# How Paris Amuses Itself Author: Smith, F. Berkeley (Frank Berkeley), 1869-1931 Genre: Category: Travel Writing Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46893 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=How+Paris+Amuses+Itself+Smith&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary If you wish to buy your tickets in advance for the evening performance at the Alcazar d’Été, the open-air café concert of the Champs-Élysées, you go there some afternoon, and are ushered by a waiter through a narrow corridor of the adjoining restaurant, past little rooms, shining in copper pots and pans, and pungent with steaming sauces, through a pair of swinging doors well worn by hurrying waiters, and into a square room piled high with snow-white linen, pyramids of lump sugar, and rows of glittering silver. Half hidden in a corner among this spotless collection you discover a desk presided over by madame, who greets you pleasantly and produces for your inspection from beneath a litter... ## Chapters - [Chapter Five](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/how-paris-amuses-itself-46893/chapters/5/index.md) - [Chapter Nine](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/how-paris-amuses-itself-46893/chapters/9/index.md) - [Chapter Four](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/how-paris-amuses-itself-46893/chapters/4/index.md) - [Chapter Two](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/how-paris-amuses-itself-46893/chapters/2/index.md) - [Chapter Six](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/how-paris-amuses-itself-46893/chapters/6/index.md) - [Chapter Three](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/how-paris-amuses-itself-46893/chapters/3/index.md) - [Chapter Eight](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/how-paris-amuses-itself-46893/chapters/8/index.md) - [Chapter Seven](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/how-paris-amuses-itself-46893/chapters/7/index.md) - [Chapter One](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/how-paris-amuses-itself-46893/chapters/1/index.md)