Transcriber's Note:
Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation in the originaldocument have been preserved.
The errata listed at the end of the "Embellishments" were correctedin this edition.
PARIS AND THE PARISIANS
IN 1835.
VOL. I.
Preparing for publication, by the same Author,
In 3 vols. post 8vo. with 15 Characteristic Engravings.
THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES
OF
JONATHAN JEFFERSON WHITLAW
OR,
SCENES ON THE MISSISSIPPI.
Paris and the Parisians,
in 1835.
VOL. I.
Drawn & Etched by A. Hervieu.
London:
Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street.
Publisher in Ordinary to His Majesty,
1835.
PARIS
AND
THE PARISIANS
IN 1835.
BY FRANCES TROLLOPE,
AUTHOR OF "DOMESTIC MANNERS OF THE AMERICANS,"
"TREMORDYN CLIFF," &c.
"Le pire des états, c'est l'état populaire."—Corneille.
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. I.
LONDON:
RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET,
Publisher in Ordinary to His Majesty.
1836.
LONDON:
PRINTED BY SAMUEL BENTLEY,
Dorset Street, Fleet Street.
PREFACE.
From the very beginning of reading and writing—nay,doubtless from the very beginning ofspeaking,—Truth, immortal Truth has been theobject of ostensible worship to all who read andto all who listen; and, in the abstract, it is unquestionablyheld in sincere veneration by all:yet, in the detail of every-day practice, the majorityof mankind often hate it, and are seen tobear pain, disappointment, and sorrow more patientlythan its honoured voice when it echoesnot their own opinion.
Preconceived notions generally take a muchfirmer hold of the mind than can be obtained byany statement, however clear and plain, whichtends to overthrow them; and if it happen thatthese are connected with an honest intention ofvibeing right, they are often mistaken for principles;—inwhich case the attempt to shake themis considered not merely as a folly, but a sin.
With this conviction strongly impressed uponmy mind, it requires some moral courage topublish these volumes; for they are written inconformity to the opinions of ... perhaps none,—and,worse still, there is that in them which maybe considered as contradictory to my own. HadI before my late visit to Paris written a bookfor the purpose of advocating the opinions I entertainedon the state of the country, it certainlywould have been composed in a spirit by nomeans according in all points with that manifestedin the following pages: but while profitingby every occasion which permitted me to mixwith distinguished people of all parties, I learntmuch of which I was—in common, I suspect, withmany others—very profoundly ignorant. I foundgood where I looked for mischief—strength whereI a