Gleanings in Europe (Registro nro. 118025)
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| Original cataloging agency | UtSlPG |
| 041 #7 - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
| Source of code | iso639-1 |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | DC |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Cooper, James Fenimore, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1789-1851 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Gleanings in Europe |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2025 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource : |
| Other physical details | multiple file formats |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
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| Media type term | computer |
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| Carrier type term | online resource |
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| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Release date is 2025-11-23 |
| 508 ## - CREATION/PRODUCTION CREDITS NOTE | |
| Creation/production credits note | Richard Tonsing, Emmanuel Ackerman, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "Gleanings in Europe" by James Fenimore Cooper is a collection of travel letters written in the early 19th century. It offers an American’s keen, often humorous view of European life—especially in Paris—blending encounters with notable figures, portraits of manners, arts, and institutions, and sharp comparisons among French, English, and American habits.<br/><br/>The opening of this travelogue follows the narrator in Paris as he receives an unexpected call from Sir Walter Scott, breakfasts with him, discusses authorship and copyright, and sketches Scott’s character, before observing Parisian salons and the city’s casual “lionizing.” The narrative broadens into reflections on French misconceptions about America (and American misconceptions about France), illustrated by translation blunders and social anecdotes. He tours a grand exhibition at the Louvre, judging France weak in practical tools but unrivaled in luxury arts, and vividly describes Sèvres porcelain, Gobelins tapestry, Savonnerie and Beauvais work, velvet-effect wall papers, the transfer of paintings from wood to canvas, and Charles X’s coronation coach—then urges the United States to invest in a navy and a national gallery to cultivate taste. He contrasts French and English manners and physiques, assesses the French army’s strengths, and wryly notes the politics of the Académie française while praising France’s scientific prowess and musing on astronomy’s humbling scope. The section closes with theatre-going—admiring Mlle. Mars, questioning the morals of a sentimental hit—and a glance at Europe’s fashion for publishing and the stronger, more varied European press. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | Philadelphia: Carey, Lea and Blanchard, 1836 |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | France -- Description and travel |
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| Uncontrolled term | France -- Social life and customs -- 19th century |
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| Uncontrolled term | Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851 -- Travel -- France |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433066581178&view=1up&seq=7&skin=2021">https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433066581178&view=1up&seq=7&skin=2021</a> |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77305">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77305</a> |
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