Traveling in Europe in the Age of Enlightenment, by Gilles Montègre: before mass tourism. “Dromomania” as psychiatrists at the end of the 19th century defined the madness of those who sought to travel every weekend, unable to stay at home, has transformed into a small tragedy whose victims are still consenting.

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