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The Stones of Paris in History and Letters, Volume I (of 2), by Benjamin Ellis Martin and Charlotte M. Martin: (full image Illustrated) BENJAMIN ELLIS MARTIN (Author), CHARLOTTE M. MARTIN (Author) B00BXN3H4E File Size: 1705 KB     BUY NOW Book Description :- The Stones of Paris in History and Letters, Volume I (of 2), by Benjamin Ellis Martin and Charlotte M. Martin: (full image Illustrated) CONTENTS Three Time-worn Staircases The Scholars' Quarter of the Middle Ages Molière and his Friends From Voltaire to Beaumarchais The Paris of the Revolution INTRODUCTORY This book has been written for those who seek in Paris something more than a city of shows or a huge bazaar, something better than the cabaret wherein François I. found entertainment, and yet not quite?still in Hugo's phrase?the library that Charles V. esteemed it. There are many lovers of this beautiful capital of a great people, who, knowing well her unconcealed attractions, would search out her records and traditions in stone, hidden and hard to find. This legitimate curiosity grows more eager with the increasing difficulties of gratifying it in that ancient Paris that is vanishing day by day; and, in its bewilderment, it may be glad to find congenial guidance in these pages. In them, no attempt is made to destroy that which is new in order to reconstruct what was old. In telling the stories of those monuments of past ages that are visible and tangible, reference is made only to so much of their perished approaches and neighbors as shall suffice for full realization of the significance of all that we are to see. This significance is given mainly by the former dwellers within these walls. We shall concern ourselves with the human document, illustrated by its surroundings. The student of history can find no more suggestive relics of mediæval Paris than the still existing towers and fragments of the wall of Philippe-Auguste, which shall be shown to him; for us, these stones must be made to speak, not so essentially of their mighty builder as of the common people, who moved about within that enclosure and gave it character. In like manner, the walls, which have sheltered soldiers, statesmen, preachers, teachers, workers in art and letters, illustrious men and women of all sorts and conditions, will take on the personality of these impressive presences. When we stand beneath the roof of that favorite personage in history, that spoiled child of romance, who happens to be dear to each one of us, we are brought into touch with him as with a living fellow-creature. The streets of Paris are alive with these sympathetic companions, who become abiding friends, as we stroll with them; and allow none of the ache, confessed to be felt in such scenes, despite her reasoning, by Madame de Sévigné. Nor do they invite, here, any critical review of their work in life, but consent to scrutiny of their lineaments alone, and to an appreciation of their personal impress on their contemporaries and on us. So that essays on themes, historic, literary, artistic, can find no place in this record. Indeed, labor and time have been expended "in hindering it from being ... swollen out of shape by superfluous details, defaced with dilettanti antiquarianisms, nugatory tag-rags, and, in short, turned away from its real uses, instead of furthered toward them." In this sense, at least, the authors can say in Montaigne's words, "ceci est un livre de bonne foy." In this presentation of people and places it has been difficult, sometimes impossible, to keep due sequence both of chronology and topography. Just as Mr. Theodore Andrea Cook found in the various châteaux of his admirable "Old Touraine," so each spot we shall visit in Paris "has some particular event, some especial visitor, whose importance overshadows every other memory connected with the place." With