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" (Young, 1792; as cited in Readings of European History, 1906)
Young states that he has even see a 'poor' child run over and killed by the young rich nobility who ride at fast speeds and carelessly in the streets of Paris. Young however, speaks of the countryside as an ordered and lovely place as he states: "A succession of many well-built, tight, and comfortable farming cottages, built of stone and covered with tiles; each having its little garden, enclosed by clipped thorn hedges, with plenty of peach and other fruit trees, some fine oaks scattered in the hedges, and young trees nursed up with so much care that nothing but the fostering attention of the owner could effect anything like it. To every house belongs a farm, perfectly well enclosed, with grass borders mown and neatly kept around the cornfields, with gates to pass from one enclosure." (Young, 1792; as cited in Readings of European History, 1906)
Young speaks of how the towns have within them the residences of the rich, the kings with poor ragged people all in the city and to the injustice of this he states: "What have kings, and ministers, and parliaments, and states to answer for their prejudices, seeing millions of...
Sleep at the Lion d'or, at Montauban, an abominable hole." (Young, 1792; as cited in Readings of European History, 1906) This is the focus as well of Beaumarchias as his play parodies the negligent and self-consumed life of the nobility who play with the lives of others as though they were not really human beings.
Summary and Conclusion
Each of these authors recognize and relate the complete lack of caring of the nobility for the poor peasant class while the nobility content and amuse themselves at the expense of those who are considered to be 'beneath' them economically, socially and politically. While the cities of London and Paris are playgrounds for the rich nobility, the cities are dreary, without visual appeal and dirty while the countryside bespeaks of clean and ordered living.
Bibliography
Robinson, J.H. ed (1906) Arthur Young: Travels in France. Readings in European History, Boston: Ginn 1906.
A de Beaumarchais, Pierre (1732-1799) Marriage of Figaro.
Marriage of Figaro
Bibliography
Robinson, J.H. ed (1906) Arthur Young: Travels in France. Readings in European History, Boston: Ginn 1906.
A de Beaumarchais, Pierre (1732-1799) Marriage of Figaro.
Marriage of Figaro
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