Julia and Avery were in Rouen in the fall of 1898, during the Foire de Saint Romain (The St. Romain Fair), which has been held in late October and early November for more than 500 years. It honors the city’s. . .
Category: Travel
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. . .
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. . .
With Avery as her companion, Julia could explore Europe during their summer breaks. They considered different modes of transport, as she explained. . .
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