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NOOKS AND CORNERS
OF OLD PARIS




[Illustration: THE RUE DU CHAUME IN 1866 (TO-DAY, THE RUE DES ARCHIVES)
SOUBISE MANSION--CLISSON TOWER
_Drawing by A. Maignan_]




NOOKS & CORNERS
OF OLD PARIS


_by_
GEORGES CAIN

CURATOR OF THE CARNAVALET MUSEUM AND OF THE HISTORIC COLLECTIONS
OF THE CITY OF PARIS


_With a Preface by_
VICTORIEN SARDOU


WITH OVER A HUNDRED ILLUSTRATIONS


LONDON
E. GRANT RICHARDS
1907




_The Translation has been made by_
FREDERICK LAWTON, M.A.




DEDICATED
TO
A. G. LENOTRE
IN TOKEN OF MOST SINCERE
AFFECTION

  G. C.
  _December_ 1905.




LIST OF ENGRAVINGS


   1. The Rue du Chaume in 1866 (to-day, the Rue des
          Archives)                                       _Frontispiece_
   2. The Place de la Bastille and the Elephant                     xvii
   3. Demolition of the Rue Sainte-Hyacinthe-Saint-Michel,
          opposite to the Rue Soufflot                             xxiii
   4. The Town Hall in 1838                                        xxvii
   5. The Pont-Neuf about 1850                                      xxxi
   6. The Louvre about 1785                                         xxxv
   7. The Courtyard of the Carrousel and the Museums about 1848    xxxix
   8. The Garden of the Palais Royal in 1791                       xliii
   9. The Place de la Concorde                                     xlvii
  10. Patrol Road leading from the Barrier of the Etoile in 1854
          (to-day the Avenue de Wagram)                             liii
  11. The Carnavalet Museum                                          lix
  12. The Pont-Royal, the Tuileries, and the Louvre (eighteenth
          century)                                                 lxiii
  13. View of the Pont-Neuf, taken from an oval window in the
          Colonnade of the Louvre                                     67
  14. Workshops and Foundations of the City Barracks in 1864-1865     71
  15. View of Notre-Dame                                              75
  16. The "Petit-Pont"                                                79
  17. The Old Prefecture of Police (formerly Jerusalem Street)        81
  18. The Sainte-Chapelle in 1875                                     83
  19. Opening up of the space in front of the Palais de Justice       85
  20. The Cour des Filles in the Conciergerie                         89
  21. The Triumph of Marat                                            93
  22. The Dauphine Square in 1780                                     97
  23. The Pont Marie in 1886                                         103
  24. The Isle of Saint-Louis                                        107
  25. The College of Louis-le-Grand                                  111
  26. The Inner Courtyard of the Ecole Polytechnique                 113
  27. The Rue Clovis in 1867                                         115
  28. The Rue de la Montagne-Sainte-Genevieve in 1866                119
  29. The Pantheon, in building                                      121
  30. Procession in front of Sainte-Genevieve                        123
  31. The Apotheosis of Jean-Jacques Rousseau                        127
  32. The Luxembourg, about 1790                                     131
  33. Fraternal Suppers in the Sections of Paris                     135
  34. Fete given at the Luxembourg on the 20th of Frimaire,
          Anno VII.                                                  139
  35. The Rue de l'Ecole de Medecine in 1866 (house where Marat
          was assassinated)                                          143
  36. The Gallery of the Odeon (Rue Rotrou)                          146
  37. The Rohan Courtyard in 1901                                    147
  38. The Rohan Courtyard in 1901 (second view)                      151
  39. The Rue Visconti                                               155
  40. Alfred de Musset at 23 years of age                            157
  41. The Facade of the Institute                                    160
  42. View from the Louvre Quay                                      161
  43. Paris from the Pointe de la Cite                               165
  44. The Rue des Pretres-Saint-Severin in 1866                      169
  45. The Passage des Patriarches                                    173
  46. The Rue Mouffetard                                             176
  47. The Rue Galande                                                177
  48. The Place Maubert                                              179
  49. The Old Amphitheatre of Surgery at the corner of the
          Colbert Mansion                                            181
  50. The Church of Saint-Nicolas-du-Chardonneret and the Rue
          Saint-Victor                                               183
  51. The Rue Saint-Julien-le-Pauvre                                 186
  52. The Jardin des Plantes--The Cedar of Lebanon and the
