Excerpt from Chambers's Miscellany of Useful and Entertaining Tracts
Dec. 25. - I went yesterday morning to confession. I dined at the Palais Royal, and then went to the Philanthropic Society, whence I could not get away till eight O'clock. I went to the midui ht mass at St Eustache, returned at two in the morning, an got to bed at half-past two. I performed my devotions at this mass [christmas].
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