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100 1 _aMontfort, Eugène,
_d1877-1936
245 1 0 _aEn flânant de Messine à Cadix
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2025-11-20
505 0 _aLe Départ de Naples -- Voyage à Reggio de Calabre et à Messine -- Palerme -- A Capri -- Tanger -- Gibraltar -- En Andalousie: Ronda, Malaga, Grenade. Cordoue, Séville, Cadix -- Naples la Belle et les Napolitains: Antiquité de Naples. Curiosités dans les rues. Le caractère napolitain. Naples nouvelle -- Le Retour en France.
508 _aVéronique Le Bris, Laurent Vogel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica))
520 _a"En flânant de Messine à Cadix" by Eugène Montfort is a travelogue written in the early 20th century. It traces a flâneur’s Mediterranean journey from southern Italy through Sicily toward North Africa and Spain, blending lyrical landscape sketches with on-the-spot reportage and social observation, especially around the Messina–Reggio earthquake’s aftermath. The opening of the work follows the narrator leaving Naples, dreaming of reaching Tangier by sea but first taking the train through Calabria to Sicily. He watches the coastline give way to earthquake damage, then in Reggio and across the strait in Messina he confronts vast ruins, silent streets, and a provisional city of wooden barracks, with striking survivals like the Palazzata’s facades, a Neptune statue, and the intact theater. Between grim vistas and a rare oasis—a cement-built pension untouched—he listens to locals: an innkeeper explaining how people survive tremors and, in Taormina, a hotelier recounting the first days’ chaos, looting, desperate rescues, and families scattered. This section closes with renewed travel toward Palermo, the mood oscillating between awe at the landscape and sober reflection on catastrophe and rebuilding. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cParis: Arthème Fayard, 1911
653 _aEurope -- Description and travel -- 20th century
653 _aMontfort, Eugène, 1877-1936 -- Travel
653 _aTravel writing
856 4 _uhttps://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k54394837
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77275
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