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

LETTER LXXXIII.

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Conservatory of Arts and Trades--It contains a numerous collection of machines of every description employed in the mechanical arts --_Belier hydraulique_, newly invented by _Montgolfier_--Models of curious buildings--The mechanical arts in France have experienced more or less the impulse given to the sciences--The introduction of the Spanish merinos has greatly improved the French wools--New inventions and discoveries adopted in the French manufactories --Characteristic difference of the present state of French industry, and that in which it was before the revolution.