85- (1.) Jean Beraud, A Brasserie, from Salon catalogue illustre, 1883. 86. (r.) Ferdinand Fau, illustration for A. Carel, Les Brasseries a femmes de Paris, Paris, 1884. 87. (1.) Ferdinand Fau, illustration for A. Carel, Les Brasseries a femmes de Paris, Paris, 1884. - Again I catch you hanging out at brasseries! 88. (r.) — Papa, it's not for what you think. It's to study Albert archaeology! Robida, "New Paris," Le Monde roundabout quality, even though the introduction of the matter at hand is direct, the woman Comique, characteristically comes over to sit down, without being asked, at the drinker's table and strikes 1884. up a conversation which always ends with a proposition in secret words of the most easily- understood sort."44 According to some later nineteenth-century observers, however, the relatively subtle mer- chandising of both drink and sex in the 18708 (to which Regnault and Martineau, as well as Zola, apparently refer) was replaced by a more raucous style in the i88os. Referring to the 18708 with an air of nostalgia, Reuss wrote in 1889: "Everything transpires decently, and if one evening a client takes one of the serving women off to sleep with her, no-one pays any atten- 45 tion." Reuss found the operation of the brasserie of the late i88os to be quite a different mat- ter: "Those brasseries a femmes are virtual maisons de passe and houses of prostitution. They 139