A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY THROUGH FRANCE AND ITALY. Les libraires sont prévenus que cette édition stéréotype, d'après le procédé de Firmin Didot, ne se vend à Paris, que Chez P. DIDOT l'aîné, imprimeur, aux galeries du Palais national des sciences et arts; Et chez Firmin DIDOT, libraire, rue de Thionville, JOURNEY THROUGH FRANCE AND ITALY: TO WHICH ARE ADDED THE LETTERS TO ELIZA. BY YORICK. STEREOTYPE EDITION. PARIS, PRINTED BY P. DIDOT, THE ELDER, IN THE NATIONAL PALACE OF ARTS AND SCIENces. EIGHTH YEAR. (1800.) = A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY THROUGH FRANCE AND ITALY. THEY order, said I, this matter better in France= You have been in France? said my gentleman, turning quick upon me with the most civil triumph in the world. Strange! quoth I, debating the mat= ter with myself, that one and twenty miles sailing, for 'tis absolutely no further from Dover to Calais, should give a man these rights. I'll look into them: so giving up the argument I went straight to my lodgings, put up half a dozen shirts and a black pair of silk breeches « the coat I have on», said I, looking at the sleeve, « will do, » took a place in the Dover stage; and the packet sailing at nine the next morning = by three I had got sat down to my dinner upon a fricassee'd chicken, so incontestably in France, that, bad I died that night of an indigestion, the whole world could not have suspended the ef= fects of the droits d'aubaine (1) my shirts, and black pair of silk breeches = portmanteau, and all, must have gone to the king of France even the (1) All the effects of strangers (Swiss and Scotch excepted) dying in France, are seized by virtue of this law, though the heir be upon the spot-- the profit of these contingencies being farmed, there is no redress. I |