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Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation in the originaldocument have been preserved.
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Preparing for publication, by the same Author,
In 3 vols. post 8vo. with 15 Characteristic Engravings.
THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES
OF
JONATHAN JEFFERSON WHITLAW;
OR,
SCENES ON THE MISSISSIPPI.
Paris and the Parisians,
in 1835.
VOL. 2.
Drawn & Etched by A. Hervieu.
MUSEUM DES CURIOSITES HISTORIQUES
LE PUBLIC EST PRIÉ DE
NE TOUCHER À AUCUN
DE CES OBJETS.
London:
Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street,
Publisher in Ordinary to His Majesty.
1835.
PARIS
AND
THE PARISIANS
IN 1835.
BY FRANCES TROLLOPE,
AUTHOR OF "DOMESTIC MANNERS OF THE AMERICANS,"
"TREMORDYN CLIFF," &c.
"Le pire des états, c'est l'état populaire."—Corneille.
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. II.
LONDON:
RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET,
Publisher in Ordinary to His Majesty.
1836.
LONDON:
PRINTED BY SAMUEL BENTLEY,
Dorset Street, Fleet Street.
CONTENTS
TO
THE SECOND VOLUME.
LETTER XLIII.
Peculiar Air of Frenchwomen.—Impossibility that anEnglishwoman should not be known for such in Paris.—SmallShops.—Beautiful Flowers, and pretty arrangementof them.—Native Grace.—Disappearance of Rouge.—GreyHair.—Every article dearer than in London.—All temptationsto smuggling removed.Page 1
LETTER XLIV.
Exclusive Soirées.—Soirée Doctrinaire.—Duc de Broglie.—SoiréeRépublicaine.—Soirée Royaliste.—Partie Impériale.—MilitaryGreatness.—Dame de l'Empire.11
LETTER XLV.
L'Abbé Lacordaire.—Various Statements respecting him.—Poeticaldescription of Notre Dame.—The Prophecy of aRoman Catholic.—Les Jeunes Gens de Paris.—Their omnipotence.22
LETTER XLVI.
LETTER XLVII.
Palais Royal.—Variety of Characters.—Party of English.—Restaurant.—Galeried'Orléans.—Number of Loungers.—Convenientabundance of Idle Men.—Théâtre du Vaudeville.49
LETTER XLVIII.
Literary Conversation.—Modern Novelists.—Vicomted'Arlincourt.—His Portrait.—Châteaubriand.—Bernardinde Saint Pierre.—Shakspeare.—Sir Walter Scott.—Frenchfamiliarity with English Authors.—Miss Mitford.—MissLando