. Twenty centuries of Paris . uld-be passengers on an omnibus or a bateaumouche. They disclose little that looks like slumsto the eye of a Londoner or a New Yorker, fordirt and sadness rather than congestion makeslums, and the poor Parisian looks clean andcheerful even when a hole in his stocking haslet all his savings escape. History lurks at every corner of these commands attention to the imposing pile ofNotre Dame, it piques curiosity by the palpablyancient turrets of the rue Hautefeuille. Thenon-existent is recalled by the tablet on the siteof the house where Coligny was assassi
. Twenty centuries of Paris . uld-be passengers on an omnibus or a bateaumouche. They disclose little that looks like slumsto the eye of a Londoner or a New Yorker, fordirt and sadness rather than congestion makeslums, and the poor Parisian looks clean andcheerful even when a hole in his stocking haslet all his savings escape. History lurks at every corner of these commands attention to the imposing pile ofNotre Dame, it piques curiosity by the palpablyancient turrets of the rue Hautefeuille. Thenon-existent is recalled by the tablet on the siteof the house where Coligny was assassinated, bythe outline of Philip Augustuss Louvre tracedon the eastern courtyard of the palace, by thename of the street that passes over the mad kingsmenagerie at the Hotel Saint Paul. EtienneMarcel sits his horse beside the City Hall hebought for Paris; Desmoulins mounts his chairin the garden of the Palais Royal to make thepassionate speech that wrought the destruction 382 TWENTY CENTURIES OF PARIS Place SlGermiin tAuxe^.ais. o w H ft O O (J M pM H BH 0 HH ft(4 O H enH© B M B©8 § t9 a ® O 3 TO © ™ fc,. WS-rH 3 ^ H © O00 u § TO 5 «-oJ2«J d o 5 3« a c9 § ©a &S5 I TO ao Tu/Iertes PARIS OF TO-DAY 383 of the Bastille. Even the boucheries chevalines,the markets that sell horse steaks and ass andmule meat of the first quality, bring back thedays when Henry IV cut off supplies comingfrom the suburbs of Paris and when, three hun-dred years later, the Prussians used the samemeans to gain the same end. That the Parisiansof to-day are willing to take chances on universalpeace in the future seems attested by (1913) of the Municipal Council to convertthe fortifications and the land adjacent intoparks. The people of the markets, at any rate,are not worrying about any possibilities of hungerfor they continue as hard-working and as fluentas when they acted as Marie Antoinettes escorton the occasion of the Joyous Entry fromVersailles, though kinder now in heart and
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