[Illustration: FRONTISPIECE EXECUTIONS _at_ PARIS _with a Beheading Machine_. _Vide page 32_]

A

TRIP

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P A R I S,

IN

JULY and AUGUST, 1792.

_LONDON_: PRINTED AT THE Minerva Press, AND SOLD BY WILLIAM LANE, LEADENHALL-STREET, AND BY MRS. HARLOW, PALL-MALL. M.DCC.XCIII. PRICE THREE SHILLINGS Entered at Stationers Hall.

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CONTENTS.

Road from Calais, Unneccessary Passports. Chantilly. 1 Expenses 6 Miscellaneous observations. Chess-men. Tree of Liberty. Crucifixes. Virgins. Saints. Bishops, Old Women 8 Wall round Paris. New Bridge. Field of the Federation. Bastille 15 Coins and Tokens 19 Theatres 24 Pantheon. Jacobins. Quai Voltaire. Rue Rousseau. Cockades 27 Execution of two criminals with a beheading machine 32 Versailles. Botany, Sounding meridians 38 Dogs and Cats. Two-headed Boy 50 Miscellanies. Books burnt. Chess, Convents 54 Dress. Inns 65 Assignats 66 Battle and massacre at the Tuileries 71 Statues pulled down. New names 84 Beheading. Dead naked bodies 90 Courage and curiosity of the fair sex. Massacre in 1572 93 Miscellanies. Number of slain 99 Breeches. Pikes. Necessary Passports 105 Miscellanies. Dancing. Poultry, Taverns. Wig 111 Extent, Population, &c. of France 116 Emendations and Additions. Return to Calais 123 Epilogue 129

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PARIS.

ROAD FROM CALAIS. UNNECESSARY PASSPORTS. CHANTILLY.

THE following excursion was undertaken for several reasons: the first of which was, that though I had been many times in Paris before, yet I had not once been there since the Revolution, and I was desirous of seeing how far a residence of a few years in France might be practicable and agreeable; secondly, a Counter-Revolution, or, at least, some violent measures were expected, and I was willing to be there at the time, if possible; and lastly, I wanted to examine the gardens near Paris.

Table of contents (by pages)

• 1: A Trip to Paris in July and August 1792 by Twiss
• 2: All and every one of which were gratis
• 3: The country all around Chantilly
• 4: But not one with the cockade in its proper place
• 5: He was then created a Bienheureux
• 6: Being eight hundred yards long and four hundred broad
• 7: Round this is Monneron Freres Negocians a Paris
• 8: 8 Note 8 This and the former echanger
• 9: Note 9 These Boulevarts were made in 1536
• 10: Hitherto cockades of silk had been worn
• 11: The most ancient is engraven on wood
• 12: The windows of the Place de Greve were
• 13: The annexed figure represents a single plant
• 14: About three miles from the fauxbourg Saint Antoine
• 15: That I passed the winter of 1783 and 1784
• 16: The action of the arteries was plainly seen under the skin
• 17: Which however terminated at the same anus
• 18: 16 with the intention of playing a game at chess
• 19: Which are said to be the busts of Abelard and Eloisa
• 20: If his fiddle stick were not broken
• 21: Besides the national assignats
• 22: Battle and massacre at the tuileries
• 23: They have already killed a hundred Marseillois
• 24: The Swiss continued their fire
• 25: With troops of the sans culottes running about
• 26: It was an equestrian statue in bronze
• 27: They dragged a man to the Hotel de Ville
• 28: Which was presented to Catherine of Medicis
• 29: 30 Note 30 The king was shooting from the Louvre
• 30: There would be relache au theatre respite
• 31: A pike man got on the top of the Tuileries
• 32: No passports could be delivered
• 33: Conseil permanent le 20 Aoust 1792
• 34: And red Frontignan at 6 livres
• 35: Amounts to the three millions beforementioned
• 36: And by not having any unnecessary clergymen to maintain
• 37: Aix and Toulouse Thus there are eighty three bishopricks
• 38: After the fashion of the Sans culottes