Beds are better in France
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17159/Abstract
During the eighteenth century, the Grand Tour was established as an important cultural tradition in Northern Europe. For wealthy young men, an extended tour abroad, and particularly of Italy, was considered necessary because:
... no reasonable man of Anglo-Saxon or Germanic stock has ever been wholly satisfied with his own civilisation. The Northern yearning for sun and grace has been pretty consistent (Burgess & Haskell 1970:5).
