The Amazing City
by John Frederick Macdonald
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About this eBook
- Author
- Macdonald, John Frederick, -1915
- Credits
- E-text prepared by MFR and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive ( archive.org)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- DC: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: France, Andorra, Monaco
- Subject
- Paris (France) -- Social life and customs
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 63522
- Release Date
- October 21, 2020
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE AMAZING CITY
- 2.CONTENTS
- 3.PREFACE
- 4.I IN THE STREET
- 5.II IN A CELLAR
- 6.III IN A MARKET-PLACE
- 7.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
- 8.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
- 9.VI COTTIN & COMPANY
- 10.VII THE LATIN QUARTER — 1. Mère Casimir — 2. Gloom on the Rive Gauche — 3. The Daughter of the Students
- 11.VIII MONSIEUR LE ROUÉ
- 12.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”
- 13.X AFTER CHANTECLER
- 14.XI AU COURS D’ASSISES. PARIS AND MADAME STEINHEIL
- 15.XII THE LATE JULES GUÉRIN AND THE DEFENCE OF FORT CHABROL
- 16.XIII DEATH OF HENRI ROCHEFORT [6]
- 17.XIV ROYAL VISITS TO PARIS
- 18.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
- 19.XVI MADAME LA PRÉSIDENTE, M. GEORGES CLEMENCEAU AND THE UNFORTUNATE M. PAMS
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