Sociability at Mount Vernon

Jacques-Pierre Brissot de Warville

Belknap Press of Harvard University Press

1964-00-00

book

eng

Brissot de Warville, Jacques-Pierre. New Travels in the United States of America, 1788. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1964.

From Jacques Pierre Brissot de Warville: “[November 1788] Every thing [sic] has an air of simplicity in his [George Washington’s] house; his table is good, but not ostentatious; and no deviation is seen from regularity and domestic oeconomy. Mrs. Washington superintends the whole, and joins to the qualities of an excellent house-wife, that simple dignity which ought to characterize a woman, whose husband has acted the greatest part on the theatre of human affairs; while she possesses that amenity, and manifests that attention to strangers, which render hospitality so charming….” (429)