If you are interested in learning how in Paris in the 1830s they launched a hot air balloon and opened the first railway, bought New Year's gifts and moved to a new apartment, if you are interested in how a loud fashion school differs from a mysterious school, and a secular one chronicle of the 19th century from the present one - read "Paris Letters of the Viscount de Launay." The French writer Delphine de Girardin (1804–1855) published these essays weekly from 1836 to 1848 in the newspaper La Presse. Subsequently, Girardin had many imitators, but she was the first - and the best. Only literary historians remember the imitators, and the essays of Delphine de Girardin, an intelligent and witty observer of Parisian everyday life, were republished in France in the 19th, 20th, and even this century. “Paris Letters” is published in Russian for the first time.