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Title: Paris herself again in 1878-9
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Sala, George Augustus, 1828-1895
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Publisher: London : Remington and Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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246 PARIS HERSELF AGAIX. the Paris cabman, like that of a Margate fly-driver, was toget as many people into his carriage with, as many separateaugmentations of fare as lie possibly could. The reign of theenormous tapissieres and chars-d-bancs is likewise at an end ;and few—now that it is no longer a matter of convenience toreach the Exhibition for the moderate fare of seventy-five centimes—will regret the disappearance of the unwieldy caravans in ques-tion. I was actually enabled at noon this morning to cross theboulevard from the Grand Cafe to the Rue Neuve St. Augustinwithout feeling in mortal dread of being crushed by a tayissiere,
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run into by a cab, run over by the T-cart or the phaeton of amember of the Jockey Club, brayed beneath the wheels of anadvertising van—we had to put the last-named nuisances down by GONE ! 247 Act of Parliament more than twenty years ago—smashed by oneof the fomrgons of the Grands Magasins du Louvre, or utterlyannihilated beneath the wheels of one of the monstrous vehicles ofthe Compagnie Generate des Omnibus. Yes, Paris is Herself again. Even last night I found out thatgratifying fact when I dined at the restaurant I had fixed upon inperfect comfort. During the last three months the nightly anddolorous question which I have addressed to myself has been less•Where shall Idine?thanShallI be able to dineanywhere at all? c_I have sat down,metaphoricallyspeaking, beforethe restaurant ofthe MaisonDoree,even as a militarycommander in theold days of war-fare used to sitdown before abesieged city. Inave progressive- AT A restaurant after the exhibition (by cham).ly advanced myparallels,

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