Paris and the Parisians in 1835 Author:Frances Milton Trollope General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1836 Original Publisher: Harper Subjects: Paris (France) History / Europe / France Travel / Europe / France Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition... more » of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: I wonder if these people ever grow old -- that is, old as we do, sitting in the chimney-corner, and dreaming no more of fetes than of playing at blind-man's-buff. I have certainly seen here, as elsewhere, men, and women too, grayheaded and wrinkled enough to be as solemn as the most venerable judge upon the bench; but I never saw any that did not seem ready to hop, skip, jump, waltz, and make love. LETTER XXI. Hiatory of the Vicomte de B . -- His opinions -- State of France -- Expediency. I Have had a curious conversation this morning with an old gentleman whom I believed to be a thorough legitimate, but who turns out, as you will see, something else -- I hardly know what to call it -- doctrinaire I suppose it must be, yet it is not quite that either. But before I give you his opinions, let me present himself. M. le Vicomte de B is a person that I am very sure you would be happy to know anywhere. His residence is not in Paris, but at a chftteau that he describes as the most profound retirement "imaginable; yet it is not more than thirty leagues from Paris. He /s a widower, and his only child is a daughter, who has been some years married. The history of this gentleman, given as he gave it himself, was deeply interesting. It was told with much feeling, some wit, and no prolixity. Were I, however, to attempt to repeat it to you in the same manner, it would become long and tedious, and in every way as unlike as possible to what it was as it came fresh from the living fountain. In brief, then, ...« less