          Labyrinth                                                  187
  53. The Jardin des Plantes in the eighteenth century               191
  54. The Jardin des Plantes--Cuvier's House                         195
  55. The Rue de Bievre                                              199
  56. The Bievre Tanneries                                           203
  57. The Bievre about 1900--The Valence Mill-race                   207
  58. The Constantine Bridge and Stockade                            211
  59. The Pont-Royal in 1800                                         213
  60. The Lesdiguieres Mansion                                       215
  61. Commemorative Ball on the Ruins of the Bastille                217
  62. The Sens Mansion about 1835                                    221
  63. The Provost Hugues Aubryot's Mansion--Charlemagne's
          Courtyard and Passage in 1867                              227
  64. The Place Royale about 1651 (now the Vosges Square)            231
  65. The Rue Grenier-sur-l'Eau in 1866                              235
  66. The Saint-Paul Port                                            237
  67. The Barbett Mansion                                            238
  68. The Rue de Venise                                              243
  69. The Rue du Renard-Saint-Merry                                  247
  70. The Rue des Prouvaires and the Rue Saint-Eustache about 1850   250
  71. The Central Market foot-pavement, near the Church of
          Saint-Eustache, in 1867                                    252
  72. The Central Market in 1828                                     254
  73. The Central Market in 1822                                     255
  74. Moliere's House in the Rue de la Tonnellerie                   257
  75. The Tower of Saint-Jacques-la-Boucherie about 1848             259
  76. Alexander's Grand Cafe Royal on the Temple Boulevard           263
  77. Fanchon, the Hurdy-Gurdy player                                267
  78. View of the Ambigu-Comique on the Temple Boulevard             271
  79. The Funambules Theatre on the Temple Boulevard                 273
  80. The Ambigu Theatre and Boulevard about 1830                    277
  81. The Porte Saint-Martin                                         281
  82. The Rue Saint-Martin in 1866--The Green-Wood Tower             284
  83. The Rue de Clery                                               285
  84. The Poissonniere Boulevard in 1834                             289
  85. The Gymnase Theatre                                            292
  86. The Variety Theatre about 1810                                 293
  87. The Boulevards, the Hotel de Salm, and Windmills of
          Montmartre                                                 297
  88. The Rue de la Barre at Montmartre                              299
  89. A Street in Montmartre                                         301
  90. The Rue des Rosiers                                            303
  91. The Place de la Concorde in 1829                               305
  92. Ingenuous Benevolence                                          307
  93. The Place de la Concorde (second view)                         309
  94. The Entrance to the Tuileries, over the Swing Bridge, in 1788  311
  95. Corner Pavilion of the Louis XV. Square about 1850             313
  96. View in the Tuileries Gardens in 1808                          315
  97. The Rue Greuze in 1855                                         318
  98. The Madrid Chateau                                             319
  99. The Bagatelle Pavilion                                         322
 100. A Performance at the Hippodrome under the Second Empire        323
 101. The Arc de Triomphe about 1850                                 325




[Illustration: Drawn by Saffrey]




PREFACE


_Grandson and son of two rare and justly-renowned artists, P. J. Mene
and Auguste Cain, my excellent friend, Georges Cain, has abundantly
shown that he is the worthy inheritor of their talent. To-day, he wishes
to prove that he knows how "to handle the pen as well as the pencil" as
our Ancients used to say, and that the Carnavalet Museum has in him, not
only the active and enthusiastic Curator that we constantly see at his
task, but also the most enlightened guide possible in matters of
Parisian lore; and so he has written this bewitching book which conjures
up before me the Paris of my childhood and youth--the Paris of times
gone by, which, in the course of centuries, has undergone many
transformations, but not one so rapid and so complete as that which I
have witnessed. The change, indeed, is such that, in certain quarters, I
have difficulty in recognising, in the city of Napoleon III., that of
Louis-Philippe. The latter would have been uninhabitable now, owing to
the requirements of modern life, but it answered to the needs and
customs of its time. People put up then with difficulties and defects
that were