Excerpt from Paris in Miniature: Taken From the French Picture at Full Length, Entituled Tableau De Paris, Interspersed With Remarks and Anecdotes, Together With a Preface and a Postface If a peaceable inhabitant of the Alps were told that there is a city in Europe where the inhabitants run their horfes full fpeed againl't their fellow -citizens; that the former, by paying a {mall fine, purchafe the right of doing the fame the next day, he could not believe the report his mind would lhudder at the thoughts of. Fo barbarous a deed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.