45$ PALAIS ROYAL. 



fey feme time till It is ready? The waiters are not fo 

 brifk and alert as one could wifli them ; at leaft they 

 are not fo quick and lively as thofe at La Barriere's. 

 The cook, or rather the cooks, are not fo expeditious., 

 and one is obliged to wait too long for any particular 

 difh. Unpardonable negligences in a houfe where every 

 thing is paid for at fuch an extravagant rate. There 

 are yet two other reaiens which operate as much as the 

 foregoing ; and thefe are : that people muft: go up two 

 flights of flairs to come at this reftaurateurs, whereas 

 La Barriere has his principal room on the ground floor ; 

 and fecondly, before one gets to Bouvillier's dining- 

 room one has to pafs by the kitchen, from whence you 

 are ftruck with fuch ftifling fumes ariling in difgufting 

 commixture from a hundred various meats and veffels 

 all reeking at once as muft deprive of all appetite a man 

 of delicate nerves or a weak ftornach ; then again, the 

 fhocking fight of joints of meat, garbages of fowls and 

 fifh, mangled flefh and raw cuttlets lying amidft blood 

 and bones ; a man muft have the maw of a cormorant 

 that can brave all this. 



At La Barriered you not only meet with none of 

 thefe inconveniences, but inftead of them a hundred 

 fatisfactions. His fituation, in the firft place, is ex- 

 tremely prepofleffing. His grand room is on the ground 

 floor, among the arcades of the crofs wing, and from 

 large chearful windows gives you a profpecl of the 

 main promenade of the garden on one fide, and the 

 other looks into the lively Paffage du Perron. At his 

 houfe I have conftantly made my meals, when not 

 otherwife engaged, ever fince I have been here; be- 

 caufe I chufe to be always in die, centre of the revolution, 



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