ABSTRACT
‘Chevalier’ Andrew Michael Ramsay, conversation with Rev. Joseph Spence in the summer of 1733, Anecdotes, i. 223. Ramsay, the son of a Scottish baker, ‘rose to become intimate with statesmen, theologians, philosophers, and even with the royalty of two courts’ (Ibid., i. 441). His remarkably successful career as an expatriate in France was based upon his Jacobite sympathies, his close relationship with Fénelon, and upon his literary abilities. This conversation took place during a visit to England to promote the English version of his highly regarded romance, The Travels of Cyrus.
