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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851 Excerpt: ...desires and spirit of conquest of Normandy restrained between resisting Brittany and thick and massive Flanders." It is a curious fact that in Paris there are comparatively few Purisians--nat... More

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851 Excerpt: ...desires and spirit of conquest of Normandy restrained between resisting Brittany and thick and massive Flanders." It is a curious fact that in Paris there are comparatively few Purisians--natives of the city. A French essayist, in describing a Parisian house of seven stories, distributes the occupants as follows. First, there are two druggists from the provinces, in the lower story; next, in the entresol, is a dentist corn-doctor from Italy, a corset-maker from Carcassonne, and a Genoese speculator. On the rear floor is a Norman notary, with eight clerks, all from the provinces. Next is a deputy from the south, with his whole family, desirous to see how he looks in the Chamber. Next is a wet nurse, and a young man who appears under the guise of an American traveller. Next is an Italian tenor singer, who practises his voce de petto twelve hours a day, with a litterateur from Leipsic, and a Spanish marquis, named Don Beltram de las Marismas, de las Campanadas, de las Cardonas, de las Blagadas,--whose life is one continued cigarette. Next we have a lawyer from Perigord, an English tourist, making sketches of France in his room, and a university student from Germany. Next there is an aged Swiss, deeply immersed in alchemy; a Jew, who stands for the artists as model for King Priam, King Lear, the apostles and saints generally. His daughter is model for Niobe, the Graces, Venus, &c. Next is a young Bavarian girl, who gets seventeen sous a day for polishing gaiter buttons; her neighbors are, a gilder from Nantes, and a Hungarian who breeds maggots under his bed, from putrescent meat, which he sells to fishermen of the Seine, for bait. The garret--the eighth story--is occupied by the servants, who are from Picardy, Burgundy, Brittany, &c. Finally, the ...

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