Translated from the sixth Paris edition and published in Boston in 1833, Madame Celnart’s guide teaches young men and women propriety of deportment: conduct in the family and in society, conversation, visits, letters, the table, amusements and travel. Even correcting someone’s grammar, she advises, must be done with ease and gaiety.
A charming window on the manners Americans borrowed from France in the early nineteenth century. Download the free EPUB.