On the Lycée (1792) [ Practices ]
… institution, where learning seems stripped of its thorns and decorated with flowers, and where the gay and social Parisians cultivate science and the belles letters, amidst the pleasures and attractions of society; while in England, … but by the most fashionable persons of both sexes. Lectures are given at the Lycée by the most celebrated professors at Paris, on natural philosophy, chemistry, natural history, botany, history, and belles letters; and the Greek, Italian, … in such a society as the Lycée! I am surprised to meet there with so few of my countrymen. Such of them as come to Paris to acquire the French language, would find at the Lycée not only the advantages of instruction, but of …
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