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Title: The diary of a girl in France in 1821
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Browne, Mary, 1807-1833 Teigamouth, Henry Noel Shore, Baron, 1847-1926
Subjects: France -- Description and travel France -- Social life and customs
Publisher: New York : E.P. Dutton and Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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gardens of the Tuileries,which were excessively crowded, and throughthe square of the Louvre. It is the mostbeautiful thing of the kind I ever saw; Ithink it is a much more magnificent palacethan that of Versailles. It is beautifullycarved round every window and door, andexcessively white and clean-looking. I alto-gether admired this palace, and the Colonnede la Place Vend6me, the most of any of thebuildings in Paris. In the evening I walkedwith papa on the boulevards as far as theFontaine de Bondy, which was not playing.It was dark when we came back, and theboulevards were crowded with people. Thecafes were lighted up, and were full of peoplesitting taking refreshments. There were stallslike a fair, puppet-shows, and conjurers. Inever saw anything so unlike Sunday.^ 1 We saw a monkey in the opposite balcony which played anumber of tricks. 2 One Sunday, when papa was at Paris, he counted nineteenplaces of public amusement open; on another seventeen,besides many for the lower classes.
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i82i) AT THE PALAIS ROYAL 109 LUXEMBOURG MAN AND STILTS, ETC. Jtme iSth.—We went to the Palais Royal(on our way we bought a souvenir). I wantedsome little remembrance of France: we wentinto several shops in the Palais Royal, andthe cheapest thing I could get there wasa little gilt cart and horse, for which thewoman asked ten francs. We, however, gotit for eight, which was far too much, as wegot as pretty a one in the Rue de la Paix forhalf the price ; we also got some silk windersof mother-of-pearl. The shops in the PalaisRoyal are very dear and disagreeable: thepeople seem to make quite a favour of sell-ing you anything.^ Near this we got somestrawberries and cream in a cafd (Vefours).After that we drove to the Luxembourg. Wewalked in the gardens, which are very formal,but pretty in their way; there are a great ^ The milliners shops are very ugly, but there are some verypretty things in the others, particularly little dolls chairs, etc.,of mother-of-pearl and gold, and flowers at t

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