A Little Tour in France
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 Cover of the 1900 edition, published by Houghton Mifflin | |
| Author | Henry James |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Thomas Watson Bell (1900 edition pictured) |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Travel writing |
| Publisher | James R. Osgood and Company, Boston |
Publication date | 5 September 1884 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 255 |
A Little Tour in France is a book of travel writing by American writer Henry James. Published under the title En Province in 1883–1884 as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly, the book recounts a six-week tour James made of many provincial towns in France, including Tours, Bourges, Nantes, Toulouse, Arles and several others. The first book publication was in 1884. A second, extensively revised edition was published in 1900 with illustrations by Joseph Pennell.
James gives the idea for the book in the first paragraph of the first installment of the original magazine serial: "France may be Paris, but Paris is not France." He conceived the book as a description of and even homage to the provinces. James had tried living in Paris before settling in London in 1876. He returned to France in 1882 to discover more of French provincial life than he had previously been able to see.
