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<SPAN name="startofbook"></SPAN> <div> <div class="figcenter"> <ANTIMG src="images/image001.jpg" width-obs="362" height-obs="450" alt="THE REAL LATIN QUARTER Book Cover" title="" /></div> <br/><br/><br/> <div class="tranotes"><p><span class="smcap">Transcriber’s Note</span>: Variations in hyphenation, capitalization, and spelling have been retained as in the original. Minor printer errors have been amended without note. Obvious typos have been amended and are underlined in the text: original text appears in a mouse hoverbox over each amended typo, like <span title=" thsi " class="hoverbox">this</span>. Some illustrations have been relocated for better flow, causing some page numbers to be removed. Other missing page numbers are due to blank pages being removed.</p> </div> <br/><br/><br/> <div class="figcenter"> <ANTIMG src="images/image002.jpg" width-obs="283" height-obs="450" alt="THE REAL LATIN QUARTER" title="" /></div> <br/> <hr class="dshd" /> <br/> <div class="figcenter"> <ANTIMG src="images/image003.jpg" width-obs="660" height-obs="398" alt="" title="" /> <span class="caption">IN THE GARDENS OF THE LUXEMBOURG<br/> <span class="smfont"><i>WATER COLOR DRAWING BY</i></span><br/> F. HOPKINSON SMITH<br/> <span class="smfont">PARIS, 1901</span></span></div> <br/><br/> <hr class="dshd" /> <br/><br/> <h1 class="wdltrs serfont">THE REAL<br/> LATIN QUARTER<br/></h1> <br/> <h3 class="wdltrs">By F. BERKELEY SMITH</h3> <br/> <div class="figcenter"> <ANTIMG src="images/image004.jpg" width-obs="140" height-obs="200" alt="(portrait of woman)" title="" /></div> <br/> <div class="center"> <div class="smfont wdltrs">WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY THE AUTHOR<br/> INTRODUCTION AND FRONTISPIECE BY<br/> <table class="fig"> summary="name"> <tr> <td align="left"><ANTIMG src="images/image007.jpg" width-obs="30" height-obs="22" alt="" title="" /></td> <td>  F. HOPKINSON SMITH  </td> <td align="right"><ANTIMG src="images/image007.jpg" width-obs="30" height-obs="22" alt="" title="" /></td> </tr> </table></div> <br/> FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY <br/> <span class="smfont">NEW YORK <span class="lgfont">·</span> NINETEEN HUNDRED AND ONE</span></div> <br/><br/> <hr class="dshd" /> <br/><br/> <p class="right smfont">Copyright, 1901<br/> by<br/> Funk & Wagnalls<br/> Company<br/> <br/> Registered<br/> at<br/> Stationers’<br/> Hall<br/> London, England<br/> <br/> Printed in the<br/> United States of America<br/> <br/> Published in<br/> November, 1901<br/></p> <hr class="dshd" /> <div class="figright"> <ANTIMG src="images/image005.jpg" width-obs="200" height-obs="165" alt="(teapot with cup)" title="" /></div> <div class="center clearrt"> <table border="0" cellpadding="2" width="65%" cellspacing="0" summary="CONTENTS"> <tr><th align="center" colspan="3" class="toctitle" >CONTENTS</th></tr> <tr><td> </td> <td> </td> <td align="right" class="smfont">Page  </td> </tr> <tr><td align="left" colspan="2">  <SPAN name="INTRO" id="INTRO" href="#Page_7">Introduction</SPAN></td> <td align="right">7  </td> </tr> <tr><td align="right" class="smfont">Chapter</td> <td> </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr><td align="right"><SPAN href="#Page_11">I.</SPAN></td> <td align="left"><SPAN name="TOC1" id="TOC1" href="#Page_11">In the Rue Vaugirard</SPAN></td> <td align="right">11  </td> </tr> <tr><td align="right"><SPAN href="#Page_29">II.</SPAN></td> <td align="left"><SPAN name="TOC2" id="TOC2" href="#Page_29">The Boulevard St. Michel</SPAN></td> <td align="right">29  </td> </tr> <tr><td align="right"><SPAN href="#Page_52">III.</SPAN></td> <td align="left"><SPAN name="TOC3" id="TOC3" href="#Page_52">The “Bal Bullier”</SPAN></td> <td align="right">52  </td> </tr> <tr><td align="right"><SPAN href="#Page_70">IV.</SPAN></td> <td align="left"><SPAN name="TOC4" id="TOC4" href="#Page_70">Bal des Quat’z’ Arts</SPAN></td> <td align="right">70  </td> </tr> <tr><td align="right"><SPAN href="#Page_93">V.</SPAN></td> <td align="left"><SPAN name="TOC5" id="TOC5" href="#Page_93">“A Déjeuner at Lavenue’s”</SPAN></td> <td align="right">93  </td> </tr> <tr><td align="right"><SPAN href="#Page_113">VI.</SPAN></td> <td align="left"><SPAN name="TOC6" id="TOC6" href="#Page_113">“At Marcel Legay’s”</SPAN></td> <td align="right">113  </td> </tr> <tr><td align="right"><SPAN href="#Page_129">VII.