Sensations of Paris (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Messieurs, said Tortoni, when we asked him why it had become necessary to close the famous establishment, que voulez-vous? Le Boulevard se meurt (what will you? The Boulevard dies!) The mot has been quoted Since by others than ourselves who were not present when it was uttered. It forms the burden of the lamentations of many an Old boulevardier who mistakes his own senility for that of the Boulevard. Tortoni's is now a boot-shop. Once it was the rendezvous of all that was boulevardier in Paris. It was there.

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