Edgar Allan Poe

Bon-Bon - Original Edition Edgar Allan Poe

THAT Pierre Bon-Bon was a restaurateur of uncommon qualifications, no man who, during the reign of--, frequented the little Câfé in the cul-de-sac Le Febvre at Rouen, will, I imagine, feel himself at liberty to dispute. That Pierre Bon-Bon was, in an equal degree, skilled in the philosophy of that period is, I presume, still more especially undeniable. His patés à la fois were beyond doubt immaculate; but what pen can do justice to his essays sur la Nature-his thoughts sur l'Ame-his observations sur l'Esprit? If his omelettes-if his fricandeaux were inestimable, what littérateur of that day would not have given twice as much for an "Idée de Bon-Bon" as for all the trash of "Idées" of all the rest of the savants?