Italian Boulevards

ITALIAN BOULEVARDS.

THIS part of the Italian Boulevards forms the chief promenade in Paris;—where the orders of the day, and particularly of the evening, are, for some to be closely intermixed, and seated (the Parisians living chiefly out of doors, and any thing being deemed preferable to

“ Sitting squat at home,
“ Like Pagod in a niche.”)

upon one, or, more correctly, two rough and rudely constructed chairs, which are to be had at a sous each;—small talk, bagatelle, and “trifles light as air” at a still cheaper rate;—others forming “down the middle, up again, and Da Capo,”—within a short space;—to which is occasionally added, a divertissement into the Café Tortoni (seen in the back round) which, tho' small, is considered to “have that within which passeth shew.”