245. (Report by Bacon, Vent?se 25,
year II.)
[89] Ibid. (Report by Perri?re, Vent?se 26.)
[90] Ironical, slang for a hog. TR.
[91] Ibid., 245. (Report by Bacon, speech of an orator to the general
assembly of the section "Contrat-Social," Vent?se 25.)
[92] "Un Sejour en France." (Sep., 1792.) Letter of a Parisian: "It is
not yet safe to walk the streets in decent clothes. I have been
obliged to procure and put on pantaloons, jacket, colored cravat and
coarse linen, before attempting to go outdoors." - Beaulieu, "Essais,"
V., 281. "Our dandies let their moustaches grow long; while they
rumpled their hair, dirtied their hands and donned nasty garments.
Our philosophers and literary men wore big fur caps with long fox-
tails dangling over their shoulders; some dragged great trailing
sabers along the pavement - they were taken for Tartars . . . . In
public assemblies, in the theatre boxes, nothing was seen in the front
rows but monstrous red bonnets. All the gal?riens of all the convict
prisons in Europe seem to have come and set the fashion in this superb
city which had given it to all Europe." - " Un S?jour en France," p.
43. (Amiens, September, 1792.
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