A WANDERER IN PARIS

OTHER WORKS BY E. V. LUCAS

Mr. Ingleside
Over Bemerton's
Listener's Lure
London Lavender
One Day and Another
Fireside and Sunshine
Character and Comedy
Old Lamps for New
The Hambledon Men
The Open Road
The Friendly Town
Her Infinite Variety
Good Company
The Gentlest Art
The Second Post
A Little of Everything
A Swan and Her Friends
A Wanderer in Florence
A Wanderer in London
A Wanderer in Holland
The British School
Highways and Byways in Sussex
Anne's Terrible Good Nature
The Slowcoach
Sir Pulteney
The Life of Charles Lamb
      and
The Pocket Edition of the Works of Charles
  Lamb: I. Miscellaneous Prose; II. Elia;
  III. Children's Books; IV. Poems and
  Plays; V. and VI. Letters

HÔTEL DE SENS
THE RUE DE L'HÔTEL DE VILLE

A WANDERER IN
PARIS

BY

E. V. LUCAS

WITH SIXTEEN ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR BY

WALTER DEXTER

AND THIRTY-TWO REPRODUCTIONS FROM WORKS OF ART

"I'll go and chat with Paris"

—Romeo and Juliet

TENTH EDITION

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PREFACE

Although the reader will quickly make the discovery for himself, I should like here to emphasise the fact that this is a book about Paris and the Parisians written wholly from the outside, and containing only so much of that city and its citizens as a foreigner who has no French friends may observe on holiday visits.

I express elsewhere my indebtedness to a few French authors. I have also been greatly assisted in a variety of ways, but especially in the study of the older Paris streets, by my friend Mr. Frank Holford.

E. V. L.

NOTE

Since this new edition was prepared for the press the devastating theft of Leonardo da Vinci's "Monna Lisa" was perpetrated. Pages 81-87 therefore—describing that picture as one of the chief treasures of the Louvre—must change their tense to the past.

E. V. L.

CONTENTS