Category: Travel Writing
Mass at St. Roch for Admiral de Rigny.--The Abbé Lacordaire at Notre Dame.--State of the French Church.--St. Genevieve.--St. Etienne du Mont.--The American child at Prayers.--St. Medard.--Its Miracles.--Chapelle de St. Nicholas.--The Madelaine.--Notre Dame.--St. Denis.--St. Su...
Mass at St. Roch for Admiral de Rigny.--The Abbé Lacordaire at Notre Dame.--State of the French Church.--St. Genevieve.--St. Etienne du Mont.--The American child at Prayers.--St...
2. LETTER XIII.Père la Chaise.--Funeral of Bellini.--Grave-Merchants.--Description of the Cemetery.--Graves of the Rich and the Poor.--The Fête des Morts.--Tomb of Abelard and Heloise.--Remark...
3. LETTER XIV.The Louvre.--Patronage of the Fine Arts.--The Luxembourg.--The Palais des Beaux Arts.--The Sêvres Porcelain.--The Gobelins.--Manners of the common People in Paris.--A fair Cicer...
4. LETTER XV.The Schools.--State of Literature.--Minister of Public Instruction.--Education in France.--Prussian System.--Parochial Schools.--Normal Schools.--Institutions of Paris.--Public...
5. LETTER XVI.Ladies’ Boarding Schools.--Names of Professors in the Prospectus.--System of Education.--American Schools.--Preference for Science.--High Intellectual Acquirements not approved....
6. LETTER XVII.The Theatres.--Mademoiselle Mars.--Théatre Royal.--Italien.--Grisi.--Académie Royal de Musique.--Taglioni.--Miss Fanny Elsler.--The Variètés.--The Odéon.--Mademoiselle George.--...
7. LETTER XVIII.Parisian habits.--The Chaussée d’Antin.--Season of Bonbons.--Jour de l’An.--Commencement of the Season.--The Carnival.--Reception at the Tuileries.--Lady Granville.--The Royal F...
8. LETTER XIX.Execution of Fieschi.--The French House of Commons.--French Eloquence.--Thiers.--Guizot.--Berryer.--Abuse of America.--The Chamber of Peers.--Interior of the Madelaine.--Bribery...
9. LETTER XX.The Dancing Fever.--The Grand Masquerade.--Fooleries of the Carnival.--Mardi Gras.--Splendid Equipages.--Masquerades.--An Adventure.--Educated Women.--The Menus-Plaisirs.--A Fan...
10. LETTER XXI.Evening Parties at the Duchess d’Abrantes.--Mode of Admission.--The Weather.--Suicides.--Madame le Norman the Sibyl.--Parisian Réunions.--Manners of Frenchwomen.--American Soiré...
11. LETTER XXII.The Lap-Dog.--The Dame Blanche.--The Beauty in a Gallery.--The Lingère.--Madame Frederic.--Fête de Longchamps.--Parisian Fashions.--Holy Concerts.--Pretty Women.--Empire of Fash...
12. LETTER XXIII.Return of Spring.--A New Venus.--The Artesian Well.--Montmartre.--Donjon of Vincennes.--St. Ouen.--St. Germain.--The Pretender.--Machine de Marli.--Versailles.--The Water-works....
13. LETTER XII.Mass at St. Roch for Admiral de Rigny.--The Abbé Lacordaire at Notre Dame.--State of the French Church.--St. Genevieve.--St. Etienne du Mont.--The American child at Prayers.--St...
14. LETTER XIII.Père la Chaise.--Funeral of Bellini.--Grave-Merchants. Description of the Cemetery.--Graves of the Rich and the Poor.--The Fête des Morts.--Tomb of Abelard and Heloise.--Remarka...
15. LETTER XIV.The Louvre.--Patronage of the Fine Arts.--The Luxembourg.--The Palais des Beaux Arts.--The Sêvres Porcelain.--The Gobelins.--Manners of the common People in Paris.--A fair Cicer...
16. LETTER XV.The Schools.--State of Literature.--Minister of Public Instruction.--Education in France.--Prussian System.--Parochial Schools.--Normal Schools.--Institutions of Paris.--Public...
17. LETTER XVI.Ladies’ Boarding Schools.--Names of Professors in the Prospectus.--System of Education.--American Schools.--Preference for Science.--High Intellectual Acquirements not approved....
18. LETTER XVII.The Theatres.--Mademoiselle Mars.--Théatre Royal.--Italien.--Grisi.--Académie Royal de Musique.--Taglioni.--Miss Fanny Elsler.--The Variètés.--The Odéon.--Mademoiselle George.--...
19. LETTER XVIII.Parisian habits.--The Chaussée d’Antin.--Season of Bon-bons.--Jour de l’An.--Commencement of the Season.--The Carnival.--Reception at the Tuileries.--Lady Granville.--The Royal...
20. LETTER XIX.Execution of Fieschi.--The French House of Commons.--French Eloquence.--Thiers.--Guizot.--Berryer.--Abuse of America.--The Chamber of Peers.--Interior of Madelaine.--Bribery.---...
21. LETTER XX.The Dancing fever.--The Grand Masquerade.--Fooleries of the Carnival.--Mardi Gras.--Splendid Equipages.--Masquerades.--An Adventure.--Educated Women.--The Menus-Plaisirs.--A Fan...
22. LETTER XXI.Evening Parties at the Duchess d’Abrantes’.--Mode of admission.--The Weather.--Suicides.--Madame le Norman the Sibyl.--Parisian Réunions.--Manners of Frenchwomen.--American Soir...
23. LETTER XXII.The Lap-dog.--The Dame Blanche.--The Beauty in a Gallery.--The Lingère.--Madame Frederic.--Fête de Longchamps.--Parisian Fashions.--Holy Concerts.--Pretty Women.--Empire of Fash...
24. LETTER XXIII.Return of Spring.--A New Venus.--The Artesian Well.--Montmartre--Donjon of Vincennes.--St. Ouen.--St. Germain.--The Pretender.--Machine de Marli.--Versailles.--The Water-works.-...