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Title: The Paris Sketch Book Of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh

Author: William Makepeace Thackeray

Posting Date: December 6, 2008 [EBook #2768]
Release Date: August, 2001

Language: English

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Produced by Donald Lainson

THE PARIS SKETCH BOOK OF MR. M. A. TITMARSH

By William Makepeace Thackeray

Estes And Lauriat, Boston, Publishers

CONTENTS.

THE PARIS SKETCH BOOK.

An Invasion of France

A Caution to Travellers

The Fetes of July

On the French School of Painting

The Painter's Bargain

Cartouche

On some French Fashionable Novels

A Gambler's Death

Napoleon and his System

The Story of Mary Ancel

Beatrice Merger

Caricatures and Lithography in Paris

Little Poinsinet

The Devil's Wager

Madame Sand and the new Apocalypse

The Case of Peytel

Four Imitations of Beranger

French Dramas and Melodramas

Meditations at Versailles

DEDICATORY LETTER

TO

M. ARETZ, TAILOR, ETC.

27, RUE RICHELIEU, PARIS.

SIR,--It becomes every man in his station to acknowledge and praise
virtue wheresoever he may find it, and to point it out for the
admiration and example of his fellow-men.

Some months since, when you presented to the writer of these pages a
small account for coats and pantaloons manufactured by you, and when you
were met by a statement from your creditor, that an immediate settlement
of your bill would be extremely inconvenient to him; your reply
was, "Mon Dieu, Sir, let not that annoy you; if you want money, as a
gentleman often does in a strange country, I have a thousand-franc note
at my house which is quite at your service."

History or experience, Sir, makes us acquainted with so few actions
that can be compared to yours,--an offer like this from a stranger and
a tailor seems to me so astonishing,--that you must pardon me for thus
making your virtue public, and acquainting the English nation w