is this even limited to the th century to the nobility or to the anglophone world i quote sometime near the end of or the beginning of van vliet concluded his studies and as befitted a fashionable young gentleman subsequently embarked on his grand tour cornelis dekker the origins of old germanic studies in the low countries leiden brill p which refers to it as a common practice of the dutch middle classes in the th century which is something one would never guess from the current article talk