- A.
- Advocates, 223
- Affaire manquée, definition of the term, 44
- Albani, Francesco, his paintings, 32
- Amiens, 6
- Ancienne noblesse, account of, 55, 57
- a ball of, 140
- Antiquities, cabinet of, 16
- Apathy of the french people, 179
- Apollo Belvidere, 16, 18
- Arabian horses, 202
- Archbishop of Paris, 217
- of Tours, 218
- Artistes, théâtre des jeunes, 130
- Athénée, 255
- Aveyron, savage of, 109
- B.
- Bagatelle, garden of, 231
- Ball, a public, 92
- Ball, a private, 140
- Ballets, 123
- Bargains, necessity of making them, 280, 283
- Beggars, 5
- Berthier, general, 139
- Bendette, paintings of, 31
- Blind, Institutions for the, 103
- Boissy d’Anglass, 90
- Bois de Boulogne, 175, 228
- Bonaparte, first consul, account of, 81, 158, 161
- court of, 159
- dinner with, 247
- madame, 43, 188, 220
- Lucien, 188
- Boulevards, 229
- Brun, le, the third consul, 59
- Charles, paintings of, 23
- Burgoing, mademoiselle, 116, 117
- C.
- Calais, 2
- Caravaggio, Michael Angelo Amerigi, 34
- Cardinal legate, 217
- Carnival, 152
- Carracci, Agostino, 33
- Lodovico, 33, 173
- Antonio, 33
- Annibale, ib.
- Carriages, 177, 209, 211
- job, 270
- Castiglione, Gio Benedetto, his paintings, 31
- Cavedone, James, 35
- Champagne, Philip of, 25
- Champ de Mars, 237
- Champs Elisées, 228
- Chantilly, 7
- Claissens, Anthony, 25
- Clotilde, mademoiselle, 124
- Cloud, St., 192
- Comparison between London and Paris, 282
- Concert of the blind, 104
- Conciergerie, 225
- Concordat, 188
- Contat, mademoiselle, 118
- Cornwallis, lord, 67
- Corregio, 35
- Costume of dress, 93, 176
- Cosway, Maria, copying the principal pictures in the Museum for prints, 15
- Court of Bonaparte, 159
- of madame Bonaparte, 188
- Criminal law, 224
- D.
- Dancers, 123, 190
- Dances, 95, 142
- Dancing, 144
- Deaf and dumb, 69
- Dessein’s hotel, 3
- Dinner with Bonaparte, 247
- Domenichino, 35
- Douaine at Calais, 2
- Dover, 1
- Duel, frivolous occasion of one, 233
- Dress, 93, 176
- Durer, Albert, 25
- Dutch school of painting, ib.
- Dyck, Anthony Van, 26, 173
- Philip Van, 27
- E.
- École Militaire, 238
- Edouard en Ecosse, 146
- Élèves, theatre of, 131
- Elephant, account of, 261
- Emigrés, their conduct to the english, 57, 58
- Enfans trouvés, 236
- English language most simple and natural in its construction, 70
- Engravings, cabinet of, 253
- Exorbitant demands at Versailles, 198
- Expenses at Paris, 266
- F.
- Fashions, 176
- Ferrari, Gandertio, 36
- Fête for the peace, 40
- Feydeau, théâtre, 125
- Fire arms, manufacture of, 195
- Fireworks, 50
- Fitzjames, the ventriloquist, 132
- Flemish school of painting, 25
- Fleury, the actor, 119
- Fond, la, 116
- Footmen, english, publicly forbidden to wear laced hats, 178
- Fournisseur, assembly at the house of a, 137
- Fox, Mr., opinion entertained of him, as an orator, in french society, 78
- French school of painting, 23
- Frescati, 231
- Furniture of the houses in Paris, 60, 295
- G.