that event or that visitor we must needs busy ourselves, without immediate regard to other dates or other personages. Again, to keep in sight some conspicuous figure, as he goes, we must leave on one side certain memorable scenes, to which we shall come back. Each plan has been pursued in turn, as has seemed desirable, for the sake of the clearness and accuracy,   The Stones of Paris in History and Letters, Volume II (of 2), by Benjamin Ellis Martin and Charlotte M. Martin : (full image Illustrated) (Vol. II) CHARLOTTE M. MARTIN (Author), BENJAMIN ELLIS MARTIN (Author) B00BXUS5NU File Size: 2181 KB     BUY NOW Book Description :- The Stones of Paris in History and Letters, Volume II (of 2), by Benjamin Ellis Martin and Charlotte M. Martin: (full image Illustrated) CONTENTS The Southern Bank in the Nineteenth Century The Paris of Honoré de Balzac The Paris of Alexandre Dumas The Paris of Victor Hugo The Making of the Marais The Women of the Marais THE SOUTHERN BANK IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY In preceding chapters we have come upon the small beginnings of the Scholars' Quarter; we have had glimpses of the growth of the great mother University and of her progeny of out-lying colleges; and we have trodden, with their scholars and students, the slope of "the whole Latin Mountain," as it was named by Pantaléon, that nephew of Pope Urban IV., who extolled the learning he had acquired here. Looking down from its crest, over the hill-side to the Seine, we have had under our eyes the mediæval Pays Latin, filling up the space within its bounding wall, built by Philippe-Auguste and left untouched by Charles V.; we have seen that wall gradually obliterated through the ages, its gate-ways with their flanking towers first cut away, its fabric picked to pieces, stone by stone; while, beyond its line, we have watched the building up, early in the seventeenth century, of the Faubourg Saint-Germain, over the Pré-aux-Clercs, and in the fields beyond, and along the river-bank toward the west. In the centre of this new quarter the nobility of birth was soon intrenched behind its garden-walls, and in the centre of the old quarter the aristocracy of brains was secluded within its courts. The boundary-line of the two quarters, almost exactly defined by the straight course from the Institute to the Panthéon, speedily became blurred, and the debatable neutral ground between was settled by colonists from either region, servants of the State, of art, of letters. In our former strollings through long-gone centuries, we have visited many of these and many of the dwellers on the University hill; we are now to turn our attention to those brilliant lights on the left bank who have helped to make Paris "la ville lumière" during the forenoon of the nineteenth century. Through the heart of the faubourg curved the narrow Rue Saint-Dominique, from Esplanade des Invalides to Rue des Saints-Pères. This eastern end, nearly as far west as Rue de Bellechasse, has been carried away by new Boulevard Saint-Germain, and with it the hôtel of the de Tocqueville family, which stood at No. 77 of the ancient aristocratic street. Here in 1820 lived the Comtesse de Tocqueville, with her son, Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel, a lad of fifteen. Here he remained until the events of 1830 sent him to the United States, with a mission to study their prison systems; a study extended by him to all the institutions of the Republic, which had a profound interest for the French Republicans of that time. His report on those prisons appeared in 1832, and in 1835 he put forth the first volume of "De la Démocratie en Amérique," its four volumes being completed in 1840. That admirable survey of the progress of democracy?whose ascendancy he predicted, despite his own predilections?still carries authority, and at the time created a wide-spread