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Zigzags

Théophile Gautier · Victor Magen

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Published1845
DOInone
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CITATION CHECK

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.

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TOPICS
LondonGreenwichtravel writing1840s
CLM-SEAAIR-001

Sea air at Greenwich in an 1845 sketch by Gautier ↗

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.
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Dataset history In the SmellBook dataset since the dataset release of 2026-10-05 · sha256 d10c2deef978.