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Title: A Trip to Paris in July and August 1792

Author: Richard Twiss

Release Date: January 7, 2007 [EBook #20304]

Language: English

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A

TRIP

TO

P A R I S,

IN

JULY and AUGUST, 1792.

_LONDON_:
PRINTED AT THE
Minerva Press,
AND SOLD BY WILLIAM LANE,
LEADENHALL-STREET,
AND BY MRS. HARLOW, PALL-MALL.
M.DCC.XCIII.
PRICE THREE SHILLINGS
Entered at Stationers Hall.

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CONTENTS.

Road from Calais, Unneccessary Passports. Chantilly. 1
Expenses 6
Miscellaneous observations. Chess-men. Tree of
Liberty. Crucifixes. Virgins. Saints. Bishops, Old Women 8
Wall round Paris. New Bridge. Field of the Federation. Bastille 15
Coins and Tokens 19
Theatres 24
Pantheon. Jacobins. Quai Voltaire. Rue Rousseau. Cockades 27
Execution of two criminals with a beheading machine 32
Versailles. Botany, Sounding meridians 38
Dogs and Cats. Two-headed Boy 50
Miscellanies. Books burnt. Chess, Convents 54
Dress. Inns