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Sunday 14 July 1844: "We left [Aix] towards evening, and took the road to Marseilles. A dusty road it was; the houses shut up close; and the vines powdered white. At nearly all the cottage doors, women were peeling and slicing onions into earthen bowls for supper."
10 July 1844: Still, there's a brightside to Dickens' TripAdvisor review of Chalons - "You would probably like it better, however, than Lyons".
Statement from Lyons: