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ties ; and, from five in the afternoon till midnight, 

 taking ices of various forts. The latter are prefented 

 in thefe cofFee-houfes in a perfection and diverfity that 

 I have never met with any where elfe. 



Old financiers, military men and mag ifi rates, men 

 of letters, perfons in office and abbes, form the main 

 body of this public, and young officers, beaux and 

 belles of every fort the brilliant part of it. Among 

 them "lit old ladies, fome of them already with making 

 heads, who here meet again the adorers of their youth, 

 defcanting on the prefent times and men and manners, 

 and taking a review of the pail.. Into the hall irfelf no 

 female enters ; what they alk for is carried out to them 

 by the waiters. 



To this coffee-houfe likewife belong two of the little 

 pavilions, in the garden, oppoiite to it. Thefe are the 

 continuation of the great one ; and we always meet with 

 company in them. 



This cofree-houfe played no iniignificant part in the 

 revolution. Previous to it, every one here, as you 

 may imagine, fpoke up for the fir ft and fecond ranks, 

 while they were raving for the third in the caffe du 

 Caveaij. A fort of jealoufy thus always prevailed be- 

 tween the two, and they were as long in coming to asi 

 agreement, as the three parties in the national afTem- 

 bly. But, as the two firft heads that were cut off were 

 carried through the Palais Royal, the terror that was 

 felt at the mocking fpe&acle, drove here, as it did at 

 - Ver fillies, the firft and the fecond ranks, without con- 

 ditions, to the third ; and I perfectly well remember 

 that, for fome days after, the coffee-houfe de Foi was 

 tincomrnonly empty; The molt furious orators ftaid 



away. 



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