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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ... in our last quiet" Deversorium" in which we have at least the hangman's comfort: "You shall be called to no more payments, fear no more tavern bills which are often the sadness of parting as the procuring of mirth." But we must not end without delivering a little sermon to the signs, too, that still glitter in the warm sunshine. To them, cocks, deer, bears, oxen, and horses, a church-tower cock, celebrated by the humorous clergyman poet Mdricke of Schwabenland, gives this solemn warning: --"You poor old iron things, Why should you be so vain? Who knows how many springs You will up there remain?" 1. Petit dictionnaire critique et anecdotique des enseignes de Paris par un batteur de pave 1826, in Balzac's uvres completes, tome xxi. 1879. 2. . De Queriere. Recherches historiques sur les enseignes, in the Magazin pittoresque, 1850-60. 3. Blavignac. Histoire des enseignes d'hotelleries, d'auberges et de cabarets. Geneve, 1879. 4. L. Reutter. Les enseignes d'auberges du canton de Neuchatel, avec notices par A. Bachelin. 1886. Neuchatel. 5. Michel-fournier. Histoire des Hotelleries. Paris, 1851. 6. John Grand-carteret. L'enseigne, son histoire, sa philosophie, ses particularites a Lyon. Grenoble, 1902. 7. Journal du Voyage de Michel De Montaigne en Italie par la Suisse et l'Allemagne en 1580 et 1581. Rome, 1775. 8. Tristan Leclere. Les Enseignes, in the Revue Universelle, 1905. 9. P. Fromageot. Les Hotelleries, cafes et cabarets de l'ancien Versailles. 1907. 10. Emile Chatelain. Notes sur quelques tavernes frequentees par l'universite de Paris au XIV et XV siecles. Paris, 1898. 11. E. L. Chambois. Le Vieux Mans, les Hotelleries et leurs..."
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- PublisherTheClassics.us
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 123026910X
- ISBN 13 9781230269108
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages48
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