"Asmodée," from Paris, ou le livre des cent-et-un / Jules Janin -- "Le gamin de Paris," from Paris, ou le livre des cent-et-un / Gustave d'Outrepont -- "La femme à la mode et la femme élégante en 1833," from Paris, ou le livre des cent-et-un / Eugénie Foa -- Le fils de l'agent de change / Eugène Scribe et Henri Dupin -- "Lettre XXVII," from Lettres parisiennes du Vicomte de Launay / Delphine de Girardin -- "Un bal de grisettes," from Mœurs parisiennes / Paul de Kock -- "Le flâneur," from Les Français peints par eux-mêmes: Encyclopédie morale du dix-neuvième siècle / Auguste de Lacroix -- "La femme comme il faut," from Les Français peints par eux-mêmes: Encyclopédie morale du dix-neuvième siècle / Honoré de Balzac -- Physiologie de la grisette / Louis Huart -- Physiologie du flaneur / Louis Huart -- Physiologie du bourgeois / Henry Monnier.
Summary:
"A collection of humorous French-language works published for a mass audience. Describes the changing society of nineteenth-century Paris, featuring character types such as the flaneur, the grisette, the gamin, and the bourgeois. Includes texts by Paul de Kock, Honoré de Balzac, Delphine de Girardin, Louis Huart, and others"-- Provided by publisher.
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