A rare and entertaining book of travel writing full of literary allusions, commenting on the order and regularity of Prussion public administration, on the magnificence of Berlin buildings and Viennese opera houses, on the antique splendor and actual tristesse of Venice - sighing under the Austrian yoke - on Italian culinary enjoyments, the beautiful Milanese vaudeville theatres and the execrable musical and dramatical performances in Italy, on the 'admirable horrors' of the Simplon Pass (the new road constructed under Napoleon), on the hospitality of the Valaisians and the mountain dwellers in general, about the layout of the theatre of Clermont, and ending in good old Paris, with an ode to his faithful caleche, in which Delestre-Poirson and his wife traveled all those fourteen hundred leagues to Warsaw and Trieste and back again.