Paris of To-dayCentury Company, 1900 - 249 pages |
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absinthe Academy ALEXANDER III BRIDGE amuse artists ball beauty better BICYCLE TRAILER Bois BOIS DE BOULOGNE boulevard café capital Castaigne Champs-Élysées Château Châteaubriand Cherbuliez church club contrivance coöperation course court crowd dance ÉLYSÉE PALACE English fair fancy fashion faubourg FÉLIX FAURE Français France French Frenchman garden give GOVERNMENTAL MACHINE hand Herblay honor hour ideal industry institution keep kind labor less literature live longue paume look matter mayor ment minister Montmartre municipal nature never night Odéon once painting PALACE Paris Parisian pass perfect perhaps play political poor President Prix de Rome quarters race Republic restaurant revolution salon scene scheme seen sense social society sometimes song sort spirit sport stage street taste thing thousand tion to-day Victor Hugo whole workman Yves Guyot
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Page 228 - He makes light of favours while he does them, and seems to be receiving when he is conferring. He never speaks of himself except when compelled, never defends himself by a mere retort, he has no ears for slander or gossip, is scrupulous in imputing motives to those who interfere with him, and interprets everything for the best. He is never mean or little in his disputes, never takes unfair advantage, never mistakes personalities or sharp sayings for arguments, or insinuates evil which he dare not...
Page 228 - The true gentleman in like manner carefully avoids whatever may cause a jar or a jolt in the minds of those with whom he is cast; all clashing of opinion, or collision of feeling, all restraint, or suspicion, or gloom, or resentment; his great concern being to make every one at their ease and at home.
Page 247 - Happy the man - and happy he alone He who can call today his own, He who, secure within, can say 'Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today: Be fair or foul or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed in spite of Fate are mine: Not Heaven itself upon the Past has power, But what has been has been, and I have had my hour.
Page 27 - They know exactly what they are going to say, and how they are going to say it, and when, by chance, their voice trembles, be sure it trembles to order.
Page 231 - Whoever is had (as it is called) in company, for the sake of any one thing singly, is singly that thing, and will never be considered in any other light ; consequently never respected, let his merits be what they will.
Page 231 - Chigi for a little mind, from the moment that he told him he had wrote three years with the same pen, and that it was an excellent good one still.
Page 17 - The twofold election of the council by the citizens, and of the mayor by the council, is the corner-stone of the system. The nation elects the Parliament and the Parliament the president in precisely the same way. The mayor, however, is still under control. He can be suspended for a month by the prefect, for three months by the minister of the interior, and forever by the president. This, as I have said, was Napoleon's gift to France, and the wiser sort, who dread her moods and their own, esteem...
Page 180 - Triomphe, and to call out the horse and foot of the garrison of Paris to carry him to his grave. So they did it — with apologies to his not implacable shade. The boulevard at night is a very different affair. The later the better. Paris, though the most northerly, is still one of the Latin cities, and the Latin cities sit up late. The farther south the more incorrigible. At Madrid the newsboys find it worth their while to cry the papers till one in the morning. The best of the night hours, for...
Page 12 - Courage, mon ami, le diable est mort!" They know perfectly well what is CROSS OF THE LEGION OF HONOR. 4M 41)3 the matter with them, and for their straitjacket they have invented the administrative machine. This is by no means to be confounded with the purely political variety of the contrivance in use in other latitudes. It is the permanent civil service, the government — in a word, the great automatic contrivance that keeps them going in national housekeeping while they are on the rampage. Nowhere...
Page 226 - St.-Pierre, who begat Chateaubriand, who begat Victor Hugo, who, being tempted of the devil, is begetting every day.