Modern aspects of Paris: the Quartier Latin, 1870. 'This well-known of the handsomest portions of that city which claims to be the finest in the world. a vast crowd of students of all nations and social conditions - Frenchmen from the departments, Turks and Egyptians, Wallachians and Russians, Brazilians and Flemings, who have come to Paris to attend the lectures of the Schools of Law or Medicine, of the Sorbonne, or of the College of all but disappeared; and although a very few still remain, they are old and worn out, earn
Modern aspects of Paris: the Quartier Latin, 1870. 'This well-known of the handsomest portions of that city which claims to be the finest in the world. a vast crowd of students of all nations and social conditions - Frenchmen from the departments, Turks and Egyptians, Wallachians and Russians, Brazilians and Flemings, who have come to Paris to attend the lectures of the Schools of Law or Medicine, of the Sorbonne, or of the College of all but disappeared; and although a very few still remain, they are old and worn out, earning a wretched pittance by obscure literary once celebrated sugar-loaf hat and the famous nankeen trousers are to be seen no Boulevards are thronged by well-dressed new generation has suddenly become aware that it is the future of France, and it sees the necessity of studying and "Jeunesse des Ecoles," as the students are called, are divided into Spiritualists and Materialists, and write treatises and pamphlets on the great social and philosophical questions of the the students still drink, and dance, and make love - they also think and talk in earnest'. From "Illustrated London News", 1870.
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