It is a curious book, which can still be met with sometimes on the quays.

It is adorned by a lithograph of Henry Monnier's, which is, I don't know why, a caricature of Stendhal.

Fongeray is the pseudonym of two Liberals of the Restoration, Dittmer and Cave.

The work consists of comedies and dramas which cannot be acted; but which contain some most interesting scenes representing manners and customs.

You will read in it how, in the reign of Charles X, a vicar of one of the Paris churches, the Abbe Mouchaud, would refuse burial to a pious lady, and would, at all costs, grant it to an atheist.
Madame d'Hautefeuille was religious, but she held some national property.