Paris and the Parisians in 1835 (Vol. 2)

My letters from Paris, my dear friend, must now be brought to a close--and perhaps you will say that it is high time it should be so. The summer sun has in truth got so high int...

Like diligent sight-seers, as we are, we have been to visit the hospital for les Enfans Trouvés. I had myself gone over every part of the establishment several years before, but...

We have seen and enjoyed many very pretty, very gay little pieces at most of the theatres since we have been here; but we never till our last visit to the Théâtre Français enjoy...

Memoirs of M. de 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 Mem...

It is more than a fortnight ago, I think, that we engaged ourselves with a very agreeable party of twenty persons to take a long drive out of Paris and indulge ourselves with a...

It now and then happens, by a lucky chance, that one finds oneself full gallop in a conversation the most perfectly unreserved, without having had the slightest idea or intentio...

The great reputation of another preacher induced us on Sunday to endure two hours more of tedious waiting before the mass which preceded the sermon began. It is only thus that a...

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 o...

Can I better keep the promise I gave you yesterday than by writing you a letter of and concerning le grand opéra? Is there anything in the world so perfectly French as this? Som...

The advancing season begins to render the atmosphere of the theatres insupportable, and even a crowded soirée is not so agreeable as it has been; so last night we sought our amu...

Though, as a lady, you may fancy yourself quite beyond the possibility of ever feeling any interest in the Palais Royal, its restaurans, its trinket-shops, ribbon-shops, toy-sho...

Literary Conversation.--Modern Novelists.--Vicomte d'Arlincourt.--His Portrait.--Châteaubriand.--Bernardin de Saint Pierre.--Shakspeare.--Sir Walter Scott.--French familiarity w...

I have more than once mentioned to you my observations on the reception given in Paris to that terrible school of composition which derives its power from displaying, with stren...

It is, I believe, nearly two years ago since the very extraordinary drama called "La Tour de Nesle" was sent me to read, as a specimen of the outrageous school of dramatic extra...

We have been indebted to M. J***, the same obliging and amiable friend of whom I have before spoken, for one or two more very delightful mornings. We saw many things, and we tal...

I must give you to-day an account of the adventures I have encountered in a _course à pied_ to the Marché des Innocens. You must know that there is at one of the corners of this...

Though the _salons_ of Paris probably show at the present moment the most mixed society that can be found mingled together in the world, one occasionally finds oneself in the mi...

A week or two ago we made a vain and unprofitable expedition into the City for the purpose of seeing "La Sainte Chapelle;" sainte to all good Catholics from its having been buil...

Though I am still of opinion that French society, properly so called,--that is to say, the society of the educated ladies and gentlemen of France,--is the most graceful, animate...

How I mourn for the departed petits soupers of Paris!... and how far are her pompous dinners from being able to atone for their loss! For those people, and I am afraid there are...

I told you yesterday that, notwithstanding the tremendous heat of the weather, we were going to a large party in the evening. We courageously kept the engagement; though, I assu...

It is not long since, in writing to you of modern French works of imagination, I avowed my great and irresistible admiration for the high talent manifested in some of the writin...

All the world has been complaining of the tremendous heat of the weather here. The thermometer stands at.... I forget what, for the scale is not my scale; but I know that the su...

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 L...

Of all the ladies in the world, the English, I believe, are the most anxious to enter a representative chamber. The reason for this is sufficiently obvious,--they are the only o...

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...

Do not be terrified, my dear friend, and fancy that I am going to exchange my idle, ambling pace, and my babil de femme, to join the march of intellect, and indite wisdom. I hav...

Another long morning on the other side of the water has given us abundant amusement, and sent us home in a very good humour with the expedition, because, after very mature and e...

The finest sermon I have heard since I have been in Paris--and, I am almost inclined to think, the finest I ever heard anywhere--was preached yesterday by the Abbé Deguerry at S...

We have been on a regular shopping tour this morning; which was finished by our going into an English pastry-cook's to eat buns. While thus engaged, we amused ourselves by watch...

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...

Literary Conversation.--Modern Novelists.--Vicomte d'Arlincourt.--His Portrait.--Châteaubriand.--Bernardin de Saint Pierre.--Shakspeare.--Sir Walter Scott.--French familiarity w...

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 o...

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 Memoir...

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 L...