Paris herself again in 1878-9 . grocers shop in aprovincial town. The door-jambs are embellished with counter-feit presentments of sugarloaves. In the windows appear pickles,haricots, lentils, cakes of chocolate, vermicelli, olives, and other denrees coloniales. Over the shop-front appears a capaciousplacard inscribed Bazar Genois : Gambetta Jeune et Cie.; andbeneath the spectator reads, Sucre du Havre, Nantes, et Bor-deaux, 1 fir. le k., meaning one franc the kilogramme. Thiscurious picture the accompanying letterpress informs the readerrepresents La Maison de Gambetta a Cahors; and the unpre
Paris herself again in 1878-9 . grocers shop in aprovincial town. The door-jambs are embellished with counter-feit presentments of sugarloaves. In the windows appear pickles,haricots, lentils, cakes of chocolate, vermicelli, olives, and other denrees coloniales. Over the shop-front appears a capaciousplacard inscribed Bazar Genois : Gambetta Jeune et Cie.; andbeneath the spectator reads, Sucre du Havre, Nantes, et Bor-deaux, 1 fir. le k., meaning one franc the kilogramme. Thiscurious picture the accompanying letterpress informs the readerrepresents La Maison de Gambetta a Cahors; and the unpre-tending grocery is otherwise pompously styled Le Nid de lAigle —The Eagles Nest. Is all this good-natured banter, or honestadmiration for a man who from such small beginnings has risenso high ; or is it so much black and bitter envy, malice, anduncharitableness ? That would be difficult to determine. I neverknew political satire of the pictorial kind to be so savagely sjriteful PALM SUNDAY ON THE BOULEVARDS. 265 —~~~~ ~~ ~. LE XID DE LAIGLE AT CAHOES. as it is in France just now ; and the Cahors grocery photographmay be deemed a master-stroke by politicians who hate M. Gam-betta. It does not matter much, perhaps, after all. Garibaldiused to make candles, once upon a time, at Staten Island, NewYork ; and Hofer, the Tell of the Tyrol, kept a a millionnaire chocolate manufacturer was taunted in fullChamber by a Bonapartist Deputy with having formerly been acountry grocer, on the very smallest of scales, he replied that suchwas certainly the fact; and that the father of the honourablegentleman had been a customer of his, and had forgotten to settlehis small account for Reunion coffee and Jamaica rum. Meanwhile, the pleasure-loving Parisians have been spendingPalm Sunday in their own characteristic fashion. I fancy thatthe churches of London were all most decorously well attendedyesterday, and that the last week in Lent left nothing to be desiredin the way of
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