The Paris Spectator: Or, L'hermite De La Chaussée-D'antin. Containing Observations Upon Parisian Manners & Customs At the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century 2
The Paris Spectator: Or, L'hermite De La Chaussée-D'antin. Containing Observations Upon Parisian Manners & Customs At the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century 2
Jouy, Etienne De, 1764-1846
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In this* place, as in every other, there are a* variety of ranks and distificiions, which are nfH ^sy to be account- ed for on ibe score of reason, uAlity,«or merit. Noble flowers, separtrted from the vulgar flou- rish on stands set apart for them, and are not more remarkable for that circumstance than for their scientific name inscribed upon the pot where they grow. Every* succeeding year robs* one flower of the fashion which it bestows upon another.— Each experiences in turn the Hortensian fa...te, and after having formed the delight of the bou- doir and honour of the saloon,^ is reduced to deck the stall of the sausage- vender or tlie window of the sempstress. The disgrace of the superb Datara Arborca is not the least striking 120 THE YIOWER-MARKBT. of these reverses : we have seen it for some time decorate the peristyles of palaces and the ves- tibules and staircases of noble houses ; banish- ed from these places by the Mode^ and exclud- ed even by its qualities from that asylum which, with a growth less majestic and a perfume less powerful, it nniight have found in the abodes of the middle class, it has been condemned to ve- getate at the bottom of the orangery, or in the corner of the court-yard.
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