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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Helen Davenport Gibbons
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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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