Retrofpeét of French Literature.—-Mifcellamies. 
who will difpute your miracles, for your 
kingdom’s not of this world. 
«« Atlas Géographique et Statiftique de 
ja France, divifé en cent huit Départ- 
ments, &ce:"—A Geographical and | Sta- 
tiftical Atlas of France, divided into one 
hundred and eight Departments, under the 
direst M. Brion, fen. geographer, 
tion of 
and M. Brion. jun. the aoe 
fed in an 
Thed lepartmerts are here cla 
alphabetical order, except in roped to 
Piemont, the fix of which it ts coimpofed 
being placed at the end of the Atlas. 
«* Origine de Ja a eee ou, Me- 
moires de S'e ephan nie de Vrefs ***, pour 
ferviia l’ Hificire de Nos Guerres Civiles.”’ 
—Origin of Ouduee nry; or, Memoirs of 
tephanie de Trefs ***, 2 vol. r2mo. 
Madame Ch ***, a lady doomed to-be- 
hold her family led to the guillotine; im 
fuccefiion, and experience the upftart in 
fulence of her mether’s* ch aperenid, 
here details fome of tne fcenes which fhe 
witneffed during the Rormy period of the 
revolution. ‘© Oh, my countrymen !” 
fhe exciaims, * do not ever i: 
torches ct civil war ; they have already 
confumed the faireft periion of France, 
and may not the cruel remembrance be 
ever fergo:ten by you.” 
tee Hie author, however, never men- 
tions the Chouans in the firlt volume, and 
in ee courfe of the fecond omits to mrn- 
tion a Gngle word refpefting their origin. 
= Delcriptivn du Départment de I Oise, 
par le Citoyen ee &c.-—A De- 
{cri iption of the Department of the Oife, 
by Citizen ee 3 an 1 and 2, with 
a co:leStion cf for ty-{ fix defcriptive plates. 
This work, which we have already no- 
ticed, is divided into two paris. In the 
firt, the author, who is Prefe& of the de- 
partment, prefents his readers.with a to- 
pographical defeription cf the country, 
as well as an account of its inhabitants, 
their manners and cuitoms, the public 
monuments, antiquities, &c. -In the fe- 
cond, he exhibits a piéture of the riches, 
induftry, population, and refources of the 
territory corfiled to his adminifration. 
The following is the flattering picture 
given of the vicinity of Beauvais: 
‘¢ Nothing is comparab! le,’ fays this 
magiftrate, ‘to the Jandfcapes on the 
borders of the Therain; no country fo 
fertile as that extent of fields, loaded with 
pulfe, towards the fouth-eaft. To thefe 
rich aipects, to thefe fertile lands, fucceed 
immenfe meadows crowded with cattle, 
and groves fo happily difpofed as to ap- 
pear to be anefiort of art, The eye is 
~ 
ing mills were eftadlithed there. 
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led fromeminence to eminence, until every 
thing in the diftance is, at length, con- 
founded with the region of the clouds. 
The neighbouring grounds, feparated by 
various roads, are replete with orchards, 
mills, caftles, and cottages, where the 
labourer readily offers his fruits, his milk, 
and his hofpitality to a ftranger: in fhort, 
IT do not know any Englifh gardens,” 
adds he, ‘* which prefent more riches, or 
mafics more admirably proportioned, than 
thoie to be met with in the neighbour- 
hood of Beauvais.” 
The town itfelf, we are told,.contains 
42,292 inhabitants; it is one of the moft 
ancient within the territories of the Re- 
peblic, in refpe&é to manufafures and 
commerce. No {pecies of loxury what- 
ever reigas there, although the inhabi- 
tants in general] enjoy a certain degree of 
eafe, the truit of their former induitry, as 
well as of their habitual moderation. ‘The 
manners of the people, notwithftanding 
the vicinity of Paris, are reprefented as 
exaly fimilar to thofe of the natives of 
Flanders ; and in confequ-nce of their fe- 
dentary and uniform kind of life, their love 
of feandal has long been proverbial. Al- 
though a catholic town, the practices of 
paganifm are not wholly deftroyed, for 
many veftices ftill remain, fuch as their 
public feftivals, the entertainments given 
at Dose marriages, &c. 
This place, like ions: was former 
ly famous for its manufacture of woollen 
cloth, and fo early as the year 800, full- 
The ey 
volution, however, proved fatal to this 
article of ee but there are at this mo- 
ment, no lefs than eight manufactories ef 
printed cailicoes, which employ near nine 
hundred labourers, and trade to the anaual - 
amount of more hak a million and a half 
of livres. The tapeftry worked there-was 
long famous, and M. Davos ie, the pre- 
fone fuperinte ndant, is famous for his ex- 
cellence in minglisg the various fhades. 
The town’ ot Son 1seons, is famous four 
its manufacture cf the {peétacle and other _ 
glafies, but the workmen do not gain 
above a fiank (about nine-pence half- 
penny) aday, and fome of them are oc- 
cupied, during a portion of the! year, in 
rural employments. By the aid of an in- 
genious contrivance, communicated by 
the Prefest, the polifhers can now finifh 
fourteen glafies ata time, with the fame 
eafe they tor:zerly did one, and women, 
ang even little children, are now empl: aved 
in mounting fpectacles, &c. in whiale- 
bone. 
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