- Gallery of paintings, 11, 166
- of statues, 16
- Galvanism explained by Massieu, deaf and dumb, 106
- Gambling houses, 99
- Gardens of Paris, 228, 229
- Garden, national, of plants, 260, 261
- Généviève, St., 182
- Gens d’armes, 216
- German school of painting, 25
- Germain, St., 203
- Globes, 250
- Gobelins, 235
- Governmental class of society, 55, 59
- Guards, consular, 84
- Guercino, paintings of, 37, 173
- Guides, les, 215
- Guido, paintings of, 36
- Guillotine, 225
- Gyzen, Peter, 27
- H.
- Hameau de Chantilly, 229
- Harpe, la, 256
- Hayes, de, 190
- Henry, the Fourth, original manuscript of, 252
- Henry, madame, 127
- Holbein, Hans, paintings of, 27
- Horses, 177, 202, 270
- Horsemanship, exhibitions of, 181
- Hospitals, 304
- Hotels, 9, 272
- list of the best in Paris, and their prices, 273
- Houses, description of an elegant Parisian house, 60
- expense of, 267
- I & J.
- Jets d’eau at St. Cloud, 193
- at Versailles, 197
- Illuminations, description of, at Paris, 47, 179, 220
- Indifference in the french people, 179
- Inns, 8
- Institute, national, 259
- Institution for the deaf and dumb, 69
- for the blind, 103
- for les enfans trouvés, 236
- Introduction to Bonaparte, 158
- Invalides, 238
- Italian opera, 42, 128
- Italian school of painting, 31
- Judges of the tribunals, 222
- Justice of a juge de paix at Versailles, 199
- K.
- Kosciusko, 145
- L.
- Lanfranco, 38
- Laocoon, description of the statue, 21
- La partie de chasse de Henri IV, 133
- Laquais de place, expense of, 270
- Lectures, account of, 256
- Legislative body, account of its sittings, 63
- Leonardo da Vinci, paintings of, 38, 173
- Lewis XIV, memoirs of his own times, 251
- Libraries, want of circulating, in Paris, 264
- Library, national, 250
- of the Pantheon, 254
- des quatre nations, 255
- Mazarine, ib.
- of the institute, ib.
- of the legislature, tribunate, senate, &c., ib.
- Literature, advantages in the pursuits of, at Paris, 249
- Lodgings, price of, 272, 273
- London compared with Paris, 282
- Long Champ, 205
- Louvois, théâtre, 127
- Louvre, 11
- Luxembourg, palace of, 181
- Lyceum, 255
- M.
- Malmaison, 203
- Mamalukes, 217
- Manuscripts, cabinet of, 257
- Maria Cosway, her paintings and proposed engravings, 15
- Marley, 203
- Masquerade at Paris, 5
- Massieu, deaf and dumb pupil of l’abbé Sicard, 71, 105
- Mauvais compagnie, definition of the phrase, 54
- Mazarine library, 255
- Medals, cabinet of, 251, 253
- Ménagerie, 260
- Military made use of on trifling occasions, 214
- Mineralogy, collection of, 262
- Mistakes of the french concerning english names, 127
- Molière’s plays, 120
- Molière, théâtre de, 129
- Montreuil, 5
- Monuments, collection of, 242
- Moreau, general, 135
- Monvel, 119
- Mousseux, garden of, 229
- Museum of arts, 11, 166
- of monuments, 239
- N.
- National institute, 259
- National library, 250
- New year’s day kept at Paris, 98
- Noir, le, 240
- O.
- Observatory, 236
- Œconomy of Paris, 267
- Opera, french, 123
- Opera, italian, 42, 128
- Orange, prince of, his introduction to Bonaparte, 159
- Orators, french, 89
- P.
- Paintings, gallery of, 11, 166
- catalogue of, 23, 169
- at Versailles, 195
- restored, 167
- Palace Royal, 99
- of Versailles, 195
- of Justice, 222
- Pantheon, description of, 182
- library of, 254
- Paris, view of, 183, 230
- streets of, 227, 293
- compared with London, 282
- Parvenues, or third class of society, 55, 60
- Passports, 3, 8
- Paul Potter, paintings of, 28
- Payne, of the York Hotel, Dover, 1
- People, better behaved to their superiours since the revolution, 6
- Pettit, madame, 116
- Phantasmagorie de Robertson, 131
- Phyllis, mademoiselle, 126
- Plate glass, manufactory of, 105
- Police, their order, 93
- Pordenone, paintings of, 171
- Portalis, account and speech of, 87
- Poussin, Nicholas, paintings of, 23
- Price of posting, 5
- of the various articles of life, 269
- of tickets for the play, 122, 268, 272
- Printing by the blind, 103
- Provision, price of, 269
- R.
