The Auto-Biography of Edward Gibbon, Esq: Illustrated From His Letters, With ...
The Auto-Biography of Edward Gibbon, Esq: Illustrated From His Letters, With ...
Edward Gibbon, John Holroyd Sheffield (Earl Of)
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QIBBON AT PABIS.
' i . Ill I ■■ I I , I , w I ■ ' I ■ f I * ■ ' I I » I i< The society of Madame du Socage was more soft and moderate than that of her rivals, and the evening conver- sations of M. de Foncemagne were supported by the good sense and learning of the principal members of the Academy of Inscriptions. The opera and the Italians I occasiopally visited; but the French theatre, both in tragedy and comedy, was my daUy and favourite amuse- BOthiBg of tile antiqiiary «boat him but a great depth of emditioD. I inigbed tho eyeniog by a very agreeable sapper at Bladame Bontem't with the Marquis de Mirabeaa. He is a singular man; he has imaginatkm enough for ten more, and not enough sound sense for hhnself alone. I asked him several questions about the titles of the French nobility; but all I coald understand was, that nobody has yeiy clear ideas about them.
May^ 17Q3.]— Fortified with a double letter of recommendation for the Con^te de Caylus, I imagined that I should find, united in him> the man of letters and the man of quality.
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