The Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century
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The introduction discusses books on the literary relations of England and France, setting out the main argument advanced in several of those volumes. The account of Channel travel says that fast steamers have brought speed without removing the chief discomfort, and that earlier travellers dreaded sea sickness. The discussion of crossing times says that sailing from Calais to Dover generally took twelve or fourteen hours and required passengers to allow for the unexpected.
The account of refugees distinguishes peaceful men of letters and diplomatists by nature who advocated temporising from people who relied only on arms and entertained wild hopes of successful insurrection. The account says that the Prince of Orange recruited soldiers and pamphleteers from the violent party as the fall of James ii. appeared imminent.
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- Charles Bastide
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- 162
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