Title: Recollections of Paris in the years 1802-3-4-5.
Authors: Pinkerton, John, 1758-1826.
Publisher: Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme [etc.]
Year: 1806
Subjects: Paris (France) Description and travel.
Contents: Volume 1. General Ideas. -- Environs of Paris. -- French Society. -- The Boulevards. -- Neology. -- National Library. -- The Louvre. -- The Garden of Plants. -- State of Literature. -- The national or imperial press, printers and book sellers. -- Considerations on the writings of Rousseau. -- The continuation the State of Nature considered against Rousseau. -- The Palace of the Luxembourg. -- The quarries of Paris. -- Museum of national monuments. -- Learning and literary societies. -- The Savage State considered against Rousseau. -- Exhibition of Piclures 1804. -- Mineralogy of the Environs of Paris. -- Moral Considerations. -- Barbarism considered in Opposition to Rousseau. -- State of medicine. -- Manufacture of the Gobelins. -- Church yards. -- Further progress of society, civilisation considered against Rousseau. -- The new bridges. -- The public baths. -- Origin of government, against Rousseau. -- Streets of Paris. -- New improvements. -- Education. -- Legion of honour. -- Fragments. -- Another glance at the environs of Paris. -- Decline of wit. -- Progress of education. -- The police. -- General reflections. -- Fragments.