Travels in North America in the Years 1780, 1781, and 1782

This is a definitive edition of an American classic of great literary and historical value. Chastellux, one of three major generals who accompanied Rochambeau and the French Expeditionary Forces to America, was a man of letters and a member of the French Academy. His absorbing journal is a deeply and clearly etched portrait of a country and its people. This is Volume I of two volumes.

Originally published in 1963.

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