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A rough sketch of modern Paris : $b or, Letters on society, manners, public curiosities, and amusements, in that capital — John Shaqi

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

Name: A rough sketch of modern Paris : $b or, Letters on society, manners, public curiosities, and amusements, in that capital
Author: Lemaistre, J. G. (John Gustavus)

Lemaistre, J. G. (John Gustavus)

Paris (France) -- Description and travel

⸺Heu quantum mutatus ab illo
    Hectore, qui redit exuvias indutus Achillis!

_Upper Seymour Street, Sept. 21, 1803._




_CONTENTS._


                                 LETTER I.

    Reflections on landing at Calais.—Custom house
    officers, municipality, commissaires, Dessein’s,
    theatre.—Montreuil.—L’hôtel d’Angleterre at
    Amiens.—Chantilly.—State of the roads.—Difficulty of getting
    lodgings at Paris.—M. Peregaux.                                 p.   1.

                                 LETTER II.

    The palace and gardens of the Thuilleries.—The
    Louvre.—The _musée central des arts_, or picture
    gallery.—_Maria Cosway._—Gallery of antiquities.—Apollo
    Belvidere.—Laocoon.—List of pictures.                           p.  10.

                                 LETTER III.

    The _fête_ of the 18th of brumaire in honour of the
    preliminaries, and of the anniversary of the consular
    government.—Apathy of the people.—Fireworks.—Accident which
    happened to an english gentleman.—_Postscript._—The death of
    the gentleman last named.                                       p.  40.

                                 LETTER IV.

    State of society at Paris.—The three sets, _l’ancienne
    noblesse_, the governmental class, and _les parvenus ou
    nouveaux riches_.—Description of a house belonging to one of
    the latter.                                                     p.  53.

                                 LETTER V.

    Opening of the legislative body.—Election of the
    president.—Lord Cornwallis.—Reflections of the people in the
    gallery.                                                        p.  63.

                                 LETTER VI.

    The abbé Sicard, and the institution in behalf of the deaf and
    dumb.—His favourite pupil, Massieu.—Examination of a young
    woman, who had become deaf at six years old.—Reflections on
    the establishment.                                              p.  69.

                                 LETTER VII.

    A _thé_ or evening party.—French remarks on Shakspeare and Mr.
    Fox.—Dullness and pedantry of parisian society.                 p.  74.

                                 LETTER VIII.

    Bonaparte.—The monthly review or parade in the court of the
    Thuilleries.                                                    p.  81.

                                 LETTER IX.

    The tribunate.—Speech of _Portalis_ on presenting the _code
    civil_ in the corps législatif.—Debate in the tribunate on the
    same subject.                                                   p.  87.

                                 LETTER X.

    _Bal des étrangers_, (a public subscription ball).—Thinness of
    the ladies’ dresses.                                            p.  92.

                                 LETTER XI.

    New year’s day.—The Palais royal.                               p.  98.

                                 LETTER XII.

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