Pictures of the French, a series of literary and graphic delineations of French character (1840)
Janin, Jules Gabriel, 1804-1874, Cormenin, Louis-Marie de Lahaye, vicomte de, 1788-1868 · London : W.S. Orr · leaf 416
g within the walls of their tightened coat, which seems determined ongiving their aged form an air of adolescence in spite of all the resistance of the carcase.The good gentlemen may be seen wriggling along the Allee des Feuillans, sup-porting themselves firmly, but hypocritically, upon canes which… … up in a high black cravat of the fashion of theDirectory, intended to conceal the flaccid undulationsof the skin about the regions of the lower jaw. Undera hat, exempt from all reproach, they contrive, by dintof pulling and twisting, to collect in tufts on either sideof the face, a few hairs…
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