sensation. It made its author famous, and promoted him to the place of first-assistant lion in the salon of Madame Récamier, whose head lion was always Châteaubriand. De Tocqueville had settled, on his return to Paris, in this same faubourg; residing until 1837 at 49 Rue de Verneuil, and from that date to 1840 at 12 Rue de Bourgogne. Elected Deputy in 1839, he soon crossed the Seine, and we cannot follow him to his various residences in the quarter of the Madeleine. For a few months in 1849 he served as Minister for Foreign Affairs in the cabinet of the Prince-President, and was among the Deputies put into cells in December, 1851. His remaining years, until his death at Cannes in 1859, were spent in retirement from all public affairs.   Old and New Paris, v. 1 / Its History, its People, and its Places, by Henry Sutherland Edwards : (full image Illustrated) Henry Sutherland Edwards (Author) B00COAFPAY File Size: 9757 KB     BUY NOW Book Description :- OLD AND NEW PARIS / Its History, its People, and its Places BY H. SUTHERLAND EDWARDS AUTHOR OF ?IDOLS OF THE FRENCH STAGE? ?THE GERMANS IN FRANCE? ?THE RUSSIANS AT HOME? ETC. ETC. VOL. I WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS C A S S E L L AND C O M P A N Y LIMITED LONDON PARIS & MELBOURNE 1893 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. PARIS: A GENERAL GLANCE. CHAPTER II. THE EXPANSION OF PARIS Lutetia?La Cité?Lutetia taken by Labienus?The Visit of Julian the Apostate?Besieged by the Franks?The Norman Invasion?Gradual Expansion from the Île de la Cité to the Outer Boulevards?M. Thiers?s Line of Outworks CHAPTER III. THE LEFT BANK AND THE RIGHT. Paris and London?The Rive Gauche?The Quartier Latin?The Pantheon?The Luxemburg?The School of Medicine?The School of Fine Arts?The Bohemia of Paris?The Rive Droite?Paris Proper?The ?West End? CHAPTER IV. NOTRE DAME. The Cathedral of Notre Dame, a Temple to Jupiter?Cæsar and Napoleon?Relics in Notre Dame?Its History?Curious Legends?The ?New Church??Remarkable Religious Ceremonies?The Place de Grève?The Days of Sorcery??Monsieur de Paris??Dramatic Entertainments?Coronation of Napoleon CHAPTER V. SAINT-GERMAIN-L?AUXERROIS The Massacre of St. Bartholomew?The Events that preceded it?Catherine de Medicis?Admiral Coligny??The King-Slayer??The Signal for the Massacre?Marriage of the Duc de Joyeuse and Marguerite of Lorraine CHAPTER VI. THE PONT-NEUF AND THE STATUE OF HENRI IV. The Oldest Bridge in Paris?Henri IV.?His Assassination by Ravaillac?Marguerite of Valois?The Statue of Henri IV.?The Institute?The Place de Grève CHAPTER VII. THE BOULEVARDS. From the Bastille to the Madeleine?Boulevard Beaumarchais?Beaumarchais?The Marriage of Figaro?The Bastille?The Drama in Paris?Adrienne Lecouvreur?Vincennes?The Duc d?Enghien?Duelling?Louis XVI CHAPTER VIII. THE BOULEVARDS (continued). Hôtel Carnavalet?Hôtel Lamoignon?Place Royale?Boulevard du Temple?The Temple?Louis XVII?The Theatres?Astley?s Circus?Attempted Assassination of Louis Philippe?Trial of Fieschi?The Café Turc?The Cafés?The Folies Dramatiques?Louis XVI. and the Opera?Murder of the Duke of Berri CHAPTER IX. THE BOULEVARDS (continued). The Porte Saint-Martin?Porte Saint-Denis?The Burial Place of the French Kings?Funeral of Louis XV.?Funeral of the Count de Chambord?Boulevard Bonne-Nouvelle?Boulevard Poissonnière?Boulevard Montmartre?Frascati CHAPTER X. BOULEVARD AND OTHER CAFÉS. The Café Littéraire?Café Procope?Café Foy?Bohemian Cafés?Café Momus?Death of Molière?New Year?s Gifts CHAPTER XI. THE BOULEVARDS (continued). The Opéra Comique of Paris?I Gelosi?The Don Juan of Molière?Madame Favart?The Saint-Simonians CHAPTER XII. THE BOULEVARDS (continued). La Maison Dorée?Librairie Nouvelle?Catherine II. and the Encyclopædia?The House of Madeleine Guimard CHAPTER XIII. PLACE DE LA CONCORDE. Its History?Louis XV.?Fireworks?The Catastrophe in 1770?Place de la Révolution?Louis