Chapter I: Front Matter

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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.

LE PUBLIC EST PRIÉ DE
NE TOUCHER À AUCUN
DE CES OBJETS.

Drawn & Etched by A. Hervieu.]

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 an
Englishwoman should not be known for such in Paris.--Small
Shops.--Beautiful Flowers, and pretty arrangement of
them.--Native Grace.--Disappearance of Rouge.--Grey
Hair.--Every article dearer than in London.--All temptations
to smuggling removed. Page 1

LETTER XLIV.

Exclusive Soirées.--Soirée Doctrinaire.--Duc de
Broglie.--Soirée Républicaine.--Soirée Royaliste.--Partie
Impériale.--Military Greatness.--Dame de l'Empire. 11

LETTER XLV.

L'Abbé Lacordaire.--Various Statements respecting
him.--Poetical description of Notre Dame.--The Prophecy of a
Roman Catholic.--Les Jeunes Gens de Paris.--Their
omnipotence. 22

LETTER XLVI.

La Tour de Nesle. 37

LETTER XLVII.

Palais Royal.--Variety of Characters.--Party of
English.--Restaurant.--Galerie d'Orléans.--Number of
Loungers.--Convenient abundance of Idle Men.--Théâtre du
Vaudeville. 49

LETTER XLVIII.

Literary Conversation.--Modern Novelists.--Vicomte
d'Arlincourt.--His Portrait.--Châteaubriand.--Bernardin de
Saint Pierre.--Shakspeare.--Sir Walter Scott.--French
familiarity with English Authors.--Miss Mitford.--Miss
Landon.--Parisian passion for Novelty.--Extent of general
Information. 62

LETTER XLIX.

Trial by Jury.--Power of the Jury in France.--Comparative
insignificance of that vested in the Judge.--Virtual
Abolition of Capital Punishments.--Flemish Anecdote. 75

LETTER L.

English Pastry-cooks.--French horror of English
Pastry.--Unfortunate experiment upon a Muffin.--The Citizen
King. 85

LETTER LI.

Parisian Women.--Rousseau's failure in attempting to
describe them.--Their great influence in Society.--Their
grace in Conversation.--Difficulty of growing old.--Do the
ladies of France or those of England manage it best? 92

LETTER LII.

La Sainte Chapelle.--Palais de Justice.--Traces of the
Revolution of 1830.--Unworthy use made of La Sainte
Chapelle.--Boileau.--Ancient Records. 105

LETTER LIII.

French ideas of England.--Making love.--Precipitate retreat
of a young Frenchman.--Different methods of arranging
Marriages.--English Divorce.--English Restaurans. 116

LETTER LIV.

Mixed Society.--Influence of the English Clergy and their
Families.--Importance of their station in Society. 132

LETTER LV.

Le Grand Opéra.--Its enormous Expense.--Its Fashion.--Its
acknowledged Dulness.--'La Juive.'--Its heavy Music.--Its
exceeding Splendour.--Beautiful management of the
Scenery.--National Music. 143

LETTER LVI.

The Abbé Deguerry.--His eloquence.--Excursion across the
water.--Library of Ste. Geneviève.--Copy-book of the
Dauphin.--St. Etienne du Mont.--Pantheon. 156

LETTER LVII.

Little Suppers.--Great Dinners.--Affectation of
Gourmandise.--Evil effects of "dining out."--Evening
Parties.--Dinners in private under the name of
Luncheons.--Late Hours. 166

LETTER LVIII.

Hôpital des Enfans Trouvés.--Its doubtful advantages.--Story
of a Child left there. 177

LETTER LIX.

Procès Monstre.--Dislike of the Prisoners to the ceremony of
Trial.--Société des Droits de l'Homme.--Names given to the
Sections.--Kitchen and Nursery Literature.--Anecdote of
Lagrange.--Republican Law. 201

LETTER LX.

Memoirs of M. Châteaubriand.--The Readings at
L'Abbaye-aux-Bois.--Account of these in the French
Newspapers and Reviews.--Morning at the Abbaye to hear a
portion of these Memoirs.--The Visit to Prague. 212

LETTER LXI.

Jardin des Plantes.--Not equal in beauty to our Zoological
Gardens.--La Salpêtrière.--Anecdote.--Les
Invalides.--Difficulty of finding English Colours
there.--The Dome. 232

LETTER LXII.

Expedition to Montmorency.--Rendezvous in the Passage
Delorme.--St. Denis.--Tomb prepared for Napoleon.--The
Hermitage.--Dîner sur l'herbe. 241

LETTER LXIII.

George Sand. 258

LETTER LXIV.

"Angelo Tyran de Padoue."--Burlesque at the Théâtre du
Vaudeville.--Mademoiselle Mars.--Madame Dorval.--Epigram. 270

LETTER LXV.

Boulevard des Italiens.--Tortoni's.--Thunder-storm.--Church
of the Madeleine.--Mrs. Butler's "Journal." 292

LETTER LXVI.

A pleasant Party.--Discussion between an Englishman and a
Frenchman.--National Peculiarities. 302

LETTER LXVII.

Chamber of Deputies.--Punishment of Journalists.--Institute
for the Encouragement of Industry.--Men of Genius. 313

LETTER LXVIII.

Walk to the Marché des Innocens.--Escape of a Canary
Bird.--A Street Orator.--Burying-place of the Victims of
July. 323

LETTER LXIX.

A Philosophical Spectator.--Collection of Baron
Sylvestre.--Hôtel des Monnaies.--Musée d'Artillerie. 335

LETTER LXX.

Concert in the Champs Elysées.--Horticultural
Exhibition.--Forced Flowers.--Republican Hats.--Carlist
Hats--Juste-Milieu Hats.--Popular Funeral. 347

LETTER LXXI.

Minor French Novelists. 360

LETTER LXXII.

Breaking-up of the Paris Season.--Soirée at Madame
Récamier's.--Recitation.--Storm.--Disappointment.
--Atonement.--Farewell. 371

POSTSCRIPT 379

EMBELLISHMENTS
TO
THE SECOND VOLUME.

Soirée Page 20

Le Roi Citoyen 88

Prêtres de la Jeune France 158

Lecture à l'Abbaye-aux-Bois 228

Boulevard des Italiens 294

"V'là les restes de notre Révolution de Juillet" 328

PARIS
AND THE PARISIANS
IN 1835.