Paris herself again in 1878-9 . t St. Germain lAuxerrois orSt. Etienne du Mont. I shrewdly suspect that vast numbers ofthem went to the Louvre, and so, subsequently, to dinner at an Etablissement de Bouillon Duval, and afterwards to a brasserie,and ultimately to a cafe concert or to the play. It is no doubt avery dreadful thing, this Continental Sunday, about which wehear in England such doleful jeremiads, but there is no gettingover one fact—that the crowd in the galleries of the Louvre was aquiet crowd, a well-behaved crowd, and a crowd that seemedthoroughly to enjoy itself. When in the Salo
Paris herself again in 1878-9 . t St. Germain lAuxerrois orSt. Etienne du Mont. I shrewdly suspect that vast numbers ofthem went to the Louvre, and so, subsequently, to dinner at an Etablissement de Bouillon Duval, and afterwards to a brasserie,and ultimately to a cafe concert or to the play. It is no doubt avery dreadful thing, this Continental Sunday, about which wehear in England such doleful jeremiads, but there is no gettingover one fact—that the crowd in the galleries of the Louvre was aquiet crowd, a well-behaved crowd, and a crowd that seemedthoroughly to enjoy itself. When in the Salon Carre I saw awhole working-class household, nursegirl—carrying the baby—and all, pass with rapt and eager looks from the Nozze di Canaof Paolo Veronese to the Soult Murillo, and thence to the BelleJardiniere of Rafaelle, before which they stood as it were fasci-nated by a vision of grace and loveliness, I could not help thinkingthat there were features in the Continental Sunday which might,on consideration, be % ;0 &m
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