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    Pierre-Jean Grosley (Troyes, 18 November 1718 – Troyes, 4 November 1785) was a French man of letters, local historian, travel writer and observer of social...
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    subject of debate. A rumour in a contemporaneous travel book by Pierre-Jean Grosley, Tour to London, formed the popular myth that bread and meat sustained...
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    stands a block of flats of the same name. The French travel writer Pierre-Jean Grosley in his book Londres (1770, translated as Tour to London) considered...
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    A rumour in a contemporary travel book called Tour to London by Pierre Jean Grosley (although not confirmed) formed the popular myth that bread and meat...
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    maps, and follow military movements. In 1758, the French historian Pierre-Jean Grosley visited Parma and described Isabella as 'one of the main wonders'...
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    familiar form appeared in Pierre-Jean Grosley's Londres (Neuchâtel, 1770), translated as A Tour to London in 1772; Grosley's impressions had been formed...
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  • France. Little is known of Larivey's biography. The suggestion made by Pierre Grosley[citation needed] of Troyes that Pietro Giunti, called "Larivey" (the...
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  • Philip Neri, he taught rhetoric at the Troyes college. He befriended Pierre-Jean Grosley, for who he transcribed documents on the history of Troyes. He then...
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    Politician Nicolas Desmarest, Geologist Pierre-Jean Grosley, Historian Edmé Boursault, Man of Letters Jean de Brienne, King of Jerusalem Jules Guyot...
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    palaeographer Jean Mabillon, Richard Lassels, the English music historian Charles Burney, Charles-Nicolas Cochin, Pierre-Jean Grosley, and the French...
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