</SPAN></td> <td align="left"><SPAN name="TOC7" id="TOC7" href="#Page_129">“Pochard”</SPAN></td> <td align="right">129  </td> </tr> <tr><td align="right"><SPAN href="#Page_151">VIII.</SPAN></td> <td align="left"><SPAN name="TOC8" id="TOC8" href="#Page_151">The Luxembourg Gardens</SPAN></td> <td align="right">151  </td> </tr> <tr><td align="right"><SPAN href="#Page_173">IX.</SPAN></td> <td align="left"><SPAN name="TOC9" id="TOC9" href="#Page_173">“The Ragged Edge of the Quarter”</SPAN></td> <td align="right">173  </td> </tr> <tr><td align="right"><SPAN href="#Page_194">X.</SPAN></td> <td align="left"><SPAN name="TOC10" id="TOC10" href="#Page_194">Exiled</SPAN></td> <td align="right">194  </td> </tr> </table></div> <div class="figleft"> <ANTIMG src="images/image006.jpg" width-obs="600" height-obs="351" alt="(wine bottles with glass)" title="" /></div> <hr class="dshd" /> <p class="clearlft"><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_7" id="Page_7">- 7 -</SPAN></span></p> <br/> <h2><SPAN name="INTRODUCTION" id="INTRODUCTION" href="#INTRO"> <span title=" Return to CONTENTS. " class="hoverlink">INTRODUCTION</span></SPAN></h2> <div class="figcenter"> <ANTIMG src="images/image007.jpg" width-obs="30" height-obs="22" alt="" title="" /></div> <p>“Cocher, drive to the rue Falguière”—this in my best restaurant French.</p> <p>The man with the varnished hat shrugged his shoulders, and raised his eyebrows in doubt. He evidently had never heard of the rue Falguière. “Yes, rue Falguière, the old rue des Fourneaux,” I continued.</p> <p>Cabby’s face broke out into a smile. “Ah, oui, oui, le Quartier Latin.”</p> <p>And it was at the end of this crooked street, through a lane that led into a half court flanked by a row of studio buildings, and up one pair of dingy waxed steps, that I found a door bearing the name of the author of the following pages—his visiting card impaled on a tack. He was in his shirt-sleeves—the thermometer stood at 90° outside—working at his desk, surrounded by half-finished sketches and manuscript.</p> <p>The man himself I had met before—I<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_8" id="Page_8">- 8 -</SPAN></span> had known him for years, in fact—but the surroundings were new to me. So too were his methods of work.</p> <p>Nowadays when a man would write of the Siege of Peking or the relief of some South African town with the unpronounceable name, his habit is to rent a room on an up-town avenue, move in an inkstand and pad, and a collection of illustrated papers and encyclopedias. This writer on the rue Falguière chose a different plan. He would come back year after year, and study his subject and compile his impressions of the Quarter in the very atmosphere of the place itself; within a stone’s throw of the Luxembourg Gardens and the Panthéon; near the cafés and the Bullier; next door, if you please, to the public laundry where his washerwoman pays a few sous for the privilege of pounding his clothes into holes.</p> <p>It all seemed very real to me, as I sat beside him and watched him at work. The method delighted me. I have similar ideas myself about the value of his kind of study in out-door sketching, compared with the labored work of the studio, and I have most<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_9" id="Page_9">- 9 -</SPAN></span> positive opinions regarding the quality which comes of it.</p> <p>If then the pages which here follow have in them any of the true inwardness of the life they are meant to portray, it is due, I feel sure, as much to the attitude of the author toward his subject, as much to his ability to seize, retain, and express these instantaneous impressions, these flash pictures caught on the spot, as to any other merit which they may possess.</p> <p>Nothing can be made really <i>real</i> without it.</p> <p><span class="smcap rightfloat">F. Hopkinson Smith.   </span><br/> <span class="smfont">  Paris, August, 1901.</span><br/></p> <br/><br/><br/><br/>  <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_11" id="Page_11">- 11 -</SPAN></span></p> <br/> <div> <ANTIMG class="figleft" src="images/image008a.jpg" width-obs="620" height-obs="300" alt="(city rooftop scene)" title="" /> <ANTIMG class="figleft" src="images/image008b.jpg" width-obs="294" height-obs="212" alt="" title="" /></div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />

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