… ‘two hundred women’, ‘all being in the state of nature’. 2 Using a common trope in travel-writing, that of cultural comparison, she cleverly relocates British sociable values – virtue, politeness, modesty and civility – from British … of Philippe Pinel and the interest for Brunonian medicine in Great Britain. In an article published in the Journal de Paris in January 1790, Pinel underscored the positive psychological effect of the revolution on the imagination – … leur tour d’autres effets nuisibles sur des cœurs pusillanimes & souvent ingénieux à se tourmenter’. 11 11 . Journal de Paris, 18 janvier 1790. Helen Maria Williams’s Letters Written in France , published the same year as Burke’s …