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tain thofe articles which it had previoufly promifed to 

 provide. Thefe cafes are become very frequent, efpe- 

 cially lince the revolution. The foreigners have very 

 much fallen off lince that time ; and the nation has 

 fomewhat elfe to mind than the alteration of falhion^ 

 and the decoration of their perfons. The reffaurateurs 

 and cofFee-houfe-keepers are the gainers of what the 

 tradefmen lofe ; for the throng in the Palais royal is 

 greater than ever, and as it is not likely that the ravens 

 will bring them bread and flefli in the morning and 

 bread and flefh in the evening, as they did once to the 

 prophet in the bible, they muft procure it for them- 

 felves, even though they go without every thing elfe. 

 The Citherean cohort have fuffered no lefs in their earn- 

 ings ; and during the firft days of the political ftorm, 

 people cared fo little about them, that even the belt- 

 looking and the beft-drefied of them, came with de~ 

 fponding feces, to the frequenters of the coffee-houfes, 

 to beg for a cup of coffee, or a caraffine of limonade. 

 So that properly fpeaking, the reftaurateurs and cofFee- 

 men are the only people in the Palais royal that can get 

 rich. 



The theatres of the Palais royal are no lefs detrimen- 

 tal to the other theatres, than the Ihops of it are to thofe 

 in the other parts of the town. The vilitors of the Palais 

 royal are fo attached to it by fo many different ties, that 

 it is with great reluctance they go to feek a pleafure, at 

 the diftance of two or three miles from it, which they 

 may find here among a thoufand others. They go out of 

 one entertainment into another entertainment, and from 

 that into entertainment again, and all within the com- 

 pafs of two or three fteps. The Varietes amufantes have 



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