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THEATRE AT PARIS* 



drew my attention to it, as I expected to fee fome re- 

 markable lufus naturae which might give credibility to 

 the ancient fiction. I was confined merely to the idea, 

 that the cyclops had but one eye, and had forgot that 

 they were withal of a gigantic bulk. This ox was 

 indeed a giant of his fpecies, but he had two eyes. I 

 alked his keeper, why, to avoid fuch miftakes, he had 

 not rather called him, le bceuf geant. He anfwered, 

 that bceufs geants had already been, but never yet a 

 bceuf cyclope. To this there was no replying. 



Betides this ox I embraced the opportunity of feeing 

 a multitude of monkies, tigers, learned dogs, and 

 every thing that was to be beheld of the kind. 



In the evening at palais royal. Here the news wa.s 

 brought that feveral members of the nobility and clergy 

 had ftruck to the deputies of the tiers-etat. There 

 was nothing to be heard but a wild tumultuous joy. 

 Ten thoufand men, women, girls, boys were ftanding 

 together in detached multitudes lifteningto thefpeakers 

 and readers. All at once down fell a grenade from the 

 uppermoft ftory of the palais and burft among one of 

 the thicker!: of them. The joy occalioned by the mif- 

 chief that was done, was taken for patriotifm by the 

 ravifhed politicians ; and, inltead of fearching for the 

 fcoundrel and taking him up for his frolic, they one 

 and all cried bravo, bravo ! and made fuch a noife 

 with their clappings that the whole palace refounded. 

 Scarcely ten minutes afterwards, when the fquibs, 

 crackers, rockets, grenades, and balloons, began to 

 fiy about at an enormous rate on all fides, and fuch a 

 noife and fcampering took place, as if the mob had 

 been feized with a fudden frenzy, which continued 



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