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Who was Arthur Young and why did he travel in France?

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He was able to provide in his dairies close observations of the social, political and economic conditions of the French countryside as it was convulsed by violent revolution. This makes his Travels in France (1792) particularly valuable to historians.
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He was able to provide in his dairies close observations of the social, political and economic conditions of the French countryside as it was convulsed by violent revolution.

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