Grand Tour [ Mobility / Education ]
… This included riding, fencing and dancing, which honed graceful and confident posture, gesture and deportment, and language skills, which were crucial for conversation. French in particular was the ‘lingua franca’ across the European courts and learned societies, and back in Britain amongst the Francophone elite. Without competency in this language, effective participation in fashionable eighteenth-century sociability was extremely difficult (Ansell 111-113). … Eighteenth-Century England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997). Bohls, Elizabeth, Women Travel Writers and the Language of Aesthetics, 1716-1818 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995). Boutier, Jean, ‘Le Grand Tour : une …
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