- Raphael, paintings of, 38, 171
- Recommendation, letters of, necessary, 291, 292
- Religion, reestablishment of, 213
- Rembrandt, paintings of, 28
- Restaurateurs, 278
- Restout, paintings of, 24
- Review of troops before Bonaparte, 81
- Road from Calais, 4
- Rousseau, tomb of, 186
- Rubens, paintings of, 29, 171
- S.
- Sacchi, Andrea, paintings of, 172
- Salon des étrangers, 92
- Salvator Rosa, 172
- Savage of Aveyron, 109
- Sèvre, manufactory of, 193
- Shakspeare, opinion of the french concerning him, 77
- Shorthand defined by a deaf and dumb youth, 107
- Sicard, abbé, 69
- Societies, literary and scientific, 249, 264
- Society, state and classes of, in Paris, 53, 74
- Spectacle, definition of the word, 41
- Spectacles, general account of, 116
- Stables of Chantilly, 8
- of Versailles, 202
- Statues, gallery of, 16
- Sueur, le, Eustache, paintings of, 24
- T.
- Tallien, madame, 95
- Talma, 116
- Taxes, 56
- Tea assemblies, 74
- Temple of Mars, 233
- Teniers, the elder and the younger, paintings of, 31
- Texier, 133
- Theatre, general account of, 116
- Comique, rue Feydeau, 125
- de la Gaieté, 131
- de l’Ambigu Comique, 130
- de la République et des Arts, 123
- de Molière, 129
- des jeunes Artistes, 130
- des jeunes Élèves, 131
- du Marais, ib.
- François de la République, 116
- Italian Opera, 42, 128
- Louvois, 127
- Montansier, 129
- sans Pretension, 121
- Vaudeville, 126
- Thuilleries, 10
- Tintoret, paintings of, 173
- Titian, paintings of, 39, 172
- Tivoli, the gardens of, 232
- Tom Jones, a french play, 127
- Traiteurs, a list of the principal, 278
- Trial at Versailles, 199
- Trianon, le Grand, 203
- le Petit, Hôtel at Versailles, exorbitant charges, 198
- garden of, 202
- Tribunal de Cassation, 223
- de la Police Correctionelle, ib.
- Tribunals of justice, 222
- Tribunal, sitting of, 87
- Turenne, tomb of, 245, 247
- Turnpikes, 8
- V.
- Van Loo, Carlo, paintings of, 25
- John Baptist, paintings of, ib.
- Lewis Michael, paintings of, ib.
- Venetian horses at the gates of the Thuilleries, 11
- Veronese, Alexander, paintings of, 38
- Paul, paintings of, ib.
- Versailles, 192, 194
- Vestris, 163
- Vinci, Leonardo da, 38, 173
- Visits, 284
- Vivacity wanted in french society, 80
- Volney, mademoiselle, 116
- Voltaire, tomb of, 186
- W.
- Walse, description of this dance, 142
- Wild boy of Aveyron, 109
- Y.
- York Hotel, Dover, 1
About This Book
A series of travel letters composed after the 1801 preliminaries presents a descriptive tour of Parisian public life, covering palaces, museums, gardens, and notable antiquities alongside portraits of three social groups and domestic arrangements. The writer reports official ceremonies, legislative sessions, parades, and popular fêtes, and offers detailed visits to charitable and scientific institutions for the deaf, the blind, and a celebrated wild child. Theatre performances, balls, and salon conversation are described, together with practical remarks on lodging, roads, and everyday manners, yielding a practical, comparative portrait of early postwar urban society.