First Person: Paris, 1785

An episode from 8/25/21: Tonight, I read from Louis-Sébastien Mercier's Le Tableau de Paris. The translation is from Helen Simpson's 1933 selection from its twelve volumes, The Waiting City: Paris 1782-1788.

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