Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-11-12
I" QUARTER LATIN
ORE OF THE ORIGINAL SIGHTS OF PARIS
THE BULLIER.
Tragedies of the QUARTER Latin
Who Live in the QUARTER.
PARIS. October l6. 1881.

Paris would not be Paris without its
Quarter Latin, which in spite of progress
and changes still retains landmarks familiar
to gray-haired men, who never pass along
its streets or read the names of cafes and
brasseries without heart-throb of
emotion and a sigh of regret. Another
generation (they mentally exclaim) is now
occupied in studying and carousing, loving
and dreaming, and soon they in turn will
follow those behind US to make room for
others: All youth with its joys and follies,
it's extravagant ambitions and sacred faith,
Is boon We appreciate most when we feel
it can no longer be ours. So it is that Paris
ians and provincials who have dwelt in the
Quarter Latin, when acquiring profession
as an arm to be used in the battle of life,
have no sooner entered upon their respon-
sibilities than they look back with longing
regret on the days wherein they formed
band as admirable as they were daring,
when their conduct and words were as reck-
less as their love of Justice and hatred of op.
preston were intense. In their midst is the
fertile coil where spring up all generous i'm.
pulses, and no lofty sentiment, no grand
and humane ideas but what find an echo
in their youthful, ardent hearts. Students
represent
A CHARACTERISTIC FORCE, H
For each one contributes elements not yet
born in the child and almost extinct in the
man, and when this force is once aroused
it presents the terror of the rabble com.
bined with the moral energy of intelligence
and the presence of future rulers and
magistrates. An incident which has re.
Gently taken place in the QUARTER Latin
has attracted the attention of all Parisians,
and although the conduct of the students
may be publicly condemned, many sedate
Judge has privately remarked that in his
day the affair would have been more seri-
GUS. The annual concourse for the Internal
of the hospitals, or hospital boarders, was
finished, and the students had all met at
the Butler Hall. There quarrel took
place with dry goods clerk who had
mixed in the dance, and general battle
followed. The Gardes Republicans inter.
fered, the proprietor of the establishment
turned out the gas, and at 10 o'clock the
dancing hall was completely evacl-
ated; but the tumult. continued outside,
when the gardens de Ia paix appeared on
the scene, and some five of the students
were arrested and conducted to the look
up, where three of them were placed under
the charge of brigadier. The students
then protested. They formed band from
four to five hundred in number, and di-
rected their steps towards the Prefecture
of Police, crying out, Nos Internesi Nos
Internes r' The sentinel called the corps
de garde, who ranged themselves
IN ARMS
Before the door, and then the cries in.
creased. The officer Of peace then on duty
was SO happily inspired as to mount car.
riage and harangue the crowd in concili-
atory terms. He informed them that the
authorities were inquiring as to what the
students who had been arrested had been
guilty OF, and as soon as their declarations
and those of the agents had been received
by the Commissaire de Police, justice
should be rendered. M. Camescasse, the
Prefect of Police, happened to be at the
Prefecture, and he had the officer propose
to them to name a delegation whom he
would receive. Accepted Accepted !"
answered all voices. -Four students were
then delegated to speak with the Pre-
feet of Police, who, after having list
ened to their complaints, sent Commis-
saire to the post of the Rue Christine,
where their comrades had been conducted.
The delegates carried the news to the stu
dents, who Immediately dispersed. A Com
missaire de Police of the Quarter of the
Sarbopne saw that the students who had
been arrested were liberated at midnight.
And go calm was again restored to the
Quarter Latin. All persons who have
visited Paris must know about
THE BULLIER.
In fact, it is one of the original sights of
the French capital, and all men visit it
from inclination, whereas women often.
times find their way there through curios-
ity. Students delight in explaining that
it is no such affair as the Jardin Mabile,
where Vice stalks around in ia rich dress
with heart.sick smile on its face, but is
the rendezvous of youth and good humor,
and where the exuberance of youth can
find an outlet in comparatively innocent
manner. 1t is the habitual recreation hall
of all students who are fearful of iniuring
their health by too great application to
study, and who later form the average
citizen, while the midnight oil is burned
only by the future servants of the
country who become old men when
young, so that they may surpass their
contemporaries. 1t is not over such
an entrance as the door leading to the
Bullier that would be read the words
of Dante " "Lasciote ogni speranSa voi
ch'entrate," but, as more appropriate, the
expression " Leave all restraint behind ;"
and youth, obedient to the word, throws
aside its straight jacket and indulges in
such ambles and antics as make the rheu.
matte groan to look ut. No wonder, then,
that under such state of excitement the
decorous student should run some of the
activity of his legs to his fists and create
occupation for the only too suspicious gems
darmes. OF course there are etudiantS and
etudiantes, but the grisette, the
PRETTY, TENDER GRIsETTE,
Who has been rendered famous by the
poet and romancist, no longer exists; she
is said to have crossed the Seine, and now
rides in her carriage amid sable furs, while
her glances rest only on the rich
princes of the boulevard. This genera
tion is too prosaic, too matter of fact for
the tender romance of spring time
beneath the poplars of the Jardin du Lux
embcurg. The etudiante of the pres-
ent day is the students model, or a
sewing girl who does not find constant
employment, and is happy to dance away
the weary hours without singing in the
winter time, ike the Cigaie, who, after
singing all summer, is told to
dance in the cold wind. She is
uninteresting and too masculine in
appearance and department to excite ten
der sentiment in the breast of youth, but
then she dances at the Butler and renders
recreation hours enjoyable. The charming
author, Henry Murger, in his beautiful
work, La vie de Boheme," has concen-
trated in one plot the incidents and senti-
ment and all romance belonging to life in
the Quarter Latin. We therein sec the
tableau of
STRUGGLING GENIUS
Burning his furniture to frighten remorse-
less winter from his hearthstone, and with
whole bag of wit and good nature empty