Paris Vistas

Paris Vistas
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Helen Davenport Gibbons. Paris Vistas

Paris Vistas

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FOREWORD

1887-1888

PARIS VISTAS

CHAPTER I. CHILDHOOD VISTAS

1899

CHAPTER II. AT SIXTEEN

1908

CHAPTER III. A HONEYMOON PROMISE

1909-1910

CHAPTER IV. THE PROMISE FULFILLED

CHAPTER V. THE PENSION IN THE RUE MADAME

CHAPTER VI. LARES AND PENATES IN THE RUE SERVANDONI

CHAPTER VII. GOLD IN THE CHIMNEY

CHAPTER VIII. AT THE BIBLIOTHÈQUE NATIONALE

CHAPTER IX. EMILIE IN MONOLOGUE

CHAPTER X. HUNTING APACHES

CHAPTER XI. DRIFTWOOD

CHAPTER XII. SOME OF OUR GUESTS

CHAPTER XIII. WALKS AT NIGHTFALL

CHAPTER XIV. AFTER-DINNER COFFEE

CHAPTER XV. REPOS HEBDOMADAIRE

CHAPTER XVI "MANY WATERS CANNOT QUENCH LOVE"

CHAPTER XVII. REAL PARIS SHOWS

CHAPTER XVIII. THE SPELL OF JUNE

1913

CHAPTER XIX. CHILDHOOD VISTAS FOR A NEW GENERATION

CHAPTER XX. THE PROBLEM OF HOUSING

1914

CHAPTER XXI "NACH PARIS!"

1914-1915

CHAPTER XXII. AT HOME IN THE WHIRLWIND

CHAPTER XXIII. SAUVONS LES BÉBÉS

CHAPTER XXIV. UNCOMFORTABLE NEUTRALITY

1917

CHAPTER XXV. HOW WE KEPT WARM

CHAPTER XXVI. APRIL SIXTH

CHAPTER XXVII. THE VANGUARD OF THE A. E. F

1918

CHAPTER XXVIII. THE DARKEST DAYS

CHAPTER XXIX. THE GOTHAS AND BIG BERTHA

CHAPTER XXX. THE BIRD CHARMER OF THE TUILERIES

CHAPTER XXXI. THE QUATORZE OF TESTING

CHAPTER XXXII. THE LIBERATION OF LILLE

CHAPTER XXXIII. ARMISTICE NIGHT

CHAPTER XXXIV. ROYAL VISITORS

CHAPTER XXXV. THE FIRST PEACE CHRISTMAS

1919

CHAPTER XXXVI. PLOTTING PEACE

CHAPTER XXXVII. LA VIE CHÈRE

CHAPTER XXXVIII. THE REVENGE OF VERSAILLES

CHAPTER XXXIX. THE QUATORZE OF VICTORY

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WE left Oxford very suddenly. Six weeks in the Bodleian Library, in spite of canoeing every afternoon, sufficed to go through a collection of contemporary pamphlets about the Guises. And then we were getting hungry. Since he never changes the menu, roast beef and roast lamb alternating night after night, and accompanied by naked potatoes and cabbage, must content the Englishman. But all who have not a British birthright either lose their appetites or go wild after a time. We thought that we could not stand another day of seeing that awful two-compartment vegetable dish. It never contained a surprise. You could swear with safety to your soul that when the lid was lifted a definite combination of white and green would meet your eye.

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