CHEMINADE.

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CHEMINADE.
CHEMINADE. Journal of travels. 1803-1846. Collection of travel manuscripts, in a very legible handwriting, composed of 7 parts, cachiers of formats in-4 or in-8, green half-basin (slightly rubbed), smooth spine (Binding around 1860), modern case. Interesting collection of unpublished manuscripts, accounts of a great traveler (born on October 16, 1781 in Grenoble). The volume gathers his reports of more than thirty years of travel in Pondicherry, Ceylon, Madagascar, Italy, Holland, Martinique, and France... 1/ The first account, 64 pp., concerns his voyage to Cape Verde, the island of Bourbon, Agalegas, Pondicherry, Ceylon and Madagascar. He left Brest on March 6, 1803, aboard the frigate "L'Atalante", a frigate belonging to a fleet of several ships: "Marengo", "La Belle-Poule", "La Feuillante", "La Cote-d'Or" and "Marie-Francoise" commanded by Admiral Linois. Interesting reflections and details on the confrontations with the English ships, the prisoners, the customs of the countries, the daily life on board... "I learned since my arrival in Pondicherry that the helmsman who had fallen overboard had done so voluntarily, that having been ordered to receive 90 strokes of rope when he was about to be tied to the capstan, which is the place where the punishment takes place, he had thrown himself overboard. They returned to Brest on December 5, 1804. 2/ Journey to Italy, made from October 21, 1828 to October 18, 1829. 312 pp. Cheminade stops in Genoa "a city that contains an infinite number of palaces, each more beautiful than the next" (10 pp.), then visits Tuscany at length: Pisa, Livorno, Lucca, Pistoia, Florence (8 pp.), Castiglione, Cortona and Perugia. In the south, he visits Foligno, whose "inhabitants like all those of the States of the Pope have bad mine, they seem unhappy, everywhere many beggars"... 3) Journey in the north of France and in Belgium in 1832. 110 pp. "One of the inhabitants of this village, who is both an innkeeper and a naturalist, has a very curious natural history cabinet - zoology, minerals, shells. He is the one who dissected the whale that ran aground on the coast of Ostend on October 9, 1827 (...) In Belgium and particularly in Flanders, the inhabitants indulge themselves in the leisure of the game of the bow with arrows or with the harquebus...". 4) Journey in Holland, Prussia, Baden and Switzerland. 1840. 96 pp. "In a certain number of houses, there is a door that is never opened more than 3 times in a lifetime: at the birth of someone in the family, at a wedding, at a death". 5) 1815. 19 pp. On April 29, 1815, Cheminade left St. Pierre de Martinique on Captain Venier's three-masted ship "L'Albane", bound for Le Havre de Grace. "As at the time of departure from St. Pierre there had been no news from France for quite some time, I left the colony with concern fearing some new war with the English (...). We passed within earshot of a French three-masted ship warmly inviting our captain to send a boat on board - that he had news of the utmost importance to communicate to us for the safety of our persons and cargo (...) He informed us that Bonaparte had landed on the first of March on the coast of France with 1,000 to 1,200 men (...) that on March 20 he had entered Paris...". 6) 1815 to 1846. 52 pp. describing Cheminade's travels, including a trip to the Dauphiné (21 pp.). 7) 1836. Various trips in France - Alps, Midi, Pyrenees etc. 154 pp. Also contains: MANDAR (Father). Description of the Grande-Chartreuse. 6 pp., one folding plate and mention: "Brother Jean Marie gave me this piece with the engraving of the convent. October 20, 1824".
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