Describing some jeweled pipes for women exposed for sale in a Bond Street shop, a writer in a london.contemporary implies that pipe-smoking among society women is quite a recent innovation, That may be true so far as English-women are concerned, but Edmond de Goncourt tells us that Louis XV used to smoke pip mple was followed by other lad sot the French Court.
Under Louis XIV., too, women belonging to the comfortable el com to have enjoyed their pipe. An engraving by Jean Bonnard, published about 1690, depicts a most elegantly dressed girl smoking a pipe with a tiny bow! and a long thin stem, similar to those now "'specially made for women. "The engraving is in ed Dans ses moments de reveries Cette Belle cherche en fumant 4 tromper la Méluncalie Que lui cause un perfidy Arnaut.
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