Volume 183601

Paris and the Parisians in 1835.

  • Frances Trollope
Date:
1836
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Paris and the Parisians in 1835. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ‘* Not the least in the world, I do assure you; for, at any rate, all the enthusiasm, as you civilly call it, would only elicit additional proof of the stability and power of the government which we are now so happy as to enjoy. The enthusiasm would be speedily calmed, depend upon it.” ‘*A peaceable traveller,” said I, ‘‘can wish for no better news; and henceforward I shall endeavour to read and to listen with a tranquil spirit, let the prisoners or their parti- sans say what they may.” ‘*You will do wisely, believe me. Rest in perfect confi- dence and security, and be assured that Louis-Philippe holds all the English as his right good friends. While this is the case, neither Windsor Castle nor the Tower of London itsely could afford you a safer abode than Paris.” With this seasonable and very efficient encouragement, he left me; and, asI really believe him to know more about the new-born politics of ‘‘ Young France” than most people, I go on very tranguilly making engagements, with but few misgivings lest barricades should prevent my keeping them. LETTER VIII. Eloquence of the Pulpit.—L’Abbé Cour.—Sermon at St. Roch.— Elegant Congregation.—Costume of the younger Clergy. THERE is one novelty, and to mea very agreeable one, which I have remarked since my return to this volatile France : this is the fashion and consideration which now attend the eloquence of her preachers. Political economists assert that the supply of every article follows the demand for it in a degree nicely proportioned to the wants of the population; and it is upon this principle, I
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