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apt, &c. -In the autumn, 1804, 
rainettes, weighing more than a 
pound, and of excellent flavour, 
were brought from T'ressancourt, 
two leagues beyond St. Germaine. 
The chesnuts of Lyons are large and 
celebrated. Almonds ripen at 
Paris, and are highly beneficial to 
the stomach, by diminishing acri- 
mony from hile or other causes. In 
the form of orgeat they become a 
febrifuge. Figs and melons, as 
already observed, never appear at 
the desert, but accompany the 
boiled beef. 
The Wednesday club consists of 
loves of good cheer, who assemble 
at Le Gacques’s, in the garden of 
the Tuilleries, The perpetual pot 
of the street Grands-Augustins, is 
said to have been in activity for 
more than a century, and is always 
well replenished with capons. Green 
pease are preserved in salt; when 
boiled they are thrown into cold 
water, which restores their frésh- 
mess and colour; they are then 
warmed with butter and = sugar. 
Sugar also is often used. with spi- 
nach. 
The- best oysters come from 
Dieppe, Cancale, Marréne, Etretat, 
and Grandville. Cahors is cele- 
‘brated for partridges, wine, truffles, 
-eels, cheese, and fine bread ; and is 
thus of singular eminence in Apician 
geography. 
Gluttony is of all ages. A little 
boy, in the middle of a great re. 
past, having no longer any appe.~ 
tite, began to cry; being asked the 
¢ause, ** Oh, (says he) I can cat no 
more ;’—“‘ But put some in your 
ockets.””—** Alas, they are full,” 
replied the child <A_ little girl 
hearing a conyeysation, whether 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1806. 
gluttony or liquorishness gaye the 
most pleasure, said, ** I prefer 
being liquorish, because it does not 
take away the appetite ? Children, 
and even women will pocket sweet- 
meats from the table, while in other 
countries such a practice would sa- 
your of very bad breeding. | After 
eating eggs it is usual to break the 
shells, a fragment of ancient super- 
stition, as it was thought that 
witches made use of them. to pro- 
cure shipwrecks, 
The bustard, and the cock of the 
woods, or in French} of the heath, 
about the size of a peacock, are not 
unusual in the shops of eatables at 
Paris. ‘The latter’ is chiefly from 
the mountains of Vosges. 
go much for the luxury of the ta- 
ble; the luxury of the houses is 
often extreme, particularly in the 
boudoir. \\indows over the fire- 
place were invented for a farmer- 
general, who was contined by the 
gout, and wished to enjoy the pro- 
spect of his garden. The luxury of 
equipages is on the increase, but 
that of beautiful jockies must’ be 
passed in silence, though known 
even by advertisements in the news- 
papers. ‘The worshippers of Venus, 
or, as they are here called cmateurs, 
may at Paris gratify every taste and 
caprice with females of all countries 
and complexions; moral liberty 
being complete, and aberrations 
only reprobated by ridicule, while 
civil liberty does not find the cli- 
mate so favourable. Nor must the 
luxury of the theatres be forgotten, 
particularly the grand and expen- 
sive opera: so that, in this respect, 
Paris probably rivals ancient Rome, 
or any other luxurious metropolis, 
ancient or modern, 
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