'The Smell of the Continent'

»I remember being much amused last year, when landing at Calais,« wrote Mrs. Frances Trollope in her 1835 book, Paris and the Parisians, »at the answer made by an old traveler to a novice … making his first voyage. 'What a dreadful smell!' said the uninitiated stranger … 'It is the smell of the cont...

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