Lichfield on the main routes from London to the north-west and Birmingham to the north-east. It also became a centre of great intellectual activity, being the home of many famous people including Samuel Johnson, David Garrick, Erasmus Darwin and Anna Seward; this prompted Johnson's remark that Lichfield was "a city of philosophers". In the 1720s Daniel Defoe described Lichfield as 'a fine, neat, well-built, and indifferent large city', the principal town in the region after Chester. During the late 18th and early 19th century much of the medieval city was rebuilt with the red-brick Georgian style buildings still to be seen
Garrick Médecin Garrick Médecin Garrick Médecin is a short story written by Joseph Bouchardy, printed 1835/1836 in installments in the newspaper "Le Monde Dramatique" which was founded by his brother, Anatole Bouchardy. It was the basis for several plays including "Sullivan" (1852) and "Le Docteur Robin" (1842) which were respectively adapted into the English plays "David Garrick" (1864) and "Doctor Davy" (1865). In 2015, the story was translated into English as "The Acting Physician" and published in Vol. 3 No. 2 of "Romance Magazine." The plot concerns Doney, the Duke of Tavistock, promising a reward of twenty thousand pounds to the doctor