. Paris as seen and described by famous writers ... nlarging the city that all the neighbouring countryfinds itself crowded together and suppressed, it is due tothem that they should have the squares, to which howeveran English name should not be given. This is almost thesole objection that I have to offer to this excellent idea. I had often thought of the destiny of those poor girls ofthe people who pass their whole life in the centre of thecity in those infected and obscure quarters, never hearingthe first words of love at their ear and in their heart excepton the stairways reeking of boiled
. Paris as seen and described by famous writers ... nlarging the city that all the neighbouring countryfinds itself crowded together and suppressed, it is due tothem that they should have the squares, to which howeveran English name should not be given. This is almost thesole objection that I have to offer to this excellent idea. I had often thought of the destiny of those poor girls ofthe people who pass their whole life in the centre of thecity in those infected and obscure quarters, never hearingthe first words of love at their ear and in their heart excepton the stairways reeking of boiled cabbage, or under theportes-cocheres that exhale an odour mingled of mud andadulterated wine. 112 PARIS Thanks to these places planted with trees, to these pub-lic gardens established in each of the quarters, that is nolonger the case. It is strange that Paris does not possess a flower-marketconvenient or simply covered over like the Holies. Whyis there not a well-established Halle aux Fleurs like theHalle aux Legumes and the Halle aux Poissons ?. REVERIE GEORGE SAND I KNOW of no city in the world where strolling rev-erie is more agreeable than in Paris. If the poorpedestrian through heat and cold meets innumerabletribulations there, it must also be confessed that in the finedays of spring and autumn, if he knows his own happi-ness, he is a privileged mortal. For my part, I like torecognize that no vehicle, from the sumptuous equipage tothe modest hack, can be compared, for sweet and smilingreverie, with the pleasure of making use of two good legs,on the asphalt or pavement, obeying the whim of their pro-prietor. Let him who will regret ancient Paris; my intel-lectual faculties have never permitted me to know its de-tours^ although like so many others I have been brought upthere. To-day, what great vistas, too straight for the artis-tic eye but eminently sure, allow us to go on for a longwhile with our hands in our pockets without going astrayand without being forced every mom
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