Hôtel d'Angleterre at Calais (The) [ Institutions / Residences & Lodgings ]
… called the Hôtel d'Angleterre, because it was opened, in some measure, by the liberality of some Englishman of rank and fashion, in consequence of the very grievous hardships imposed upon Mons. Dessin, by the proprietor of the Silver Lion, … to the new genre of the novel. On the one hand, the episodic descriptions of sociable human interaction promoted the fashionable sentimentalism with its focus on emotions, 9 inviting readers to observe this form of interaction; on the …
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