Specific heat and electric susceptibility measurements on praseodymium ethyl sulphate have shown that down to 0.06 K it IS well described by the one-dimensional X Y model with the interaction between nearest neighbour pairs of praseodymium ions arising from electric dipole-dipole coupling. A comparison of the experimental data and the theoretical expression for electric susceptibility gives the nearest neighbour pair interaction parameter, J , equal to k , x 0 7 6 K. The electric dipole moment of the Pr3+ ion was found to be confined to the XYplane and was ofmagnitude y = 7.8 x C m; the consequent electric dipole-dipole interaction parameter between nearest neighbours was k , x 1.12 K, in reasonably good agreement with the J-value determined from electric susceptibility. Both the dipole moment and the low-temperature ordering are interpreted as Jahn-Teller effects. The thermal conductivity shows strong resonant scattering of the acoustic phonons; this is interpreted to be the result of an interaction between the phonons and the elementary excitations of a one-dimensional X Y chain. The resonance energy of k, x (078 & 0.03)K is in excellent agreement with the predicted low-wavevector elementary excitation energy J. The results and interpretation of the various experiments on PrES are compared with the earlier work on praseodymium chloride which showed both one-dimensional and three-dimensional antiferroelectric ordering.