3-074-864 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

An English Christmas in Paris, drawn by A. Forestier, 1883. '1. Monsieur decides on a Christmas à l'Anglaise. 2. The Bonne, sent to buy Holly and Mistletoe. 3. Home Decorations. 4. He delivers the English Pudding to his Cook. 5. She never saw one before! 6. A Christmas Guest, Monsieur the Lieutenant. 7. Finds it tout-à-fait charmant. 8. Mais ça ne sied pas bien! 9. Another English custom is explained to him. 10. And this he finds delightful. 11. So does the Page, but with a grievous result. 12. For which he is chastised. 13. Diversity of tastes at the Christmas dinner. 14. Aunt Madeline wishes Mistletoe had been imported forty or fifty years ago. 15. It has not come too late for some persons. 16. The Pudding - Monsieur says, I must boil it well. 17. Soup after dinner! Ces dróles, les Anglais! 18. "As you ordered, Monsieur - Potage à boudin, with Holly on the top!" 19. "But is this a Pudding? Jamais, au grand jamais! Never Again!"'. From "Illustrated London News", 1883.