Helen Maria Williams [ Art and Literature / Travel ]
… and particularly British travellers to France. Williams, who soon shed any illusions she might have had with regard to Napoleon Bonaparte’s policy , 12 opened a cosmopolitan salon on the Quai Malaquais that could accommodate up to 70 … Williams stopped writing political works during the Empire, a period of strong censorship. It was not until the fall of Napoleon that British visitors were able to return to France. Although Stone’s bankruptcy in 1815 reduced Williams’s … 12 . See in particular the preface to A Narrative of the Events Which Have Taken Place in France from the Landing of Napoleon Bonaparte on the 1st of March, 1815, till the Restoration of Louis XVIII (London: John Murray, 1815). 13 . Maria …
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