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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 476

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wn and surplice,were never suffered to be out of his sight. If a regiment passed through the town,none so curious as he to see it march by ; but the gay show produced upon him aneffect perfectly different to that which it produced on us. A battalion of the Guards,which filed down the College street… … THE artists friend. 301 the very walls, where cross-hilted sabres, and moustachioed warriors, chalked indifferent directions, replaced the fat-faced abbes, with their conical caps, which weused to sketch there, looking like so many pumpkins, each surmounted by a dice-box.Sometimes even a timid hand…

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