Ecarte; Or, the Salons of Paris, Vol. 3 of 3 (Classic Reprint)
Author: John Richardson
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2017-04-26
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780259447269
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from Ecarte; Or, the Salons of Paris, Vol. 3 of 3 ON the following morning, at an early hour, the handsome cabriolet of the marquis was seen winding through the narrow dirty streets of that quarter of Paris which is not inappropriately called the Mantis, and which may be considered as bearing a striking simili tude, as well from its appearance, as from the manners and isolated habits of its occupants, to the Little Bri tain, of London, so humorously described by Wash ington Irving in his Sketch Book. Seldom was the curiosity of the good people of the Marais gratified by the appearance of any thing higher in the scale of ve hicles than a fiacre, if we may except one or two old rumbling family carriages, that had been handed down from father to son for several successive generations; and which regularly once a year furnished and beauti fied for a long-champs procession in the season, were drawn by two long-tailed, snail-paced animals, of years nearly coeval with the ponderous machine itself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.