XVI.?The Directory CHAPTER XIV. THE PLACE VENDÔME. The Column of Austerlitz?The Various Statues of Napoleon Taken Down?The Church of Saint-Roch?Mlle. Raucourt?Joan of Arc CHAPTER XV. THE JACOBIN CLUB. The Jacobins?Chateaubriand?s Opinion of Them?Arthur Young?s Descriptions?The New Club CHAPTER XVI. THE PALAIS ROYAL. Richelieu?s Palace?The Regent of Orleans?The Duke of Orleans?Dissipation in the Palais Royal?The Palais National?The Birthplace of Revolutions CHAPTER XVII. THE COMÉDIE FRANÇAISE. Its History?The Roman Comique?Under Louis XV.?During the Revolution?Hernani CHAPTER XVIII. THE NATIONAL LIBRARY AND THE BOURSE. The ?King?s Library??Francis I. and the Censorship?The Imperial Library?The Bourse CHAPTER XIX. THE LOUVRE AND THE TUILERIES. The Louvre?Origin of the Name?The Castle?Francis I.?Catherine de Medicis?The Queen?s Apartments?Louis XIV. and the Louvre?The Museum of the Louvre?The Picture Galleries?The Tuileries?The National Assembly?Marie Antoinette?The Palace of Napoleon III.??Petite Provence? CHAPTER XX. THE CHAMPS ÉLYSÉES AND THE BOIS DE BOULOGNE. The Champs   Old and New Paris, v. 2 / Its History, its People, and its Places, by Henry Sutherland Edwards : (full image Illustrated) (VOL. II) Henry Sutherland Edwards (Author) B00CO9U5Y6 File Size: 9360 KB     BUY NOW Book Description :- Old and New Paris, v. 2 / Its History, its People, and its Places Author: Henry Sutherland Edwards AUTHOR OF ?IDOLS OF THE FRENCH STAGE? ?THE GERMANS IN FRANCE? ?THE RUSSIANS AT HOME? ETC. ETC. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. STREET CHARACTERS. The ?Cocher??The Bus-driver?The Private Coachman?The Hackney Coachman?The Public Writer?The Flower-girl?The Oyster-woman CHAPTER II. THE ENGLISH AND AMERICANS IN PARIS. The Englishman Abroad?M. Lemoinne?s Analysis?The Englishwoman?Sunday in London and in Paris?Americans in Paris?The American Girl CHAPTER III. MORE PARISIAN TYPES. The Spy?Under Sartines and Berryer?Fouché?Delavau?The Present System?The Écuyère?The Circus in Paris CHAPTER IV. THE DOMESTIC. The French Servant, as described by Léon Gozlan and by Mercier?The Cook and the Cordon Bleu?The Valet CHAPTER V. PARISIAN CHARACTERISTICS. Parisian Characteristics?Gaiety, Flippancy Wit?A String of Favourite Anecdotes CHAPTER VI. THE STREETS. The Arrangement of the Streets?System of Numbering the Houses?Street Nomenclature?Street Lamps?The Various Kinds of Vehicles in Use CHAPTER VII. THE SEINE AND ITS BRIDGES.?THE MORGUE. The Various Bridges over the Seine?Their Histories?The Morgue?Some Statistics CHAPTER VIII. THE REFORMATION IN PARIS. D?Étaples, the Pioneer of the Reformation?Nicolas Cop and Calvin?Progress of the Reformation?Persecutions?Catharine de Médicis?St. Bartholomew?s?The Edict of Nantes CHAPTER IX. THE UNIVERSITY OF PARIS AND THE COLLEGE OF FRANCE. The French Educational System?Lycées and Collèges?The University of Paris?The College of France CHAPTER X. THE SORBONNE. Robert de Sorbonne?The Sorbonne, its Origin and History?Richelieu?The Revolution?The New Sorbonne?Mercier?s Views CHAPTER XI. THE INSTITUTE. The Institute?Its Unique Character?The Objects of its Projectors?Its Constitution CHAPTER XII. THE ACADÉMIE FRANÇAISE. The Académie Française?Its Foundation by Richelieu?Its Constitution?The ?Forty-first Chair? CHAPTER XIII. THE PANTHÉON. The Church of Clovis?The Church of Sainte-Geneviève?France in the Thirteenth Century?The Building of the New Church under Louis XV.?Mirabeau and the Constituent Assembly?The Church of Sainte-Geneviève becomes the Panthéon. 