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  • Title: 227
  • Author(s): Baron Ferdinand De RothChild
  • Date of creation: 1890
  • Extent: 2pp
  • Material: Paper
  • Physical Location: Waddesdon Manor

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Though the manners of the upper classes still flavoured of the grossness of former centuries, yet the general tendency to progress was rapidly striding forward. The contact with France, and the increasing facilities for communication with the Continent, led to hitherto unknown refinements. Between 200,000 and 300,000 Protestant re- fugees, whom the fanaticism of the King of France had banished from his country, imported their taste with their industry. ‘The present silk-weavers of Spitalfields are the descendants of some of the refugees. The first lecturer on anatomy in London was a French refugee. These Frenchmen introduced also into England the habit of taking snuff, which some ladies adopted in preference to smoking apipe. The more effeminate portion of the fashionable young men took to using muffs. The contact with Holland introduced the love of gardening and flowers ; the greenhouses of Blenheim were celebrated. The newspaper, 7he Garden, only told us the other day that the Duchess of Marlborough had a partiality for carnations, and that she used them for borders to her flower-beds. That the apartments of the rich were filling with
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