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Excerpt from A Faggot of French Sticks: Or, Paris in 1851 Nearly forty years ago I happened to be in Paris for three or four months. Lately, on a very short notice, I had occasion to go to it again. Being detained there rather more than three weeks by an oculist, whose prescriptions conned me to the house several hours a day, I eked out the rest of my time by taking a few notes. In passing through London I had hastily obtained eight or ten letters of introduction; but, as on reading Galignani's excellent guide-book, I found that every thing I could reasonably desire to see would, on application in writing, or on the production of my passport, be thrown open to me - with almost a single exception - I returned the whole of them, preferring to throw myself on the hospitality of the public authorities of Paris, rather than be indebted to, and probably embarrassed by, private favours. During my brief residence in the French metropolis, excepting three days, I dined and breakfasted by myself. I never entered a theatre; only once a cafe. I neither paid nor received visits. In short, I totally abstained from any other society than that which I had the happiness to enjoy in the public streets. 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."