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Title: How to Enjoy Paris in 1842
Intended to Serve as a Companion and Monitor, Containing
Historical, Political, Commercial, Artistical, Theatrical
And Statistical Information

Author: F. Herve

Release Date: February 12, 2006 [EBook #17760]

Language: English

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HOW TO ENJOY PARIS IN 1842,

INTENDED TO SERVE AS A COMPANION AND MONITOR

Indicating all that is useful and interesting IN THE FRENCH METROPOLIS,

Containing HISTORICAL, POLITICAL, COMMERCIAL, ARTISTICAL, THEATRICAL AND
STATISTICAL INFORMATION.

AS ALSO A DESCRIPTION Of the manners and customs of the Parisians of the
present day; WITH INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE STRANGER. In Respect to Economy,
and Advice to his general proceedings with the French.

_By F. Herve_

Author of _A Residence in Turkey and Greece_, etc, etc.

ILLUSTRATED BY LITHOGRAPHIC ENGRAVINGS.

PARIS, PUBLISHED BY AMYOT, 6, RUE DE LA PAIX; AND BY G. BRIGGS, 421,
STRAND, LONDON, SUCCESSOR TO LEIGH & CO.
1842.

PREFACE.

In offering the following pages to the public, the author has been
principally influenced by a desire of uniting _useful_ information with
that which he hopes may prove amusing to the reader, endeavouring as
much as possible to keep in view the spirit of the title "_How to enjoy
Paris;_" and having been accustomed to hear such constant and bitter
murmurings from the English, in consequence of their having been so
frequently imposed upon by the Paris shopkeepers, considerable pains and
attention have been devoted to guard the reader against his being
subjected to a