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livres. The lectures and exhibitions have not yet com- 

 menced, and the lix-and-thirty vaulted warehoufes are 1 

 ffill Ihut. When once the whole is in full iwing, and 

 has reached a certain degree of liability, this fpot will 

 be the only one of its kind in Europe. 



Paris, Sept. 30, 1789. 



FROM all I have hitherto wrote, you fee that the 

 concourfe of people in the Palais Royal is never at an end ; 

 and that its public is the moft numerous as well as the, 

 moil wealthy and brilliant of any of the places of refort 

 in this amazing city. The gardens of the Tuilleries, 

 the Luxembourg, the Boulevards, in fhort, none of 

 the promenades, are to be brought into comparifon 

 with the Palais Royal ; and if the Boulevards be of 

 greater extent, and are therefore able to contain ten 

 times as many walkers as the Palais royal, yet the com- 

 pany that frequents them is not by far fo choice, fo 

 brilliant, and fo bewitching. 



Walkers are to be feen at every hour- of the day in 

 the Palais Royal, from nine in the morning till twelve 

 at night ; but their numbers are not alike at every part 

 of the day, and their quality not always of the fame 

 figure and confequence. In the morning about feven 

 o'clock, you meet with none but people who dwell 

 there and are limply vilible. The waiters at the cofFee- 

 lioufes and reftaurateurs are now under the hands of the 

 barbers and frifeurs ; the fhops are Hill ihut ; the 

 jaloulies at the windows are Hill down ; in fliort^ every 



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