ENGLISH PEOPLE IN FRANCE. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "
SFECTATOR.")
SIR,--4 think it may help to remove some misconceptions as to the temper of French people with regard to their English visitors, and the general temper of Paris at this moment, if I tell you my experience of a short visit. The Parisians were as polite as ever, the prices no higher, and, notwithstanding the motor-cars, the traffic not worse than usual. Owing to many of the principal streets having been laid:with;wood-pavement, the town is decidedly quieter than it used to be. There are certainly no symptoms of Anglo- phobia calculated to annoy the British tourist, who will find the sommeliers as anxious as ever that the English should, for once, poor things, know the taste of a good dinner. The casual pedestrian, when asked the way in the halting Anglo- French of your correspondent, was as helpful as usual, and even the Paris cabman was as nearly polite as he ever is, even to his compatriots. In a word, the notion of English people meeting with incivility and insult in Paris just now because they are English is absurd.—I am, Sir, &c.,
AN ENGLISHWOMAN.
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