APPENDIX. [DOCUMENTS REFERRED TO-Chabrol's Statistique de Paris-Dr. Bowring's Report-Census of Paris.] It was at the end of the reign of Louis XV. that gambling-houses, privileged by the police, first established themselves at Paris. Then there were: Dufour, rue neuve des Mathurins. Andrieu, au Pont-aux-Choux. Chavigny, rue Montmartre. Delzène, rue Plâtrière. Pierry, rue Cléry. Barbaroux, rue des Petits-Pères. Herbert, au café de la Régence. David et Dufresnoy. Odelin, rue Neuve des Petits-Champs. Latour, rue Feydeau. Bouillerot, à l'Arche Marion. Boyer et Remy, rue Richelieu. At present Paris contains eight such gamblinghouses. Four at the Palais Royal, Nos. 154, 129, 113, et 36. One, rue Marivaux, No. 13. One, rue du Bac, No. 31 One, at Frascati's rue Richelieu. One, at the grand salon, rue Richelieu. The privilege is at present granted at the price of 6,500,000 francs, which are paid into the treasury through the medium of the city of Paris, which receives 6,500,000, and pays 6,000,000. The company, besides this, are obliged to surrender to the municipality three-quarters of its clear benefits, and the police assist every day at the closing of the ac counts. Income of one thousand francs according to Mr. Millot. For Taxes direct, indirect, local, &c. Fraucs. 136 05 Dr. Bowring has, I find, in his late report, given this calculation. Nothing can be more false as a picture of the expense of any individual; but as far as the habits of the mass are concerned, it gives, if correct, a general idea. Consumption of the City of Paris for the year 1832. It is not worth while to put in the "carte" of a restaurant referred to, but I have had the curiosity to count the number of articles it contained, and which I gave as 200, I find 302. RAPPORTS FROM M. CHABROL. It was my original intention to have quoted very largely from the reports published annually, during the time M. Chabrol was préfet de la Seine, the materials for which still continue to be collectedreports which contain the most curious, and interesting, and valuable information. It was my original intention to have closed this volume with a great variety of tables taken from these reports.* I have been induced, however, to refrain from this; first, because I have some consideration for the feelings of those readers who would have shrunk in dismay from a book which put on so formidable and business-like an appearance; and, secondly, because I find these reports, though not originally sold, may yet be purchased, and it is therefore possible to refer to them. Refer to them I do therefore, and in order that the reader may not be disappointed, I subjoin an enumeration of the contents of one volume, published as, "Recherches Statistiques sur la Ville de Paris et le Departement de la Seine, 1826." * These reports have been framed by the 'Chef du bureau de Statistique de la ville de Paris,' under the direction of M. Fourier, 'secrétaire de l'académie des sciences,' and the author of the very remarkable memoirs at the head of each volume. |