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Title: The real Latin quarter
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Smith, Frank Berkeley, 1869-
Subjects: Artists
Publisher: New York, Funk & Wagnalls Co.
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collec-tion in his filthy pocket, and shuffles on tothe next cafe. It will go so far at leasttoward paying for his absinthe. He ishungry, but it is the absinthe for whichhe is working. He is a marchand demegots ; it is his profession. One finds every type of restaurant, tavern,and cafe along the Boul Miche. Thereare small restaurants whose plat du jourmight be traced to some faithful steed find-ing a final oblivion in a brown sauce andonions—an important item in a course din-ner, to be had with wine included for onefranc fifty. There are brasseries too,gloomy by day and brilliant by night (dis-pensing good Munich beer in two shades,and German and French food), whose richinteriors in carved black oak, imitationgobelin, and stained glass are never halfillumined until the lights are lit. All day, when the sun blazes, and theawnings are down, sheltering those chat-ting on the terrace, the interiors of thesebrasseries appear dark and cavernous. The clientele is somber too, and in keep-31
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A TYPE ing with the place ; silent poets, long haired,pale, and always writing ; serious-mindedlawyers, lunching alone, and fat merchantswho eat and drink methodically. Then there are bizarre cafes, like thedHarcourt, crowded at night with noisywomen tawdry in ostrich plumes, cheapfeather boas, and much rouge. The dHar-court at midnight is ablaze with light, butthe crowd is common and you move on upthe boulevard under the trees, past theshops full of Quartier fashions — velvetcoats, with standing collars buttoning closeunder the chin; flamboyant black silkscarfs tied in a huge bow; queer broad-brimmed, black hats without which notypes wardrobe is complete. On the corner facing the square, and op-posite the Luxembourg gate, is the Tav-erne du Pantheon. This is the most bril-liant cafe and restaurant of the Quarter,forming a V with its long terrace, at thecorner of the boulevard and the rue Soufflot,at the head of which towers the superbdome of the Pantheon. It is 6 p.m. and the terra

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