A rough sketch of modern Paris : $b or, Letters on society, manners, public curiosities, and amusements, in that capitalLemaistre, J. G. (John Gustavus)
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A rough sketch of modern Paris : $b or, Letters on society, manners, public curiosities, and amusements, in that capital
Lemaistre, J. G. (John Gustavus)
Paris (France) -- Description and travel
Printing by the blind, 103
Provision, price of, 269
R.
Raphael, paintings of, 38, 171
Recommendation, letters of, necessary, 291, 292
Religion, reestablishment of, 213
Rembrandt, paintings of, 28
Restaurateurs, 278
Restout, paintings of, 24
Review of troops before Bonaparte, 81
Road from Calais, 4
Rousseau, tomb of, 186
Rubens, paintings of, 29, 171
S.
Sacchi, Andrea, paintings of, 172
Salon des étrangers, 92
Salvator Rosa, 172
Savage of Aveyron, 109
Sèvre, manufactory of, 193
Shakspeare, opinion of the french concerning him, 77
Shorthand defined by a deaf and dumb youth, 107
Sicard, abbé, 69
Societies, literary and scientific, 249, 264
Society, state and classes of, in Paris, 53, 74
_Spectacle_, definition of the word, 41
_Spectacles_, general account of, 116
Stables of Chantilly, 8
of Versailles, 202
Statues, gallery of, 16
Sueur, le, Eustache, paintings of, 24
T.
Tallien, madame, 95
Talma, 116
Taxes, 56
Tea assemblies, 74
Temple of Mars, 233
Teniers, the elder and the younger, paintings of, 31
Texier, 133
Theatre, general account of, 116
Comique, rue Feydeau, 125
de la Gaieté, 131
de l’Ambigu Comique, 130
de la République et des Arts, 123
de Molière, 129
des jeunes Artistes, 130
des jeunes Élèves, 131
du Marais, _ib._
François de la République, 116
Italian Opera, 42, 128
Louvois, 127
Montansier, 129
sans Pretension, 121
Vaudeville, 126
Thuilleries, 10
Tintoret, paintings of, 173
Titian, paintings of, 39, 172
Tivoli, the gardens of, 232
Tom Jones, a french play, 127
Traiteurs, a list of the principal, 278
Trial at Versailles, 199
Trianon, le Grand, 203
le Petit, Hôtel at Versailles, exorbitant charges, 198
garden of, 202
Tribunal de Cassation, 223
de la Police Correctionelle, _ib._
Tribunals of justice, 222
Tribunal, sitting of, 87
Turenne, tomb of, 245, 247
Turnpikes, 8
V.
Van Loo, Carlo, paintings of, 25
John Baptist, paintings of, _ib._
Lewis Michael, paintings of, _ib._
Venetian horses at the gates of the Thuilleries, 11
Veronese, Alexander, paintings of, 38
Paul, paintings of, _ib._
Versailles, 192, 194
Vestris, 163
Vinci, Leonardo da, 38, 173
Visits, 284
Vivacity wanted in french society, 80
Volney, mademoiselle, 116
Voltaire, tomb of, 186
W.
Walse, description of this dance, 142
Wild boy of Aveyron, 109
Y.
York Hotel, Dover, 1
ERRATA.
Transcriber’s Note: the errata have been corrected. In addition, accents
in the French have been standardized, and obvious typographical errors
have been amended.
Page 14, l. 17, for _chefs d’œuvre_, read _chefs d’œuvres_.
⸺ 33, No. 713, for occupation, read vocation.
⸺ 45, l. 21, for merits, read talents.
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