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274 OUR FRENCH CORRESPONDENT.
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* Ladies Paris, May 17th, 1862. Mination...
mask A fleeting dissiation 1 fashion and soon vain becaine ostentation a custom . The , and Archbishop devotion of failed Paris to p
interferedbut "Voltaire had converted the nobility and beau monde into revolntio , ? inaireswith . _oixt their ever suspecting anything about it .
to their They h annual therefore chanted pil laug grimage b , hed the at to choir the the Prelate abbey the , il ' s where grims orders , sang instead , and songs went of listening not on with the
most ymns moralin . some y cabaret which , it became p the fashion to frequent . The destruction , of the convent did not destroy the prestige which when
was attached to it . The _Heig-n of Terror had hardly ended into Mesdaines Directory the hands , T agreed allien of , the to Beauharnais revive bourgeois the and , pil and grim ouvriers some age , . other which But celebrities the has spot since possesses of fallen the
proposed some strange to have fascinations the annual for racecourse the great and of La wealth Marche y . at When "Vincennes it was , id
the fashionable world was unanimous in rejecting it , and carre b their efore point last the more aspect successfull of Longch y than they "was had more expected brilliant . The than Sunday it had
amp "ever been in its palmiest in days their of attendance yore , althoug there h the more plebs than of France eiht ; g
hundred were very ladies King numerous were and seated Queen in and the stand divers -houses reigning , an E Princes mperor and and
Princesses Empress , were in the balcony , , to say nothing of the foreign Ministers , Ambassadorsand other European celebrities .
been Within broug , the ht before past month the , Correctional several printers Tribunal and for uniting compositors in a strike have d in Paul
to and Dupont which work the ' took s rest as establishment compositors sentenced place among . to , because be A ' few the fined of workmen some and the imprisoned accused women emp have were loye which been admitted has acquitted M . caused there ,
, of a gr their eat deal operatives of discussion , the directors admission in the newsp of of some females apers of . the into Owin _pi whatever _'inci g * to pal the j trade ournals threats
profession who M . P latel aul Dupont y in advocated which . they They the could alleged succeed , that , wrote were against women the allowed would innovation to enter or of
selves the the latter trades by the by now attempt causing exclusivel . a But reduction y appropriated a visit of to wages the to Imprimerie , and men do they no Dupont good to would injur them e -
convince any reasonable person that such conclusions were too hastily formed . There are about all the sixty women employed reading in it , some and
ruling as irls folders of The and an maximum immens binders e ; establishment and of the composition folders , is done and , those proof by about who stitch a dozen , the _, wages
g minimum leaves . together two francs are not The more compositors than three ' wages franc vary s a from day four , and francs the
to six francsand those . who do the ruling and proof reading obtain , that he lias
fro reason m four to be to s ei atisfie ght d francs with . the The result director of M . says Dupont ' s philanthropy every ,
274 Our French Correspondent.
274 OUR FRENCH CORRESPONDENT .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1862, page 274, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061862/page/58/
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