Identifier: diaryofgirlinfra00brow (find matches)
Title: The diary of a girl in France in 1821
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Browne, Mary, 1807-1833 Teigamouth, Henry Noel Shore, Baron, 1847-1926
Subjects: France -- Description and travel France -- Social life and customs
Publisher: New York : E.P. Dutton and Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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a lion tearing a wolf,and another lion killing a wild boar; on theother was a tiger tearing a bear, and a blood-hound killing a stag—out of the mouths ofthese figures came streams of water. Thefigures are bronze. One of the large water-works, called Le Basin de IObelisque, consistsof a number of pipes in imitation of reeds inthe middle of the basin, which send outa column of water to the height of 75feet: this waterwork was playing very littlewhen we were there—it appeared like abasket of froth. Some of the smaller watersare quite as pretty as the large ones: onerepresents Ceres seated on some sheaves andsurrounded by children. Another, a numberof children, some holding masks, shells, andone a pair of bellows. The one that I likedbest was a small basin, in the middle ofwhich there is a little island which appearsto be made of bronze: on this are six littlechildren playing with flowers, and one oneach side which seems to swim or float. Outof the island rises a column of water. The
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WOMAN WITH THE CURIOUS CAP To face p. 82 i82i) FRENCH TASTE IN DRESS S3 waters looked particularly pretty among thetrees. There were a great many people inthe gardens, and the variety of colours resem-bled a bed of tulips. Some of the peoplewere very oddly dressed. One woman hadon a most extraordinary cap composed ofpink satin and very pretty lace; she had agold chain round her neck, a white gown,and pink cotton apron. (Her cap was not atall common.) The French are very fond ofcolours, and put them on with very bad taste.We saw some people with perhaps a pinkhandkerchief, a blue sash, a coarse cottongown, a yellow bonnet, and green shoes. Wesaw one lady in church with a yellow bonnetspotted with every colour; and another ladywith one side of her bonnet one colour, andthe other another colour. The ladies are ingeneral very plain. We were told that a ladyhaving tried to persuade an English gentle-man that the French ladies were pretty, hetook her to one of the great waterworks,where she

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