A Trip to Paris in July and August 1792

A traveler recounts a journey from Calais to Paris and its environs during the Revolution, combining practical travel notes with eyewitness descriptions of urban life, inns, dress, currency, and public institutions. The narrative records changes in social rank and manners, improvements in cleanliness and dress, and the widespread use of assignats and tokens. It intersperses observations on theatres, gardens and botany, local curiosities, and oddities, with direct reporting of political violence such as public executions, fighting at the Tuileries, toppled statues, and newly adopted names and symbols.