The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 16: Depart Switzerland

A first-person travel memoir traces a journey through southern France, combining practical travel scenes with vivid social anecdote. The narrator describes arranging lodgings and introductions, attending concerts and theatres, and turning casual encounters into prolonged intimate evenings. Episodes alternate between humorous portraits of innkeepers, companions, and performers and detailed accounts of seduction, flirtation, and small deceptions. Practical passages about river passages, post-horses, and town visits are interwoven with reflections on manners, desire, and the transient alliances formed on the road as the traveler moves toward larger port cities.