Month: September 2025

Revisiting a Beloved Cathedral

When Julia’s brother Avery joined her in Paris in the autumn of 1898, they had the pleasure of visiting together some of the sites she had seen on her arrival two years before. This included Rouen’s. . .

Sightseeing Despite Primitive Conditions

Julia first visited Rouen in June 1896, while traveling with three girlfriends. She then wrote to her cousins about its “squalid dirtiness.” In her rudimentary French. . .