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Title: The Real Latin Quarter

Author: F. Berkeley Smith

Illustrator: F. Berkeley Smith
F. Hopkinson Smith

Release Date: January 20, 2010 [EBook #30981]

Language: English

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TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE: Variations in hyphenation, capitalization, and
spelling have been retained as in the original. Minor printer errors
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[Illustration: IN THE GARDENS OF THE LUXEMBOURG

_WATER COLOR DRAWING BY_
F. HOPKINSON SMITH
PARIS, 1901]

THE REAL
LATIN QUARTER

By F. BERKELEY SMITH

[Illustration: (portrait of woman)]

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY THE AUTHOR
INTRODUCTION AND FRONTISPIECE BY
F. HOPKINSON SMITH

FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY
NEW YORK . NINETEEN HUNDRED AND ONE

Copyright, 1901
by
Funk & Wagnalls Company

Registered
at
Stationers' Hall
London, England

Printed in the
United States of America

Published in
November, 1901

[Illustration: (teapot with cup)]

CONTENTS

Page
Introduction 7

Chapter

I. In the Rue Vaugirard 11

II. The Boulevard St. Michel 29

III. The "Bal Bullier" 52

IV. Bal des Quat'z' Arts 70

V. "A Dejeuner at Lavenue's" 93

VI. "At Marcel Legay's" 113

VII. "Pochard" 129

VIII. The Luxembourg Gardens 151

IX. "The Ragged Edge of the Quarter" 173

X. Exiled