Pictures of the French: a series of literary and graphic delineations of French character (1840)
Janin, Jules Gabriel, 1804-1874 · London, W. S. Orr and co. · leaf 236
below, astride uponenormous broomsticks. They all of them wear faded pink hats, worm-eaten pucesilk gowns, patent pattens, tricoloured umbrellas, and spectacles. They are to bemet with by day in the Palais Royal, or upon the Boulevarts, warming their witheredcarcasses in the sun. These old harpies… … 142 the actresss mother. Parisian stage, and passed advantageously through the ordeal of opera-glasses, fromthe stage-boxes and the stalls, she is sure to have a call the following morning froman old woman, exactly corresponding to the description just given, who looks uponher with an air of…
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