LETTERS FROM PARIS* 443' 



rag-men and beggar-women faluting one another with 

 Monfieur and Madame. 



But even the broader and more noted ftreets in the 

 central part of the town are by no means fpacious, and 

 are conftantly covered with a jet-black dirt, which 

 is lefs troublefome when it rains than when the fun has 

 dried it to fome degree of confidence. It is then im- 

 poflible to walk firmly, and one is always involuntarily 

 inclining towards the kennel in the middle of the ftreet, 

 which is perpetually fplafhing up, as fiacre after fiacre 

 and carts upon carts are in conftant fucceffion jolting or 

 trotting along them. Woe to him who has white 

 fiockings or a new frock, and cannot afford to hire a 

 fiacre ! The famous fireets St. Honore, St. Dennis, 

 Montmartre, St. Antoine, St. Martin, St. Jacques, de 

 la Harpe, Dauphine, he, are not at all better. This 

 lhews the reafon that there is fuch a neceffity for the 

 multitude of carriages in this city ; and explains at once 

 how fo many thoufands are enabled to get their bread 

 merely by dirty fhoes. 



yet I would not have it thought, that it is not pof- 

 fible to walk dry-mod in all Paris. No ; there are 

 fquares and fireets, which are as pleafant and dry for 

 walkers as the Lufigarten and the Linden in Berlin, the 

 JBaftey round Vienna, the Zwinger at Drcfden, and 

 the quay at Petersburg. For infiance, one may walk 

 with clean fhoes, in the Tuilleries, in the courts of the 

 Louvre, in the palais royal, on the pont neuf and the 

 pont royal, on the old and new boulevards, in the 

 champs Elifees, before the hofpital des invalides, in 

 the gardens of the Luxembourg, on the places Ven- 

 dome, Vicloires and Dauphine, &c. even after it has 

 rained for fome days fuccellively. 



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