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Francis Parkman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | In 1843, at the age of 20, he traveled to Europe for eight months in the fashion of the Grand Tour. |
 | | Parkman made expeditions through the Alps and the Apennine mountains, climbed Vesuvius, and even lived for a time in Rome, where he befriended Passionist monks who tried, unsuccessfully, to convert him to Catholicism. |
 | | Upon graduation in 1846, he was persuaded to get a law degree, his father hoping such study would rid Parkman of his desire to write his history of the forests. |
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