Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Discovery_of_France https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Discovery_of_France to see how much better the Brits had it th

Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Discovery_of_France https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Discovery_of_France to see how much better the Brits had it than the French. Many of the accounts in the book are drawn from British working class _tourists_. Ordinary people in Britain had enough disposable income to visit France.