PALAIS ROYAL. 4^9 



continues to be fo. Irs cuftomers confift moftly of 

 foreigners, particularly Englifh and Germans, who here 

 can perufe the newfpapers of their own countries. The 

 political proceedings and concerns of the Pariiians do 

 not touch them fo nearly ; and they talk and laugh over 

 them in their own way, and according to their own 

 ideas. It is very handfomely fitted up, and one is as 

 well and as quickly ferved as in any of the reft. Before 

 it, without the arcades, in the garden, it has likewife a 

 great quantity of tables and chairs, and, after the caffe 

 du Caveau and de Foi, it is the molt frequented of any 

 in the Palais Royal. 



The coffee-houfe de la Grotte Flamande has nothing 

 remarkable, which the others have not in a greater de- 

 gree. Its public is the leaft numerous of all, and its 

 locale the fmalleft. It has its name from an artificial 

 grotto conftructed in the cellars, and which a reftaura- 

 teur made choice of for his manfion. It is now gone to 

 ruin. 



But the greater! and livelier! of all the cofTee-houfes 

 of the Palais Royal is the before-named de Foi. It 

 takes up no lefs than feven arcades. The halls are fur- 

 i nifhed with marble flabs, and the walls are handfomely 

 Wainfcotted, againft which are lofty and large looking- 

 glafTes. The tables are large flabs of grey-fprinkled 

 marble, and the tabourets are covered with red Man- 

 chefter. In front of it, with the arcades, in the allee, 

 are tables and an incredible quantity of chairs. This 

 place is the rendezvous of the genteeler fort, who take 

 coffee, liqueurs, limonade, or ices. Here, in the fore- 

 noon about ten o'clock, we meet women of the politer 

 ranks, in fafhionable negligees, at the chocolate par- 



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