The American in Paris, during the summer : being a companion to the "Winter in Paris;", or Heath's picturesque annual for 1844 . s join the train of the sportsmen; for amoment the old passion re-appears; but it is with these tran-sitory huntsmen as with the Master of the Buck-hounds in theforest of Fontainebleau ; an invisible phantom ! which causesfar more alarm than real mischief, to the game in the forest. At the present day, then, allusion is scarcely made to suchamusements as these, except in the Royal Almanac of formertimes. Perhaps you would not be sorry to know, what becomesof the old
The American in Paris, during the summer : being a companion to the "Winter in Paris;", or Heath's picturesque annual for 1844 . s join the train of the sportsmen; for amoment the old passion re-appears; but it is with these tran-sitory huntsmen as with the Master of the Buck-hounds in theforest of Fontainebleau ; an invisible phantom ! which causesfar more alarm than real mischief, to the game in the forest. At the present day, then, allusion is scarcely made to suchamusements as these, except in the Royal Almanac of formertimes. Perhaps you would not be sorry to know, what becomesof the old almanacs. To a philosophical traveller, an old alma-nac is a prolific source of morality, wisdom, and learning. In these little books, which each year carries off, just as thewind of autumn carries away the leaves of the forest, you willfind, expressed in the simplest terms, all the grandeur and allthe vanities of the world. Do you know any thing morelamentable to read, than the almanacs which contain the mostglorious names of this house of Bourbon, which has not itsequal under the sun ? To each of these names before which. THE ROYAL ALMANAC. 27 the earth bows, the French might reply, died upon the scaffold!The king ? the queen ? Madame Elizabeth of France . diedupon the scaffold ! After these august names, the royal alma-nac inscribed upon its proud Ust, all the great dignitaries ofthe church and the court, the cardinals, the archbishops, thebishops, the lay abbots,—beheaded, robbed, banished, crushedbeneath the wrecks of the temple and the altar ! Then camethe parliaments, the supreme courts, the members of the royalhousehold, the kings secretaries to the number of nine hundred,who were enjoined to be faithful amanuenses ! After whichshone out most brilliantly the royal order, the noblest and mostadmired of the orders of Europe, with those of the Garter andthe Golden Fleece, the order of the Holy Ghost and the orderof Saint Louis, and those of Saint Lazarus, of Jerusalem, a
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