Hist B356--affiches

June 19, 1790 (p. 1766)
Noleau, Merchant Grocer and Distiller, at the corner of Old Temple Road and Franc-Bourgeois Street, has discovered a new liqueur which he calls the National Liquor, because of its three distinctive colors: blue, white, red. These are available in three separate bottles, and each has its own very agreeable flavor.

December 9, 1791 (p. 4462)
To the Editor. Paris, the second of December. I beg you, Monsieur, to have the goodness to receive this letter, and to insert into your Journal, the request that is its purpose. I would like to find a son-in-law to suit my own heart and my daughter's. She was born, as we used to say, a fine lady and of noble extraction. Our small fortune consists of 60,000 livres worth of property in the countryside. We would like someone of a comparable fortune, clear and free. We absolutely require that he be well born, well built, and with an interesting face; that he enjoys good health; that he be no more than thirty years old; that his habits be pure and simple; that his heart be true and he knows how to love, and that he loves virtue above all other things; that his sensitive and honest soul be truly noble and elevated above this selfish century in which money supplies every answer. We desire, above all, someone whose principles and sentiments conform to those of Emile, Jean-Jacques Rousseau's virtuous pupil. If he has these personal qualities, no matter how small his fortune, he will always be rich enough for us. We will be manual labourers, or merchants; our children will be carpenters or gardeners, it doesn't matter--in their turn, they too will be Emiles, good people.
My daughter is an adult, good looking and generous, with a pretty face and accustomed from childhood to all sorts of housework: she makes her own dresses and bonnets, and does all the handwork suited to her sex; she is very wise and thrifty, preferring vegetables, fruit, and milk to any other food. She has a pretty voice, and if the man we search is a musician, so much the better--we will sing old songs together, rather than playing games, since we know no games but draughts. But we like to work, to chat among ourselves, to go for walks and to read Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the Nights of Young, Marcus Aurelius, Buffon, and good old Plutarch. In all things we are two hundred years from the customs of this century, where gold is everything and virtue, nothing. We need, then, a man compatible with our good, honest, and simple hearts; but since we live a retired life, the soul we need will not be able to find us--how then are we to find him? Your journal, Sir, is widely read, please insert my request so that the son-in-law I seek may present himself, or that I may, depending on my wishes, stop waiting for him. It is in your journal that he must respond, for my name and address are to be known only to you. Accept my trust, good Sir, and the good wishes with which I have the honour to be, your very humble and obedient servant, the Widow M****.

April 1792, p. 1545. An English gentleman, recently arrived from London, teaches English in a unique manner of his own devising. By this means, after only a few lessons, one can read and pronounce English like a native speaker, something which until this moment seemed excessively difficult to all foreigners. Though there are untold numbers of Irish and Scottish teachers, he does not hesitate to affirm that only in the mouth of a true Englishman do the harmonious tones of this language produce all their charms. He can be found in the Hotel of Geneva, Beauvais Street, place du Louvre.
Postal and company, restaurateurs in the Palais Royal, announce that the better class of people has returned to their establishment, having temporarily abandoned it because of last month's murder. The service is always polite and the dishes could not be more exquisite; the pastries are always very good, the fish is fresh, and the wine is of the highest quality. They can be engaged as caterers at a modest price and have just had private rooms built and furnished delightfully. These rooms are suitable for small groups, either at dinner or supper.
Aubert, the younger, son of the Mr. Aubert known as "from the Mountain," is the sole possessor of the secret of painless necklaces (colliers anodins), approved by the Faculty of Medicine for teething babies. These necklaces prevent fevers and other maladies associated with teething; they now sell for 4 and a half livres instead of the 6 livres for which they used to sell. Aubert lives at 126 Temple Street.