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Title: About Paris
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Davis, Richard Harding, 1864-1916 Gibson, Charles Dana, 1867-1944, illus
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Publisher: New York, Harper
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
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e may sleep with his orher head on the table, or lie at length up-stairson the floor of that room where one still sees thestucco cupids of the fine ladys boudoir. It isnow a lodging-house for beggars and for thosewho collect the ends of castaway cigars and ci-garettes on the boulevards, and possibly forthose who thieve in a small way. By ten oclockeach night the place is filled with men andwomen sleeping heavily at the tables, with theirheads on their arms, or gathered together formiserable company, whispering and gossiping,each sipping jealously of his glass of red wine. There is a little room at the rear, the walls ofwhich are painted with scenes of celebrated mur-ders, and the portraits of the murderers, of an-archists, and of their foes the police. A sharp-faced boy points to these with his cap, andrecites his lesson in a high singsong, and in anargot which makes all he says quite unintelligi-ble. He is interesting chiefly because the menof whom he speaks are heroes to him, and he
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THE SHOW-PLACES OF PARIS 6l roars forth the name of Antoine, who mur-dered the policeman Jervois, as though he weresaying Gambetta, the founder of the republic,and with the innocent confidence that you willshare with him in his enthusiasm. The picturesare ghastly things, in which the artist has chieflydone himself honor in the generous use of scar-let paint for blood, and in the way he has shownhow by rapid gradations the criminal descendsfrom well-dressed innocence to ragged vicious-ness, until he reaches the steps of the guillotineat Roquette. It is a miserable chamber of hor-rors, in which the heavy-eyed absinthe-drinkersraise their heads to stare mistily at the visitor,and to listen for the hundredth time to theboys glib explanation of each daub in the gal-lery around them, from the picture of the ver-milion-cheeked young woman who caused thetrouble, to an imaginative picture of Montfauconcovered with skulls, where, many years in thepast, criminals swung in chains. The cafe of Per

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