. Bohemian Paris of to-day . BUTTERFLIES OF THE CAFE LE BOUL MICH OF course the proper name for the great thor-oughfare of the Quartier Latin is the Boule-vard Saint-Michel, but the boulevardiers callit the Boul Mich, just as the students call the QuatreArts the Quatz Arts, because it is easier to say. The Boul Mich is the students highway to relax-ation. Mention of it at once recalls whirline visionsof brilliant cafes, with their clattering of saucers andglasses, the shouting of their white-aproned gargons,their hordes of gay and wicked damsels dressed inthe costliest and most fashionable gow
. Bohemian Paris of to-day . BUTTERFLIES OF THE CAFE LE BOUL MICH OF course the proper name for the great thor-oughfare of the Quartier Latin is the Boule-vard Saint-Michel, but the boulevardiers callit the Boul Mich, just as the students call the QuatreArts the Quatz Arts, because it is easier to say. The Boul Mich is the students highway to relax-ation. Mention of it at once recalls whirline visionsof brilliant cafes, with their clattering of saucers andglasses, the shouting of their white-aproned gargons,their hordes of gay and wicked damsels dressed inthe costliest and most fashionable gowns, and a mul-titude of riotous students howlinor class sones anddancing and parading to the different cafes as onlystudents can. This is the head-quarters of the Bo-hemians of real Bohemia, whose poets haunt the dim and quaint cabarets and read their compositions to 109 BOHEMIAN PARIS. SWEETMEAT PEDLER admiring friends ; of flower-girls who offer you unpetit bouquet, seulement dix centimes, and pin itinto your button-hole before you can refuse; ofTurks m picturesque native costumeselling sweetmeats ; of the cane manloaded down with immense sticks ;of the pipe man, with pipes havingstems a yard long ; of beggars, gut-ter-snipes, hot-chestnut venders, ped-lers, singers, actors, students, and allmanner of queer characters. The life of the Boul Mich beginsat the Pantheon, where repose theremains of Frances great men, andends at the Seine, where the grayGothic towers and the gargoyles ofNotre-Dame look down disdainfully upon the giddytraffic below. The eastern side of the Boul is linedwith cafes, cabarets, and brasseries. This is historic ground, for where now is the oldHotel Cluny are still to be seen the ruins of Romanbaths, and not a great distance hence are the partlyuncovered ruins of a Roman arena, with its tiers ofstone seats and its dens. The tomb of CardinalRich
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