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Who narrates A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy?
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Laurence Sterne
Novelist Laurence Sterne, detail of an oil painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1760; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
The narrator of A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy is a character named Yorick.12
The novel, written by Laurence Sterne, chronicles the travels of Yorick and his servant, La Fleur, through France. The name Yorick also appears as a character in Sterne's earlier novel, Tristram Shandy, and served as a nickname for the author himself.12