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John Frederick Macdonald. The Amazing City
The Amazing City
Table of Contents
PREFACE
I. IN THE STREET
II. IN A CELLAR
III. IN A MARKET-PLACE
IV. BOURGEOISIE
1. M. Durand at Marie-le-Bois
2. Pension de Famille. The Beautiful Mademoiselle Marie, who loved Gambetta
3. Pension de Famille. French and Piano Lessons. Les Saintes Filles, Mesdemoiselles Périvier
4. The Affair of the Collars
V. ON STRIKE
1. When it was Dark in Paris
2. Birds of the State at the Post Office
3. After the Storm at Villeneuve-St-Georges
VI. COTTIN & COMPANY
VII. THE LATIN QUARTER
1. Mère Casimir
2. Gloom on the Rive Gauche
3. The Daughter of the Students
VIII. MONSIEUR LE ROUÉ
IX. FRENCH LIFE AND THE FRENCH STAGE
1. M. Paul Bourget, the Reactionary Playwright, and M. Pataud, who put out the Lights of Paris
2. M. Alfred Capus. “Nôtre Jeunesse” at the Française
3. M. Brieux, “La Déserteuse,” at the Odéon
4. Paris, M. Edmond Rostand, and “Chantecler”
X. AFTER CHANTECLER
XI. AU COURS D’ASSISES. PARIS AND MADAME STEINHEIL
XII. THE LATE JULES GUÉRIN AND THE DEFENCE OF FORT CHABROL
XIII. DEATH OF HENRI ROCHEFORT[6]
XIV. ROYAL VISITS TO PARIS
XV. AT THE ÉLYSÉE. MESSIEURS LES PRÉSIDENTS
1. M. Loubet and Paul Déroulède
2. M. Armand Fallières. Morocco and the Floods
3. M. Raymond Poincaré and the Record of M. Lépine
XVI. MADAME LA PRÉSIDENTE, M. GEORGES CLEMENCEAU AND THE UNFORTUNATE M. PAMS
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John Frederick Macdonald
Published by Good Press, 2021
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A few thousand francs invested in French rentes, but returning a sum insufficient to satisfy even the Mesdemoiselles Périvier’s frugal needs, was all that remained. Imperative, therefore, to do something. And one morning the elder Mademoiselle Périvier (aged sixty-three) and her sister, Mademoiselle Berthe Périvier (three years her junior) affixed a black-edged visiting-card to their door. Under their joint names appeared the intimation: “Pension de Famille. French and Piano Lessons. Moderate Terms.”
Then, in the Paris edition of The New York Herald, the Mesdemoiselles Périvier offered a home to English and American girls desirous of studying painting in the Latin Quarter; the six-roomed flat, in the shadow of St Sulpice, being also in the neighbourhood of Julian’s and Vitti’s art schools. A few flower-pots for the flat. The half-dumb, yellow-keyed old piano repaired. Far into the night the Mesdemoiselles Périvier studied French and English grammars; at intervals during the day the elder Mademoiselle Périvier was to be heard practising feebly on the piano... against the arrival of pupils and pensionnaires.
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