A new description of Paris or, the Present State of the French Nation. Giving An Account of their Virtues and Vices, Academies, Dress, Devotion, Levity, Women, Beggars, Writers, Booksellers. Their Diversions, Theatres, Gallantry, Language, Entertainment of Strangers, Lawyers, Pickpockets, Physicians and Quacks. The Court, the Great Men, the King and the Mob. The Tuilleries, Lamps, Chymists, and Clergy. Their Notions of things. Their Houses, Eating-Houses, Liveries. Their Conjugal Affection, Luxury, Vanity, Civility, Garrulity. Their Courts of Judicature. Their Invention, Affection, Labour, Taverns, Climate, Trades-People, Fruit, House-Rent, Taylors, Brokers, Fair of St. Germain. Their Bridges, Buildings, Political Calculations of the Number of Houses, Consumption of Food, &c. In a Letter from a Gentleman at Paris to his Friend in London.

Date:

[1725?]