A reading from Louis-Sébastien Mercier's twelve-volume Le Tableau de Paris. The translation is from Helen Simpson's 1933 selection, The Waiting City: Paris 1782-1788.

The excerpt comes from the Winter 2019 issue of Lapham's Quarterly.

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