4jO PALAIS ROY Air, 



how he may fleece the Granger of his money, and 

 laughs at him as loon as he has turned his back. If a 

 man refolves to act from the dictates of a miftaken 

 gallantry, and gives the handfome wife or the pretty 

 daughter of the mopkeeper whatever ihe alks, without 

 requiring abatement, then he may be lure to be co- 

 zened to a threefold degree : for this is certain, , that 

 the women are on this head three times more jewilli 

 than the men ; and that* when they have once per- 

 ceived that it is a pleafure to the rtranger to be ferved by 

 delicate hands, they make him pay fifty per cent, upon 

 the commodity for this fatisfaction. This fpirit of 

 hiipofition is univerfal in all the lliops of the palais 

 royal ; but efpecially in the jewellery and trinket 

 fhops. 



This abufe, which was loudly cried out againfr, 

 gave rife to the Magazins de coufiance a prix fixe. 

 Every article in them has a ticket affixed to it, de- 

 noting the price; and there is no chaffering about it. 

 The proprietor of the magazine abovementioned has 

 accumulated whatever is mod elegant of its kind ; lo 

 that -a milion of livres might be laid out in a Ihort 

 time there, and yet no great vacancies would afterwards 

 be difcernible. However, you are not to imagine that 

 this (hopkeeper (his name is Verrier) has collected to- 

 gether this fumptuous magazine with his own money; 

 or even upon his own credit. The mechanifm of it i* 

 as follows : 



Artifh, workmen, and in general people of all de- 

 fcriptions, who have an elegant piece of furniture, an. 

 ingenious production of art, a new invented machine, 

 &c. to difpofe of, bring it to this magazine. A book 



is 



