Word: beaux
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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SUETONI D. JULIUS, '80.IT may perhaps be gratifying to many of our fashionable beaux, a race of animals for which I have a special respect, to know the antiquity of a part of their dress so valuable to them as the pantaloon. Pelontier, in his Hist. Celt., L. 2, c. 6, and Cluvenius, in his Germ. Antiq., L. 1, c. 16, plainly describe it; but not to trouble them with what Commodore Trunnion calls outlandish lingos, I extract the following passage from the valuable history of Dr. Henry, the authenticity of which on the most minute as well...
...Club are the folio History of Athens, by Stuart and Revet, and Penrose's Principles of Athenian Architecture. In addition to these books of reference several of the leading Art journals will be found in the rooms, such as the Portfolio, L'Art, and the Gazette des Beaux Arts...