Life
fl.1795-96; [Jacques Louis de Bourgenet; Chevalier de Latocnaye; var.
De La Tocnaye]; Breton aristocrat and émigré in 1791; toured
Ireland in 1795-96; author of A Frenchman’s Walk through Ireland
1796-97 (1st edn. 1917); see Constantia Maxwell, Strangers in Ireland
(1954), p.189ff. O’Connor quotes Frenchman’s Walk on
peasant hospitality; also cited in Frank O’Connor’s Book
of Ireland (1967 & edns.).
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Works
John Stevenson, trans., A Frenchman’s Walk Through Ireland, 1796-97
[1st edn. 1917] , intro. by John Gamble (Belfast: Blackstaff 1985),
308pp. [ltd. edn. of 50 copies in slipcase].
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Criticism
Constantia Maxwell, Strangers in Ireland (1954); cites his Promenade
dans la Grande Bretagne (1795).
Denis Ireland, From an Irish Shore (1930), pp.113-118.
Frank O’Connor, ed., A Book of Ireland (London: Collins 1959, & Edns.), contains quotations from A Frenchman’s Walk Through
Ireland, 1796-97 (1917)
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Notes
On Irish round towers: ‘Whatever these ancient buildings may have
been, the Irish have now for them the greatest possible veneration’, cited from Stevenson, trans, 1917, in P. J. Kavanagh, Voices in Ireland,
1994, p.11.
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