Vie de Bohème: A Patch of Romantic Paris

"The city was relatively very small, or at least its activity was restricted within certain limits that were seldom passed. The plaster elephant in which Gavroche found shelter...

Gérard threw in his lot with the _cénacle_, but, though he even wrote some revolutionary poems in 1830, for which he was imprisoned in Sainte Pélagie, he was never quite at ease...

Bohemia was not to be baulked a second time. The elements were present, and all that remained to do was for somebody to give them a slight push, such as Lucretius gave to his at...

For all its light-hearted absurdities La Childebert was not Bohemia, for its existence belonged rather to that of irresponsible students than of artists. I only mention it by wa...

The science of practical joking was sedulously cultivated by Roger and his friends, who rejoiced to bring off successful "mystifications." One of Roger's best was played upon Du...

The effect of this change upon Bohemia is not difficult to imagine. _La vie de Bohème_ implies youth, so that its generations change as rapidly as those of a university. The gen...

"Je veux que la débauche en délire et rugissante nous emporte, dans son char à quatre chevaux, par delà les bornes du monde, pour nous verser sur des plages inconnues! Que les â...

To disentangle the Bohemian contingent from its accompaniment of press and bustle is my aim in this book, which was suggested, I may frankly say, by some meditations on a second...

Nevertheless, in the eyes of Bohemia, the glory of the opera paled entirely before that of the drama. There was not one Bohemian with any literary talent who did not try to writ...

So sang of her Houssaye, whose souvenirs of Bohemia at the magic age of _vingt ans_ are deeply tinged with amorous memories. In fact, _la Bohème galante_, as its name implies, w...

If there is one reason for which the growth of newspapers during the last century may be looked at askance, it is the journalist's persistency in perpetuating phrases. Phrases a...

Letters of this doleful nature do not throw a very gay light upon the Bohemian market-place, where there was high competition for a small custom and prices ruled low. They conta...

Women entered Bohemia as guests rather than as inhabitants, and to the fair visitors conformity to fashion was anything but a trifle. To deck themselves fittingly was their cons...

Murger's "Scènes de la Vie de Bohème" is a book which has now lived for nearly seventy years and does not seem likely as yet to pass into the lumber-room. At the same time, it i...

The Bohemia described by Murger certainly corresponded in one respect with the general conception of Bohemianism to-day in that it was devoid of any material splendour. Neither...

"Paris was not then what it is to-day, a hurly-burly, a Babel inhabited by fools and futilities, with little delicacy as to how they kill time. At that time _tout Paris_ was com...

The Bohemia of artistic tradition began in what Théophile Gautier named the "second _cénacle_." The first _cénacle_, as all the world knows, was that of Victor Hugo, Sainte-Beuv...

Rastignac is one of the most wonderful characters created by Balzac's penetrating pessimism; that he had a special place in his creator's heart is proved, I think, by his freque...

"In the wake of the freelances of the pen the _Bohemians_ abounded, affecting the profoundest disdain for all that the bourgeois call 'rules of conduct,' posing as successors to...

Café Anglais, 91, 96, 259, 260 Hardy, 96, 259, 260 Momus, 198, 204, 246, 248, 265-268 de l'Odéon, 261 d'Orsay, 181 de Paris, 79, 86, 87, 91, 169, 259, 260 Riche, 259, 260 Torton...