Resumen de Reporting the Grand Tour: the correspondence of Henry Bentinck, Viscount Woodstock, and Paul Rapin-Thoyras with the Earl of Portland, 1701-1703
This article examines the correspondence written before and during the Grand Tour by Henry Bentinck, Viscount Woodstock, and his head tutor, the famous Huguenot historian Paul Rapin-Thoyras, to Bentinck's father Hans Willem Bentinck, the Earl of Portland, in the years 1701-1703. The numerous letters shed light on the preparation of the voyage, the problematic relationship between the teenage pupil and his teacher and their reflections on political events, cultural impressions and educational ideas of the early eighteenth century.
