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[F] _Paul Gilladeau_ who lately left the Silver Lion, at _Calais_,
has, I am informed, opened a Livery Stable at _Paris_, upon the
_London_ plan, in partnership with _Dessein_, of the _Hotel
d'Angleterre_ at _Calais_: a convenience much wanted, and
undertaken by a man very likely to succeed.
The beauties, the pleasures, and variety of amusements, which this city
abounds with, are, without doubt, the magnets which attract so many
people of rank and fortune of all nations to it; all which are too well
known to be pointed out by me.--To a person of great fortune in the
_hey-day_ of life, _Paris_ may be preferable even to _London_; but to
one of my age and walk in life, it is, and was ten years ago, the least
agreeable place I have seen in France.--Walking the streets is extremely
dangerous, riding in them very expensive; and when those things which
are worthy to be seen, (and much there is very worthy) have been seen,
the city of _Paris_ becomes a melancholy residence for a stranger, who
neither plays at cards, dice, or deals in the principal manufacture of
the city; i.
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