Paris as It Was and as It Is A Sketch Of The French Capital, Illustrative Of The Effects Of The Revolution

LETTER XLIII.

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New year's day still celebrated in Paris on the 1st of January --Customs which prevail there on that occasion--_Denon's_ account of the French expedition to Egypt--That country was the cradle of the arts and sciences--_Fourrier_ confirms the theory of _Dupuis_, respecting the origin, &c. of the figures of the Zodiac.