THEATRE AT PARIS; 22$ 



and acclamations of bravo. All the reft was extremely 

 ordinary and even childifh. 



The marquis Tulipano is a fop, extravagantly proud 

 of his nobility, and willies to clifplay the dignity and 

 the fentiment of it in all his looks, his movements and 

 attitudes. Hence arifes a caricature, which in Paris is 

 to the laft degree unnatural and laughable ; but the like 

 of which 1 have often feen in Germany, in little refi- 

 dencies, and large cities, and fhall probably fee many 

 fuch in the provincial towns of France. As far as my 

 experience on this head extends the player who did the 

 part of Tulipano, by no means overacted it: but for 

 the experience of the parterre in the theatre de Mon < 

 lieur, he did fo beyond all bounds ; for fome difplays 

 and attitudes, which did not ftrike me at all, occa- 

 sioned fits of laughter without end. I the more rea- 

 dily remark traits of this kind, as they imply a greater 

 degree of culture in the French. The character of Tu- 

 lipano, for producing effect on the parterre of Berlin, 

 Drefden, Vienna, and even that of London, muft have 

 been three times as much more furcharged than here. 



In the evening at Palais royal. Here was again re- 

 peated the diverfion of yefterday, only with greater 

 tumult, a firework of fquibs, crackers, rockets, &c. 

 Hair-dreffers, politicians, favoyards and the like, go- 

 verned and directed the whole, drove away honefh peo- 

 ple out of the galleries, and left, none there but. men 

 and women gazers ; who, moftly with the lofs of their 

 hair, gowns, coats, caps and aprons, made facrifices to 

 their curiofity. The lilies ran about like frightened 

 deer, though finely drefled, and feemed to curfe the 

 patriotifm that raged all round in rags. Every one 



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