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Title, creator, publisher and date checked against the catalogue record on 2026-10-05 by an automated check. The Wikisource Index record and the Wikimedia Commons record of the scan, taken from Gallica, agree on the author, the title, the publisher Victor Magen and the year 1845; the chapter Une journée à Londres spans images 126–193. Date confirmed to the year. SmellBook publishes only the citation, the location of the passage and its own claim, never the work’s text.
In Une journée à Londres, collected in Zigzags (1845), Théophile Gautier describes the pensioners of the royal naval hospital at Greenwich watching ships leave and return from the benches of its colonnades, while the acrid smell of the sea still comes to delight them.
A French writer's travel sketch of Greenwich, published in 1845; it records his impression then, not the air there today.EXTERNAL RECORD