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The Paris Sketch Book
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A lively Parisian notebook of satire, art criticism, street observation, and cosmopolitan sketches.
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The Paris Sketch Book
Thackeray moves between galleries, cafés, theatres, and literary salons, mixing sharp social comedy with the eye of a young travel writer. The book captures nineteenth-century Paris as a city of fashion, ambition, bohemia, and cultural argument.
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Published in 1840; Thackeray died in 1863. The original English text is public domain under the United States term and life-plus-70 rules.
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The Paris Sketch Book
William Makepeace Thackeray
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DEDICATORY LETTER
Preview chapterTO M. ARETZ, TAILOR, ETC. 27, RUE RICHELIEU, PARIS.Preview
SIR,—It becomes every man in his station to acknowledge and praise virtue wheresoever he may find it, and to point it out for the admiration and example of his fellow-men.
Some months since, when you presented to the writer of these pages a small account for coats and pantaloons manufactured by you, and when you were met by a statement from your creditor, that an immediate settlement of your bill would be extremely inconvenient to him; your reply was, “Mon Dieu, Sir, let not that annoy you; if you want money, as a gentleman often does in a strange country, I have a thousand-franc note at my house which is quite at your service.”
History or experience, Sir, makes us acquainted with so few actions that can be compared to yours,—an offer like this from a stranger and a tailor seems to me so astonishing,—that you must pardon me for thus making your virtue public, and acquainting the English nation with your merit and your name. Let me add, Sir, that you live on the first floor; that your clothes and fit are excellent, and your charges moderate and just; and, as a humble tribute of my admiration, permit me to lay these volumes at your feet.
Your obliged, faithful servant, M. A. TITMARSH.
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- 01Full text
- 02DEDICATORY LETTER
- 03TO M. ARETZ, TAILOR, ETC. 27, RUE RICHELIEU, PARIS.
- 04ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FIRST EDITION.
- 05AN INVASION OF FRANCE.
- 06A CAUTION TO TRAVELLERS.
- 07I saw how it had been.—“A little too much of Mr. Ringwood’s claret, I suppose?”
- 08THE FÊTES OF JULY.
- 09IN A LETTER TO THE EDITOR OF THE “BUNGAY BEACON.”
- 10“CELEBRATION OF THE DAYS OF JULY.
- 11ON THE FRENCH SCHOOL OF PAINTING:
- 12WITH APPROPRIATE ANECDOTES, ILLUSTRATIONS, AND PHILOSOPHICAL DISQUISITIONS.
- 13IN A LETTER TO MR. MACGILP, OF LONDON.
- 14M. A. T.
- 15NEWMAN STREET, LONDON.
- 16THE PAINTER’S BARGAIN.
- 17CARTOUCHE.
- 18ON SOME FRENCH FASHIONABLE NOVELS. WITH A PLEA FOR ROMANCES IN GENERAL.
- 19A FRENCH FASHIONABLE LETTER.
- 20THE PAINTER’S BARGAIN.
- 21THE SOUS-PRÉFET.
- 22A FRENCH FASHIONABLE CONVERSATION.
- 23A GAMBLER’S DEATH.
- 24“SOLOMON GORTZ.”
- 25MORAL.
- 26NAPOLEON AND HIS SYSTEM.
- 27ON PRINCE LOUIS NAPOLEON’S WORK.
- 28THE STORY OF MARY ANCEL.
- 29COMITÉ DE SALUT PUBLIC.
- 30I was in amazement.
- 31I produced the order, signed by himself, and the despatches which Schneider had sent me.
- 32BEATRICE MERGER.
- 33CARICATURES AND LITHOGRAPHY IN PARIS.
- 34LITTLE POINSINET.
- 35THE DEVIL’S WAGER.
- 36MADAME SAND AND THE NEW APOCALYPSE.
- 37THE CASE OF PEYTEL:
- 38IN A LETTER TO EDWARD BRIEFLESS, ESQUIRE, OF PUMP COURT, TEMPLE.
- 39FOUR IMITATIONS OF BÉRANGER
- 40LE ROI D’YVETOT.
- 41THE KING OF YVETOT.
- 42THE KING OF BRENTFORD. ANOTHER VERSION.
- 43LE GRENIER.
- 44THE GARRET.
- 45ROGER-BONTEMPS.
- 46JOLLY JACK.
- 47FRENCH DRAMAS AND MELODRAMAS.
- 48“STELLA. MAGDALEN.”
- 49LE BON ANGE.
- 50MEDITATIONS AT VERSAILLES.
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