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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 11: Paris.—its schools.—January and February, 1838.—Age, 27. (search)
ense, and is the place where the classical drama of France is generally enacted. One may see Moliere and Corneille here. The house is about the size of the Tremont House. The scenery did not strike me as at all better than that of American theatres. The curtain did not fall between the acts, and there was no change of scenery to-night from one end of each play to the other; a new scene was occasioned simply by one of the persons on the stage making his exit, or a new one his entrance. Jan. 9. To-day commenced reading and conversing in French with Madame Laboust,—an English lady who has lived in France fifteen years, and, I believe, is the widow of a French officer. Jan. 10. This morning had a lesson or conversation with my teacher; and after breakfast went, with my friend Shattuck, to visit some of the interesting objects of Le Pays Latin, as the district of the schools is called, and entered the École de Medecine, and the Musee Dupuytren. Thence I passed to the Sorbonne,