Galignani's New Paris Guide: Containing an Accurate Statisticaland Historical Description of All the Institutions, Public Edifices ... an Abstract of the Laws Affecting Foreigners ... to which is Added a Description of the Environs. the Whole Compiled from the Best Authorities, Carefully Verified by Personal Inspection, and Arranged on an Entirely New Plan

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A. and W. Gaglgnani and Company, 1846 - 566 pagine
 

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Pagina 404 - Enfants sans souci, who acted farces enlivened with songs. About the year 1570, several Italian companies came to Paris, but their representations exciting the jealousy of the Confreres de la Passion, whose privileges were always respected by the Parlement, their continuance was not of long duration. Shortly afterwards the French stage began to...
Pagina 287 - Beyond these are four other bas-reliefs : the offering of Abraham ; the departure of Abraham for Canaan ; Job beholding the destruction of his flocks and herds by a torrent ; and Job reproved by his wife.
Pagina 72 - France, 25 courts of appeal were created in the principal towns, and the whole Ordre Judiciaire was made subordinate to a grand judge, Minister of Justice. In like manner, one imperial University, consisting of as many academies as there were courts of appeal, was established for all France, under the direction of a council and a grand master. Upon the restoration in 1814, Louis XVIII.
Pagina 31 - Plate and jewellery for the use of travellers, free, if not exceeding the weight of 5 hectogrammes. Parties going to reside in France, and wishing to take their furniture, linen, plate...
Pagina 411 - ... a covered gallery. On both fronts is a range of Corinthian pilasters, with an entablature pierced by small windows : there are two other stories, an attic, and a deep roof crowned by a terrace.
Pagina 157 - The visitor's attention will be attracted by the unusual size of a great number of the vases, particularly those on the marble tables, and to the high state of preservation of most of them. The wealth and refinement of Herculaneum and Pompeii are represented here, and even most of the utensils of domestic life may be seen in these, cases. A collection of glass vases, another of bronze instruments, and another of cameos and gems, will not escape the visitor's attention. The ceilings...
Pagina 289 - Septentrional, is a statue of the Virgin crushing the dragon. In the tympan above are the Nativity, the Adoration of the Wise Men, the Presentation in the Temple, the Massacre of the Innocents, the Flight into Egypt, and five scenes of the Deliverance of Demoniacs. Above sits a monarch presenting a sealed volume to suppliants kneeling. The Porte Rouge is surmounted by a triangular canopy.
Pagina 355 - DUPCYTBEN, 15, rue de 1'ficole de Medecine. — This museum contains many curious and rare specimens, some probably unique. It is especially rich in diseased osseous structures, and one or two of the luxations are exceedingly curious. The collection contains a heart in which the...
Pagina 72 - Courts of appeal ; and at the same time did away with the council and grand master of the University, but kept up the academies. The council was afterwards re-established under the title of Conseil Royal de...
Pagina 401 - M ounces; a fine specimen of native silver from Mexico, and the different combinations of silver with sulphur and antimony, and the carbonic and muriatic acids ; specimens of platina ; quicksilver ; lead, in every combination...

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