I saw the officer sit down to his breakfast ; it was completely a la Francoise — some cold pie and a bottle of wine. The common French breakfast for all travellers, whether ladies or gentlemen, is of meat and wine ; coffee, in Paris, and in large towns, is used by the residents, and sometimes by travellers. But of all things the most difficult to procure is a breakfast such as a Scotchman would call good. A Scotch man is not even satisfied with an English breakfast ; and the best French breakfast we have seen would pass for a very poor one in England: — they will give you, by degrees, all the constituent parts, such as coffee, tea, bread, butter, and even eggs, if you particularly demand them ; but of these only the coffee will be found good on the French roads. The butter is almost always bad, or at least very poor ; the bread, though well raised, is insipid, from the want of salt. Besides which, this breakfast is always got ready in detached parts, from the want of experience in providing for the English.
