LETTER XXXV. Soirée dansante.--Young Ladies.--Old Ladies.--Anecdote.--The Consolations of Chaperones.--Flirtations.--Discussion upon the variations between young Married Women in France and in England.--Making love by deputy.--Not likely to answer in England. 329 LETTER XXXVI. Improvements of Paris.--Introduction of Carpets and Trottoirs.--Maisonnettes.--Not likely to answer in Paris. --The necessity of a Porter and Porter's Lodge.--Comparative Expenses of France and England.--Increasing Wealth of the Bourgeoisie. 347 LETTER XXXVII. Horrible Murder.--La Morgue.--Suicides.--Vanity. --Anecdote.--Influence of Modern Literature.--Different appearance of Poverty in France and England. 358 LETTER XXXVIII. Opéra Comique.--"Cheval de Bronze."--"La Marquise." --Impossibility of playing Tragedy.--Mrs. Siddons's Readings.--Mademoiselle Mars has equal power.--_Laisser aller_ of the Female Performers.--Decline of Theatrical Taste among the Fashionable. 371 LETTER XXXIX. The Abbé de Lamennais.--Cobbett.--O'Connell.--Napoleon. --Robespierre. 381 LETTER XL. Which Party is it ranks second in the estimation of all?--No Caricatures against the Exiles.--Horror of a Republic. 389 LETTER XLI. M. Dupré.--His Drawings in Greece.--L'Eglise des Carmes.--M. Vinchon's Picture of the National Convention. --Léopold Robert's Fishermen.--Reported cause of his Suicide.--Roman Catholic Religion.--Mr. Daniel O'Connell. 400 LETTER XLII. Old Maids.--Rarely to be found in France.--The reasons for this. 408 EMBELLISHMENTS TO THE FIRST VOLUME. Louvre Page 30 Morning at the Tuileries Gardens 106 "Pro Patria" 140 "Ce soir, à la Porte St. Martin."--"J'y serai." 218 Tuileries Gardens (on Sunday) 264 Porte St. Martin 322 P. 155, line 2, _read_ given--P. 224, line 23, _read_ new. PARIS AND THE PARISIANS IN 1835. LETTER I. Difficulty of giving a systematic account of what is doing in France.--Pleasure of revisiting Paris after long absence.--What is changed; what remains the same. Paris, 11th April 1835. MY DEAR FRIEND,