Four French travelers in nineteenth-century Cuba.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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9780820488301

Four French travelers in nineteenth-century Cuba.

Joseph, Yvon.

Peter Lang Publishing Inc

2008

277 pages

$75.95

Hardcover

Caribbean studies; v.19

F1763

They came armed with preconceived notions and the conviction that they were worthy of assessing the society and culture of a land which did not have the good fortune to be French. Masse, de Hauranne, Ampere and Granier de Cassagnac came to Cuba in the grand tradition of travel writing, which reached its apex in the nineteenth century, participated in every cultural ...

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