Notice of M. Willemin's Monumens Français inédits. Miscellaneous Antiquities. Present State of the PARIS. LETTER I. THE BOULEVARDS. PUBLIC BUILDINGS. STREET FOUNTAINS.* SCENERY. Paris, June 18, 1818. You are probably beginning to wonder at the tardiness of my promised Despatch, in which the architectural minutiæ of this City were to be somewhat * [Several Notes in this volume having reference to MoNs. CRAPELET, a Printer of very considerable eminence at Paris, it 'may be proper to inform the Reader that that portion of this Tour, which may be said to have a more exclusive reference to France, usually speaking-including the notice of Strasbourgwas almost entirely translated by Mons. Crapelet himself. An exception however must be made to those parts which relate to the King's Private Library at Paris, and to Strasbourg: these having been executed by different pens, evidently in the hands of individuals of less wrongheadedness and acrimony of feeling than the Parisian Printer. Mons. Crapelet has prefixed a Preface to his labours, in which he tells the world, that, using my more favourite metaphorical style of expression, "a CRUSADE has risen up against the INFIDEL DIBDIN." Metaphorical as may be this style, it is yet somewhat alarming: |