44^ LETTERS FROM PARIS- 



clioiceft inclofures for every fpecies of low and refined 

 Toluptuoufnefs. In truth, this fpot called Paris is an 

 unique on the globe of the earth. 



The nearer to the aforefaid centre, the narrower and 

 the dirtier are the ftreets de la Pelleterie, de la Draperie,. 

 du Moulin, in which not a ray of funfhine can penetrate 

 the whole year round ; not far from thefe, beyond the 

 Seine, the ftreets du pet-au~diable, de la Tacherie, de 

 S. Bon, very energetically betray to the nofe their 

 jewifri origin. The ftreets that form avenues about the 

 market des Innocens, with the names, de la Coffone- 

 rie # , Friperie, Cacatrice, des Dechargeurs, Tibautode, 

 Trouffe-vache, du Mort, de la Fromageries, Brife 

 Miche, des Ecrivains, Fort aux Dames -f*, des Capu- 

 cins, de TEmpereur, Saint Fiacre, ForTe aux Chiens, 

 de la Juiverie, de la Limace, Saint Louis, Lamoignon, 

 Mauvaifes Paroles, du Pied de Bceuf, de la Savonnerie, 

 Taille-Pain, Tireboudin, Trop-va-qui-dure : all thefe 

 ftreets, I fay, for the moft part indicate by their names, 

 that they exhale all kinds of fmells ; and indeed no ap- 

 pellatives could be found out more fuitable to them. 

 And I am fure, that if a man were brought blindfolded 

 and fet down at once in this neft of mortly fhort, narrow, 

 black, dirty ftreets, and then, taking off the bandage, 

 ihould be left to guefs where he was : it would be im- 

 poflible for him to imagine that he was ftanding in the 

 inidft of the finefl: capital in the world, till he heard the 



* It is to be obferved, that the delicate Parifians of modern times 

 have changed the ch in this word for Jf, In all the old topographies, 

 it is plainly and bluntly called, rue de la Cochonnerie. 



+ N. B. De la Halle. 



