FOUQUET'S cabinet of Models of Antique Monuments, Rue de Lille, F. S. G.
HAUPOIS' cabinet of Mechanics.
SUË'S cabinet of Anatomy, Rue du Luxembourg.
TERSAN'S cabinet of Antiquities, Cloître St. Honoré.
VAILLANT'S cabinet of Birds, &c. Rue du Sépulchre, F. S. G.
VAN-HORREN'S cabinet of Curiosities, Rue St. Dominique, F. S. G.
I must observe that, to visit these men of science, without putting them to inconvenience, it is expedient either to procure an introduction, or to address them a note, requesting permission to view their cabinet. This observation holds good with respect to every thing that is not public.
If you are fond of inspecting curious fire-arms, you should examine the dépôt d'armes of M. BOUTET in the Rue de la Loi, whose manufactory is at Versailles, and also pay a visit to M. REGNIER, at the Dépôt Central de l'Artillerie, Rue de l'Université, who is a very ingenious mechanic, and will shew you several curious articles of his own invention, such as a dynamomètre, by means of which you can ascertain and compare the relative strength of men, as well as that of horses and draught-cattle, and also judge of the resistance of machines, and estimate the moving power you wish to apply to them; a potamomètre, by which you can tell the force of running streams, and measure the currents of rivers. M. REGNIER has also invented different kinds of locks and padlocks, which cannot be picked; as well as some curious pistols, &c.
I have, as you will perceive, strictly confined myself to the limits of the capital, because I expect that my absence from it will not be long; and, in my next trip to France, I intend, not only to point out such objects as I may now have neglected, but also to describe those most worthy of notice in the environs of Paris.
If I have not spoken to you of all the metamorphoses occasioned here by the revolution, it is because several of them bear not the stamp of novelty. If the exchange in Paris is now held in the ci-devant Eglise des Petits Pères, did we not at Boston, in New England, convert the meeting-houses and churches into riding-schools and barracks?