[70] “Ladies of good company,” or, as we should say in english, women of character. [71] Carriages in the english fashion, or carriages really english. [72] What a fine sight! what pretty carriages! what beautiful horses! what elegant dresses! Really it is charming! [73] How I pity the frenchman, whose gayety’s lost; The creature’s a wretch, from his element toss’d. [74] Official defenders. [75] Hackney coach. [76] That all the good company of Paris went there. [77] _Surveillance_—Watch, or special care. [78] Formerly a convent. [79] Molière and Thalia rest in this grave. [80] Nicholas Boileau is in this tomb. [81] My cares, as well as my happy days, are past. I feel no longer the indignation of my youthful anger, and leave an open course to the tribe of dull and cold versificators. [82] French Parnassus. [83] The following is nearly the exact translation: “My dear heart, we have just dined, and are very drunk. I will see you before I set out from Paris, and will caress you not as you deserve, but as I can. The bearer hurries me so much, that I can only say this one word—good night, my dear heart, I kiss you a million of times. 8 This XIIIIIth october, 8 H 8 8 HENRY.” [84] The national garden of plants. [85] Among the curious quadrupeds here preserved is the _Camelopardalis_. _Vide Vaillant’s Travels in Africa._ [86] I do not mention _l’École Polytechnique_, that admirable institution, in which eight hundred young men, named by the government (principally as a reward for the services of their fathers), are liberally educated, because it forms part of the system of public instruction, which, being of a political nature, is foreign to my object. In this letter I only mean to point out those establishments, from which foreigners can derive either information or pleasure. [87] The boiled beef, which, after making the soup, is always served at a trench table. “Le vin ordinaire,” or common wine, is a weak, sour beverage, which costs about sixpence english per bottle, and is not, either in taste or strength, superiour to our small beer. [88] The boxes “au baignoir” are on the level with the pit, under the first tier, and are in the shape of a bath, from which they take their name. [89] Persons going to France ought to know, that, the exchange being at present against England, we regularly lose from _five_ to _seven_ per cent on the money drawn from the latter country. This loss must of course be added to the calculation of expenses on the continent.