However the innkeeper Monsieur Pierre Dessein was real and in fact became wealthy by his being named in the publication. Francis asking for alms proven later the monk was fictitious as the order bars this.
A friend warned him more money was needed.
Thus Mr.Sterne a noted wit, was a generous man unlike his fellow countrymen which kept him carefully counting British pounds. Writers back then are not wealthy a limited amount of income most need a second job, he is a clergyman in the Anglican Church yet a volatile person. On the French side of the English channel the inhabitants are always with their hands out. Arriving in Calais from England, a celebrity in his day Tristram Shandy, is nonsensical but brilliant I understand, have the volume and will read soon.
Not to worry friends it was very popular in 1768 and amusing, travel books were quite in vogue then since in that era half the planet was unexplored and people are curious, still are. A book without a plot this 18th century story is a travel novel written by Laurence Sterne as he crosses France and never actually gets to Italy which makes the title a misnomer.
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