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ARAGO (Jacques). Comme on dîne à Paris. Paris, Berquet and Pétion, 1842. - Comme on dîne partout. Paris, La Librairie curieuse de Bohaire, s.d. (1842). 2 works in one vol. in-12, eggplant half-chagrin, spine ribbed and decorated (Binding of the time). I) 291 pp. - II) 202 pp. Original editions. Amusing collection of anecdotes about Paris restaurants, their butlers and the sometimes unexpected services: dinner at the syringe, dinner at 8 sous, dinner at the British Catcomb, dinner at 20 francs, dinner Laveilleuse... "Picturesque description of a world of customers who come out of both the Human Comedy and the mysteries of Paris" (Oberlé). Comme on dine partout gathers several amusing stories about the cuisine of Patagons, Hottentots, Caffres, Papuans, shipwrecked people, cannibal witch-doctors... The writer Jacques Arago (1790-1854), brother of the physicist and politician François Arago, was also an explorer: in 1817, he had participated in the scientific voyage of the Uranie, directed by Freycinet. Freckles, wetness. Vicaire, 36 - Oberlé, Fastes, 399.
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ARAGO (Jacques). Comme on dîne à Paris. Paris, Berquet and Pétion, 1842. - Comme on dîne partout. Paris, La Librairie curieuse de Bohaire, s.d. (1842). 2 works in one vol. in-12, eggplant half-chagrin, spine ribbed and decorated (Binding of the time). I) 291 pp. - II) 202 pp. Original editions. Amusing collection of anecdotes about Paris restaurants, their butlers and the sometimes unexpected services: dinner at the syringe, dinner at 8 sous, dinner at the British Catcomb, dinner at 20 francs, dinner Laveilleuse... "Picturesque description of a world of customers who come out of both the Human Comedy and the mysteries of Paris" (Oberlé). Comme on dine partout gathers several amusing stories about the cuisine of Patagons, Hottentots, Caffres, Papuans, shipwrecked people, cannibal witch-doctors... The writer Jacques Arago (1790-1854), brother of the physicist and politician François Arago, was also an explorer: in 1817, he had participated in the scientific voyage of the Uranie, directed by Freycinet. Freckles, wetness. Vicaire, 36 - Oberlé, Fastes, 399.