59 CHAPTER XIV. THE POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL. The ?Central School of Public Works??Bonaparte and the Polytechnic?The College of Navarre?Formal Inauguration in 1805?1816?1830 67 CHAPTER XV. THE HÔTEL CLUNY. The Rue des Carmes?Comte de Mun and the Catholic Workmen?s Club?The Place Maubert?The Palais des Thermes?The Hôtel Cluny?Its History?Its Art Treasures 71 CHAPTER XVI. THE MUSÉE D?ARTILLERIE. The Museum of Artillery?Its Origin and History?The Growth of its Collection of Armour and Weapons of all Kinds CHAPTER XVII. THE VAL DE GRÂCE?RELICS OF THE GREAT. The Deaf and Dumb Institution?The Val de Grâce?Hearts as Relics?Royal Funerals?The Church of Saint-Denis CHAPTER XVIII. THE CATACOMBS: THE OBSERVATORY. Origin of the Catacombs?The Quarries of Mont Souris?The Observatory?Marshal Ney?The School of Medicine CHAPTER XIX. THE ODÉON: THE LUXEMBURG PALACE. The Odéon?Its History?Erection of the Present Building in 1799?Marie de Médicis and the Luxemburg Palace?The Judicial Annals of the Luxemburg?Trials of Fieschi and Louvel?Trial of Louis Napoleon?Trial of the Duc de Praslin CHAPTER XX. THE PRISONS OF PARIS. La Santé?La Roquette?The Conciergerie?The Mazas?Sainte-Pélagie?Saint-Lazare?Prison Regulations CHAPTER XXI. THE PARIS ZOO. The Jardin des Plantes?Its Origin and History?Under Buffon?The Museum of Natural History?The Tobacco Factory CHAPTER XXII. SOME HISTORICAL BUILDINGS. Abailard and Héloise?Fulbert?s House in the Rue des Chantres?The Philip Augustus Towers?The Hôtel Barbette?The Hôtel de Sens CHAPTER XXIII. THE MONT-DE-PIÉTÉ. ?Uncle? and ?Aunt??Organisation of the Mont-de-Piété?Its Various Branches?Its Warehouses and Sale-rooms CHAPTER XXIV. PARIS MARKETS. The Halles-Centrales?The Cattle Markets?Agriculture in France?The French Peasant   Paris and its Story by Thomas Okey : (full image Illustrated) Author: Thomas Okey, Illustrator: Katherine Kimball, O. F. M. Ward B00K3CONR6 File Size: 5263 KB.     BUY NOW Book Description :- history, french, city, europe, Louis XI., Francis I., Paris THE History of Paris, says Michelet, is the history of the French monarchy. The aim of the writer in the following pages has been to narrate the story of the capital city of France on the lines thus indicated, dwelling, however, in the earlier chapters rather more on its legendary aspect than perhaps an austere historical conscience would approve. But it is precisely a familiarity with these romantic stories, which at least are true in impression if not in fact, that the sojourner in Paris will find most useful, translated as they are in sculpture and in painting on the decoration of her architecture both modern and ancient, and implicit in the nomenclature of her ways. Within the limits of time and space allotted for the work no more than an imperfect outline of a vast subject has been possible. The writer has essayed to compose a story of, not a guide to, Paris. Those who desire the latter may be referred to the excellent manuals of Murray, Bædeker and of Grant Allen--the last named being an admirable companion for the artistically-minded traveller. In controversial matter, such, for instance, as the position of the ancient Grand Pont, the writer has adopted the opinions of the most recent authorities. The story of Paris presents a marked contrast with that of an Italian city-state whose rise, culmination and fall may be roundly traced. Paris is yet in the stage of lusty growth. Time after time, like a young giantess, she has burst her cincture of walls, cast off her outworn garments and renewed her armour and vesture. Hers are no grass-grown squares and deserted streets; no ruined splendours telling of pride abased and glory departed; no sad memories of waning cities once the mistresses of sea and land; none of the tears evoked by a great historic tragedy; none of the solemn pathos of decay and death. Paris has more than once tasted the bitterness of humiliation; Norseman, and Briton, Russian and German have bruised her fair body; the dire distress of civic strife has exhausted her strength, but she has always emerged from her trials with marvellous recuperation, more flourishing than before.   