This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt: ...the book-plate of Antoine Chevalier, canon of Paris, 165o, the book-plate being a long escutcheon with these words inscribed: Ad usum perpetuum Congregationis Sacerdotum Montis Valeriani, 173o. If anything we can offer here can contribute towards the disenchantment of the right bank, we shall have wasted neither time ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt: ...the book-plate of Antoine Chevalier, canon of Paris, 165o, the book-plate being a long escutcheon with these words inscribed: Ad usum perpetuum Congregationis Sacerdotum Montis Valeriani, 173o. If anything we can offer here can contribute towards the disenchantment of the right bank, we shall have wasted neither time nor words. That long desert of quays along the Pavilion de Flore and the Louvre would be animated by a picturesque, useful life if the stallkeepers could take up their quarters there and find the locality profitable enough at the outset. A man of enterprise and audacity has recently placed his boxes at the end of the Pont Royal near the steamboat steps, facing on the other side of the Seine the stall of Chevalier. He is polite and agreeable, and has a few books among which, according to our taste and plans, we may sometimes find a few good old samples at reasonable prices. We wish him all success in his attempt, and we shall not be out of touch of the levelling spirit of the age in. demanding for the parapets of the right bank, as for those of the left, as noble a crest of well-furnished bookboxes. Before we finish we cannot--although it may be outside our limit--avoid mention of a pious remembrance of the old stall-keeper of whom Schanne speaks in his Souvenirs de Schaunard, who spread out his stall on the parapet of the Pont Marie and the Quai des Ormes. 'He allowed the passers-by to read at a sou the sitting, and provided them with a chair, ' when the customer did not prefer to sit on the parapet. The only reader to whom he ever gave credit was Hegesippe Moreau, the sickly face of the poet having evoked his pity. On the contrary, Miirger would never, in spite of the generous resistance of Schaunard, accept a seat for a reading in this ' cabin...
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