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Excerpt from Paris and Her People Under the Third Republic
I do not claim for it any higher status than that of a memoire pour servir, which may, in some degree, prepare the ground for future writers on Parisian history. Many names, many titles, will be found in the course of the ensuing pages. The classified lists which are given in my index testify to the prodigious activity of Paris in, for instance, such spheres as literature and the stage. Yet they are by no means exhaustive. Many more authors, actors, actresses, painters, scientists, operas, plays, books, etc., have been reserved by me for the other volume which I wish to write and there are doubtless some names and titles which I might even have included in the present volume had I found space for them. If any notable omissions, due to forget fulness, are pointed out to me by my critics, I will do my best to remedy them hereafter. I may add that considerations of space have often prevented me from giving more than a name or a title, but when ever opportunity has allowed it I have endeavoured to add a few words of appreciation or criticism. I think, however, that even the mere nomenclature which will be found in my pages may prove of some little utility. Whilst I dissent strongly from the View that Paris Is to be judged chiefly by what one may call the more frivolous sides of its life, I readily agree that these must not be ignored. I have glanced at them now and again in the present volume notably in regard to the brasseries and the Mont martre caboulots, including the notorious Chat Noir, but these latter places were from the outset chiefly patronized by the cosmopolitan element in the popu lation of Paris or else by young students from the French provinces, and, curiously enough, quite a number of them were really' run' 'by Germans, who passed themselves off as being of Alsatian origin. A few, of a genuine French character, have Survived the war. Others disappeared soon after its advent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
