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THE PARIS SKETCH BOOK
OF MR. M. A. TITMARSH
THE IRISH SKETCH BOOK
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THE PARIS SKETCH BOOK
OF MR. M. A. TITMARSH
AND
THE IRISH SKETCH BOOK
BY
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY
_With Illustrations by the Author_
London
MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED
NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1902
CONTENTS
THE PARIS SKETCH BOOK
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An Invasion of France 1
A Caution to Travellers 12
The Fêtes of July 27
On the French School of Painting 35
The Painter’s Bargain 51
Cartouche 64
On some French Fashionable Novels 76
A Gambler’s Death 95
Napoleon and his System 104
The Story of Mary Ancel 116
Beatrice Merger 133
Caricatures and Lithography in Paris 139
Little Poinsinet 162
The Devil’s Wager 175
Madame Sand and the New Apocalypse 185
The Case of Peytel 208
French Dramas and Melodramas 233
Meditations at Versailles 251
THE IRISH SKETCH BOOK
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CHAPTER I
A Summer Day in Dublin, or there and thereabouts 271