Paris herself again in 1878-9 . gnise the expediency of their playing the fool sometimes. YetSo</i?ty would think it very hard if charades and the cotillon weresuppressed by Act of Parliament. The Paris Gingerbread Fair has two distinct and rigidly-adhered-to sides—the side of Business and the side of for both, I chartered a victoria on Monday and wentdown to the Barriere du Trone. The fair, with its succursals,must be at least three miles long. The booths and the round-abouts, the swings and the circular railways, begin at the Placedu Chateau dEau, possibly for the recr
Paris herself again in 1878-9 . gnise the expediency of their playing the fool sometimes. YetSo</i?ty would think it very hard if charades and the cotillon weresuppressed by Act of Parliament. The Paris Gingerbread Fair has two distinct and rigidly-adhered-to sides—the side of Business and the side of for both, I chartered a victoria on Monday and wentdown to the Barriere du Trone. The fair, with its succursals,must be at least three miles long. The booths and the round-abouts, the swings and the circular railways, begin at the Placedu Chateau dEau, possibly for the recreation of the soldiersquartered in the enormous barracks erected bjthe Emperor Napo-leon III. to defend that which his military advisers deemed to beone of the most important strategical points in Paris. Subsequentevents, nevertheless, have shown that, when insurrection is onfoot, any street in Paris is good enough to fight in. The mob arequite impartial, and they will give battle at Pere la Chaise or at GINGERBREAD FAIR. 313. the Jardin des Plantes—on the Buttes Montmartre or on the Place<1m Pantheon, just as the humour seizes them or as the mot dordre is given. * Where are the barricades ? I asked a railway porter, 81-1 PARIS HERSELF AGAIN. on arriving in Paris on the 3d of December 1851. Un peu par-tout, monsieur, was the candid reply. Every inch of the groundbetween the Chateau dEau and the rostral column of the Barrieredu Trone has been at some time or another a battle-field; but onMonday everything wore the most pacific and the most smiling ofaspects. The prodigiously long and bustling Boulevard Voltaireassumed in particular a gay and holiday look. The houses in thisnew and thoroughly Haussmannesque thoroughfare are, as a rule,six stories high. A few of the shops were closed ; but nearly allthe balconies were filled with well-dressed people enjoying thesight of the animated spectacle below. The kerbs were lined withbaroques, for the sale of nicknacks and sweetstuff
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