France in Eighteen Hundred and Two

France in Eighteen Hundred and Two is a sharp-eyed travel narrative and political reckoning set in the uneasy years after the Revolution, when France had not yet settled into the order its leaders promised. Framed through Henry Redhead Yorke's 1802 letters from France, the book follows a once-radical English observer whose faith in revolutionary ideals was shattered by imprisonment, disillusionment, and firsthand witness to terror, corruption, and decline. Yorke's journey begins at Calais, where passports, fees, inspections, and military bureaucracy turn travel into a petty ordeal, while poverty and plunder reveal the true condition of postwar France. He moves on to Paris and beyond, surveying hospitals, foundling homes, and charitable institutions with a mix of admiration and criticism, praising humane places like La Maternité while condemning overcrowding, filth, and the collapse of care under unstable government. Along the way, he encounters surviving revolutionary figures and records the fates of men and women shaped by the Terror. The book is both vivid social portrait and fierce warning against fanaticism, persecution, and the false promises of revolution. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.