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… for women. 4 Throughout the eighteenth century, visitors, especially foreign ones, were impressed by the park’s beauty and size, and commented on its popularity as a sociable public space. One visitor remarked that it was the place ‘where Court and the Beau Monde meet ‘, 5 and another that on Sunday afternoons, about ‘one thousand souls’ could be seen in this public promenade …
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