The Paris Sketch Book of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh: The Irish Sketch Book by William Makepeace Thackeray : (full image Illustrated) William Makepeace Thackeray B00D9OIX7Q File Size: 3907 KB.     BUY NOW Book Description :- ART, Painting, France, Sketch, Novel, IRISH, poem DEDICATORY LETTER Sir,--It becomes every man in his station to acknowledge and praise virtue wheresoever he may find it, and to point it out for the admiration and example of his fellow-men. Some months since, when you presented to the writer of these pages a small account for coats and pantaloons manufactured by you, and when you were met by a statement from your creditor, that an immediate settlement of your bill would be extremely inconvenient to him, your reply was, 'Mon Dieu, sir, let not that annoy you; if you want money, as a gentleman often does in a strange country, I have a thousand-franc note at my house which is quite at your service.' History or experience, sir, makes us acquainted with so few actions that can be compared to yours,--an offer like this from a stranger and a tailor seems to me so astonishing,--that you must pardon me for thus making your virtue public, and acquainting the English nation with your merit and your name. Let me add, sir, that you live on the first floor; that your cloths and fit are excellent, and your charges moderate and just; and, as a humble tribute of my admiration, permit me to lay these volumes at your feet.--Your obliged, faithful servant, M. A. TITMARSH. THE PARIS SKETCH BOOK 1. An Invasion of France 2. A Caution to Travellers 3. The Fêtes of July 4. On the French School of Painting 5. The Painter's Bargain 6. Cartouche 7. On some French Fashionable Novels 8. A Gambler's Death 9. Napoleon and his System 10. The Story of Mary Ancel 11. Beatrice Merger 12. Caricatures and Lithography in Paris 13. Little Poinsinet 14. The Devil's Wager 15. Madame Sand and the New Apocalypse 16. The Case of Peytel 17. French Dramas and Melodramas 18. Meditations at Versailles   Over Periscope Pond / Letters from Two American Girls in Paris October 1916-January 1918 by Esther Sayles Root and Marjorie Crocker Esther Sayles Root and Marjorie Crocker B00KQ6S9IS File Size: 1334 KB.     BUY NOW Book Description :- German, refugee, Letters, American, brave, American Girls, Paris FOREWORD The authors of these letters are two young American girls, one from New York and the other from Boston. They first met in Paris, each having volunteered her services to the Rev. and Mrs. Ernest W. Shurtleff, to aid in relief work among the refugees, or, as Dr. Shurtleff expressed it, "To help in our effort to get under part of the burden of humanity." The letters were written (as is evident) for the family eye only, and consent to their publication has been given by cable with much hesitation. To me they are revealing of the spirit of feminine young America--a brave and self-sacrificing spirit which shines out through irrepressible youthful humor and vivacity, and is a worthy complement to the unquestioning and unquestioned valor shown by the brothers of such girls to-day. Clara Louise Burnham. OVER PERISCOPE POND I. FROM ESTHER Aboard Espagne, October 21, 1916. Dear Father:-- The writing-room is a bower of gold leaf, electric-light fixtures, and Louis XIV brocade, but it is injudiciously placed where both the motion and vibration are greatest, and not even the marvelously developed yellow cherub, who holds a candelabrum over my shoulder, is inviting enough to induce me to stay here long. Not that I haven't plenty to tell. I could easily use up all the ship's paper in describing the various people and events of this memorable week. The day we sailed was perfectly gorgeous. You remember. Mrs. Bigelow and I watched the big buildings and the Statue of Liberty slowly melt into the sunset, and then we went down to see what surprises the stateroom might reveal. And they were plenty. Letters upon letters