| Authorship Notes |
This chapter of Crousaz's first work of pedagogy is a satire on the way noblemen travel in the form of a parodied apodemic text in which the aim is to make the experience of travel as useless as possible. Thus, Crousaz suggests avoiding seeing famous or eminent people in favour of ladies; and defines the desired length of stay in a town depending on the number of opportunities it affords the young man to wear new outfits in society.
In this text, Crousaz provides no serious advice for travels - those appeared in the chapter 'Des Voyages' in his later work, 'Traité de l'éducation des enfants' (1722), described elsewhere in this database.
The earlier piece ('Des Voyages', 1718) also appeared in English translation as âOf Travellingâ in âNew Maxims Concerning the Education of Youthâ, trans. Rev. George Stephen Tacheron (London, 1740), pp. 141-49. |
