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Period referred to: 1860s
Sound category: Social > Gambling
Title of work: Notes on England
Type of publication: Travelogue
Author: Hippolyte Taine
Year of publication: 1861
Page/volume number: 28 May 1861
A Frenchman visits the Epsom Derby
It is a carnival, in fact; they have come to amuse themselves in a noisy fashion. Everywhere are gypsies, comic singers and dancers disguised as negroes, shooting galleries where bows and arrows or guns are used, charlatans who by dint of eloquence palm off watch chains, games of skittles and sticks, musicians of all sorts [. . .]
[ . . .] after three false starts they are off; fifteen or twenty keep together, the others are in small groups [. . .] It turns; one perceives the first group approach. 'Hats off!' and all heads are uncovered, and everyone rises; a repressed 'hurrah' runs through the stands.