In Paris, the vivid and sensual atmosphere, bustling and sometimes also festive, does not give silence a chance to settle in. To the astonishment of chroniclers and literary writers. Yet one shall not forget that the intensity of on-going events, the continuous presence of female and male bodies, contribute to bestowing Paris with its varied colours and ceaseless roaring through which the relationship of a people with its present time can be grasped: the 18th century.