and lovely presents. The atmosphere was a trifle charged as we passed the three-mile limit, and we all found billets--not so doux as they might have been--on our pillows assigning us to lifeboats and saying just what to do when the signal should be given to abandon the boat. Both Mrs. Bigelow and Miss Short were assigned to Lifeboat No. 10, while I was shunted off in Lifeboat No. 8--a bad omen, I thought. We went up on the top deck and looked them over. No. 8 looks like a peanut shell--and then we looked over the edge where the great big blue rollers were beginning to make the boat creak, and decided rather hurriedly to go down to dinner. You can imagine yourself what it would be like to start off on the sea in a canoe at our island when there was a good dash at the rocks. ILLUSTRATIONS Marjorie Crocker and Esther Sayles Root No. 6 Place Denfert-Rochereau Women's Vestiaire and Men's Vestiaire Dr. and Mrs. Shurtleff in the Office Marjorie and Mrs. Shurtleff, with the Leopard Skin Esther and Marjorie in Ford Truck Rootie in Park at Saint-Germain Marje in the Salon at No. 12 Place Denfert-Rochereau "Bettina" at Saint-Germain Le Cèdre at Saint-Germain Will Irwin in the Garden at Blérancourt Mrs. Williams, Miss Dobson, and Mrs. Wethey in the Garden at Blérancourt Luncheon in the Garden at Blérancourt The Cathedral at Soissons Very Old and Beautiful House at Roye⑥ Interior completely gone A German Graveyard The Air Raid on Paris on the Night of January 30, 1918   Zut and Other Parisians by Guy Wetmore Carryl Guy Wetmore Carryl B00E2T79ZY File Size: 437 KB.     BUY NOW Book Description :- French, romance, novel, paris, fiction, classic, Lucifer SIDE by side, on the avenue de la Grande Armee, stand the epicerie of Jean-Baptiste Caille and the salle de coiffure of Hippolyte Sergeot, and between these two there is a great gulf fixed, the which has come to be through the acerbity of Alexandrine Caille (according to Esperance Sergeot), through the duplicity of Esperance Sergeot (according to Alexandrine Caille). But the veritable root of all evil is Zut, and Zut sits smiling in Jean-Baptiste's doorway, and cares naught for anything in the world, save the sunlight and her midday meal. When Hippolyte found himself in a position to purchase the salle de coiffure, he gave evidence of marked acumen by uniting himself in the holy--and civil--bonds of matrimony with the retiring patron's daughter, whose dot ran into the coveted five figures, and whose heart, said Hippolyte, was as good as her face was pretty, which, even by the unprejudiced, was acknowledged to be forcible commendation. The installation of the new establishment was a nine days' wonder in the quartier. It is a busy thoroughfare at its western end, is the avenue de la Grande Armee, crowded with bicyclists and with a multitude of creatures fearfully and wonderfully clad, who do incomprehensible things in connection with motor-carriages. Also there are big cafes in plenty, whose waiters must be smoothly shaven: and moreover, at the time when Hippolyte came into his own, the porte Maillot station of the Metropolitain had already pushed its entree and sortie up through the soil, not a hundred metres from his door, where they stood like atrocious yellow tulips, art nouveau, breathing people out and in by thousands. There was no lack of possible custom. The problem was to turn possible into probable, and probable into permanent; and here the seven wits and the ten thousand francs of Esperance came prominently to the fore. She it was who sounded the progressive note, which is half the secret of success. "Pour attirer les gens," she said, with her arms akimbo, "il faut d'abord les epater." CONTENTS Zut Caffiard, Deus ex Machina The Next Corner The Only Son of his Mother The Tuition of Dodo Chapuis Le Pochard A Latter-Day Lucifer Poire! Papa Labesse In the Absence of Monsieur Little Tapin