Paris herself again in 1878-9 . hasable by all save the wealthy classes. If you did notmind giving a rouble for a bottle of Guinnesss Dublin stout, youmight lay in as many dozen as you chose ; otherwise you werefain to be content with quas or with Moscow piva. Taking the Avenue de 1Opera as a whole—palatial shops,enormous restaurant^ and cafes, electric lamps and all—andcomparing it with the adjacent and much-loved Bue de la Paix,I should qualify the last-named thoroughfare as a French streetspecially designed for the delight of English people, while theAvenue de 1Opera is to most intents and
Paris herself again in 1878-9 . hasable by all save the wealthy classes. If you did notmind giving a rouble for a bottle of Guinnesss Dublin stout, youmight lay in as many dozen as you chose ; otherwise you werefain to be content with quas or with Moscow piva. Taking the Avenue de 1Opera as a whole—palatial shops,enormous restaurant^ and cafes, electric lamps and all—andcomparing it with the adjacent and much-loved Bue de la Paix,I should qualify the last-named thoroughfare as a French streetspecially designed for the delight of English people, while theAvenue de 1Opera is to most intents and purposes a street fullof British things, meant to attract the admiration and patronageof French people. Cosmopolitan customers, of course, frequentthe magnificent Cafe Restaurant Foy—kept by the historic Bignon THE AVENUE DE loPERA. 353 —and the Cafe Restaurant de Paris, which may be described asa phoenix risen from the ashes of the old Cafe de Paris, hard byTortonis in the Boulevard ; but the shops, as shops, seem com-. A PICKKR-UP OF CIGAR-ENDS IN THE AVENUE DE LOPERA. mendably ambitious to persuade Frenchmen to buy English British linoleum invites Parisian notice and support. Agrand-British art-gallery offers to the inspection of Parisian VOL. If. 354 TARIS HERSELF AGAIN. amateurs a brilliant collection of pictures by the best knownpainters of the United Kingdom. Nor is America backward inannouncing her adhesion to the cosmopolitan principles whichseem dominant in the Avenue de lOpera. The New York Heraldhas here its Paris offices; and the famous New York jeweller andgoldsmith, Tiffany, has established himself in the Avenue tomaintain the high repute which he won in gaining the GrandPrix in the Universal Exhibition. In fine, perhaps the mostcomprehensive thing to say about a thoroughfare to which I amnow bidding farewell, and which these eyes may never look uponagain, is that the Avenue de lOpera is less a characteristicallyParisian street than a permanent
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