Vulgar words in Paris from the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 1 (Page 1)
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Nothing was to be seen but _jongleurs_, _farceurs_, and other actors and buffoons, extravagance, debauchery, and constant change.
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Henri de Navarre and the young Duc d'Alençon were retained as prisoners in the Louvre, where they amused themselves by flying quails in their rooms and making love to the ladies.
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(The same author, speaking of the shop-keepers of Paris at this epoch, says: "They will damn themselves for a liard, gaining on their merchandise the double of what it has cost them, selling bad goods, and blaspheming and swearing by God and the Devil that they are excellent.")