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Paris (France) - Social life and customs - 18th century
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An agreeable criticism, of the city of Paris and the French; giving an account of their present state and condition: their Virtues and Vices. Their Academies. Their Dress, Devotion, Levity. Their Women. Their Beggars, Writers, Booksellers. Their Diversions. Their Theatres. Their Gallantry, Language, Entertainment of Strangers. Their Lawyers, Pick-Pockets, Physicians and Quacks. The Court, the Great Men, the King and the Mob. The Tuilleries, Lamps, Chymists, and Clergy. Their Notions of things. Their Horses, Eating-Houses, Liveries. Their Conjugal Affection. Their Luxury, Vanity, Civility, Garrulity. Their Courts of Judicature. Their Invention, Affectation, Labour. Taverns. Climate. Trades-People. Fruit. House-Rent. Taylors. Brokers. Fair of St. Germain. Their Bridges, Buildings, &c. Political Calculations of the number of Houses, Consumption of Food. &c. Being a translation of an Italian letter, written lately from Paris, by a Sicilian, to a friend of his at Amsterdam. With further remarks upon the French, their Preachers, Authors, &c. By a French gentleman.
French gentleman.Date: [1704]- Books
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La quinzaine angloise a Paris, ou l'art de s'y ruiner en peu de tems. Ouvrage posthume du Docteur Stearne, traduit de l'anglois par un observateur.
Rutledge, Jean Jacques, 1742-1794.Date: 1776- Books
The smile revolution in eighteenth century Paris / Colin Jones.
Jones, Colin, 1947-Date: 2014- Books
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An agreeable criticism, of the City of Paris and the French; giving an account of their present state and condition: their Virtues and Vices. Their Academies. Their Dress, Devotion, Levity. Their Women. Their Beggars, Writers, Booksellers. Their Diversions. Their Theatres. Their Gallantry, Language, Entertainment of Strangers. Their Lawyers, Pick-Pockets, Physicians and Quacks. The Court, the Great Men, the King and the Mob. The Tuilleries, Lamps, Chymists, and Clergy. Their Notions of Things. Their Horses, Eating-Houses, Liveries. Their Conjugal Affection. Their Luxury, Vanity, Civility, Garrulity. Their Courts of Judicature. Their Invention, Affectation, Labour. Taverns, Climate, Trades-People, Fruit. House-Rent. Taylors. Brokers. Fair of St. Germain. Their Bridges, Buildings, &c. Political Calculations of the number of Houses, Consumption of Food, &c.
French gentleman.Date: 1706- Books
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Les astuces de Paris; anecdotes parisiennes, dans lesquelles on voit les ruses que les intriguans & certaines jolies femmes mettent communément en usage pour tromper les gens simples & les etrangers. Par M. N ***. Premiere Partie.
Nougaret, P. J. B. (Pierre Jean Baptiste), 1742-1823.Date: M.DCC.LXXV. [1775]