Many figures of double children of different kinds may be seen in _Licetus de Monstris_, 4to. 1665; and in the _Medical Miscellanies_, which were printed in Latin at Leipzig, in several quarto volumes, in 1673.] I went several times to the National Assembly; the _Tribunes_, or _Galleries_, (of which there are three) entered warmly, by applauses and by murmurs and hisses, into the affairs which were treated of. Letters are franked by the assembly as far as the frontiers, by being stamped with red printers ink, _Ass. Nationale._ About this time many hundreds of folio volumes of heraldry, and of the registers of the nobility, were publicly burnt in _la Place Vendome_, after due notice had been given of the time and place by advertisements pasted against the walls. A wicked wag observed, that it was a pity all their books of divinity, and almost all those of law and physic, were not added to the pile but he comforted himself with reflecting that _ca viendra_. All the coats of arms which formerly decorated the gates of _Hotels_ are taken away, and even seals are at present engraven with cyphers only. _The Chevaliers de St. Louis_ still continue to wear the cross, or the ribband, at the button-hole; all other orders of knighthood are abolished. No liveries are worn by servants, that badge of slavery is likewise abolished; and also all corporation companies, as well as every other monopolizing society; and there are no longer any _Royal_ tobacco nor salt shops. I went once to the _Cafe de la Regence_,[16] with the intention of playing a game at chess, but I found the chess-men so very little different in colour, that I could not distinguish them sufficiently to be able to play. It seems it is the fashion for chess-men at present to be made of box-wood, and all nearly of the same colour. I then went to another coffee-house frequented by chess-players, and here the matter was worse; they had, in addition to the above-mentioned fashion, substituted the _cavalier_, or _knight_, for the _fou_, or _bishop_, and the _bishop_ for the _knight_, so that I left them to fight their own battles. [Note 16: Rousseau used to play at chess here almost every day, which attracted such crowds of people to see him, that the _Lieutenant de Police_ was obliged to place a sentinel at the door.] Books of all sorts are printed without any _approbation_ or _privilege_. Many are exposed on stalls, which are very improper for the public eye. One of these was called the _Private Life of the Queen_, in two volumes, with obscene prints. The book itself is contemptible and disgusting, and might as well have been called the _Woman of Pleasure_. Of books of this sort I saw above thirty, with plates. Another was on a subject not fit even to be mentioned. I read a small pamphlet, entitled "_le Christ-Roi_, or a Parallel of the Sufferings of Lewis XVI. &c." I can say nothing in favor of it.