« Here we are on the Champs-Elysées, the promenade of the most fashionable and elegant people in Paris.

During the fine season, one can meet the coupées of aristocratic ladies, the barouches of the bourgeois, the “colimaçons” of the frivolous women, the brougham of the dandies and the “cavaliers” and their ladies on sidesaddles riding up and down the avenue. From the Arc de Thiomphe to the Obelisk of the Concorde, from the monument of Napoleon to that of Sesostris, one can meet, greet, envy, admire, hate, and see everything from the latest fashion to the blooming of the first bouquet. »

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