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A Trip to Paris in July and August 1792

P A R I S,

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JULY and AUGUST, 1792.

LONDON: PRINTED AT THE Minerva Press, AND SOLD BY WILLIAM LANE, LEADENHALL-STREET, AND BY MRS. HARLOW, PALL-MALL. M.DCC.XCIII. PRICE THREE SHILLINGS Entered at Stationers Hall.

FRONTISPIECE EXECUTIONS at PARIS with a Beheading Machine. Vide page 32.

EXECUTIONS
EXECUTIONS

CONTENTS.

Road from Calais, Unneccessary Passports. Chantilly. 1

Expenses 6

Miscellaneous observations. Chess-men. Tree of Liberty. Crucifixes. Virgins. Saints. Bishops, Old Women 8

Wall round Paris. New Bridge. Field of the Federation. Bastille 15

Coins and Tokens 19

Theatres 24

Pantheon. Jacobins. Quai Voltaire. Rue Rousseau. Cockades 27

Execution of two criminals with a beheading machine 32

Versailles. Botany, Sounding meridians 38

Dogs and Cats. Two-headed Boy50

Dress. Inns 65

Assignats 66

Battle and massacre at the Tuileries 71

Statues pulled down. New names 84

Beheading. Dead naked bodies 90

Courage and curiosity of the fair sex. Massacre in 1572 93

Miscellanies. Number of slain 99

BBreeches. Pikes. Necessary Passports 105

Miscellanies. Dancing. Poultry, Taverns. Wig 111

Extent, Population, &c. of France 116

Emendations and Additions. Return to Calais 123

Epilogue.129

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