actually created by the Acadmie Royale des Sciences. Various areas of concern such as enclosures, crops, cultivation techniques, roads, architecture, poverty, attitudes, etc. will be discussed. We will also hear musical works involving the Acadmie Royale de Musique with live performances.
We are interested in your involvement in this project! If you have a particular interest concerning something along our course, we invite you to create a presentation to share with the members of the party. If you live along the route or will be visiting, we invite you to create detailed pictures that we can use to allow people to visualize our journey.You may want to discuss the history up to 1787 to set the context.
Highlights of each week will be on display in Chateau Languedoc for review by anyone that misses that particular week. We may alsoskip some weeks during the journey unless we have a lot of material to present. The reason for this is that Arthur Young stayed at some locations longer than a week, and was also briefly out of the country (in Spain during mid-July).
Please join the Acadmie Franaise if you are interested in following the journey. There will be more detail presented there than via Les Amis du Coeur. Acadmie Royale des Sciences will have more detailed information directly related to the science presented. Acadmie Royale de Musique has regular updates concerning musical performances. Please contact Duc Bedrich Panacek if you are interested in presenting material during the journey.
The first presentation will be on the 29th of May.
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updated by @bedrich-panacek: 06 Oct 2016 06:03:19AM
