Although by birth and by art essentially Parisian, there was something in his appearance and manner of speaking that often suggested an Englishman.

Madame Récamier is curious as the arch-type of this race, so purely, thoroughly, exclusively Parisian.

A foreigner, a Russian, Monsieur A J, who has inhabited Paris for ten years, and is consequently Parisian, has given me the following information, of which I took hasty note: "At half-past one o'clock to-day a group, of which I made one, was formed in the place of the New Opera-house.

He had put on evening clothes of decidedly Parisian cut, clothes which he had used abroad and had brought back with him, but which I had never known him to wear since he came back.

Madame Récamier is curious as the arch-type of this race, so purely, thoroughly, exclusively Parisian.