Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-12-17

81. GILES ind Five Points Gone aud fArh
Latin Quarter rast Going.

81. Giles and Five Points Gone aud fhrn
Latin Quarter rast Going.
Nobody save tho thieves, the beggars
and the dramshop keepers expressed any
sorrow when In the early ycars OF her maj.
esty's reign tho greater part OF tho Gu
and infamous st. Giles was demolished,
and with equal sluaninity did respectable
New York witness the Introduction OF
light and sanitation into the wretohod
elum known as the Five Points, described
30 WILDLY In tho american Notes OF
Charles Dickens.
There ia scarcely q ghetto left In any
city Of Italy, and no voice OF protest was
audible In the italian press when the old
qunrtor a. Florence was torn down some
two years ago, stlll would there seem to
exist among the studious youth oil Paris
feeling Of genuine regret to learn that the
old Latin quarter, which was almost pull
ed TO pieces by Baron Hauxsman under
tho second empire, is doomed struoturally
and Mt no distant date TO total disappear
Anee Long since the Rue 81 Jacques
was modcrnized, wldcned and prolonged
from the Petit Pont TO zoe Rue Suhiot,
while the Rue Ecole dc Medicine has Ike
wise been prolonged to tho boulevard ST.
Gorinain.
Alla hOm mas NUlNt AIN YUM VI viz a saw
Mnubert, the narrow streets clustering
about which interesting relic Of old Paris
are to be cleared away by tho municlpali-
~. The Rue st. soyorin des Anglais is
In particular to give place to n brand new
avenue or bouoyard. Thrco cHbarets,
our Paris correspondent told us q few days
since, are to vanish. These arc tho estab-
lishmonts known by the signs OF the Perc
Lunette, the Senat and the Chateau
Rouge.
The first is literary rendezvous, cafe
ohantant and picture gallery. The Senn5
has somewhat doubtful reputation as
tho favorito resort OF ragpickers cabotins
and STRIPPING candidates for the bench Of
the accused at tho assize court, but tho
Chateau Rouee-nOt TO bo confoundod
with tho elegantly dissipatod Moulin
Rouge In the Champs Elysces-has long
enjoyed genuine celebrity as a typical fca'
turc Of the Quarter Latin enthusiastically
treated and as the happy hunting ground
OF the male and female students OF the
left bank of the Seine.
ono famous, or rather infamous, In
hnbitant Of the QUARTER Latin, where no
also met his death, was Jean Paul Marnt,
tho evil minded Swiss, who had been
splendldly educated ut homo by his father,
who was OF Sandman extraction. But 10
would not seem that Jean Paul was ever
q student of Tho Quarter Latin. Tho
wretch lived In the Rue Ecole de Medi-
cine, and on tho l3th Of July, 1898, no
was stabbed to death in his bath by the
modern Judith, tho heroic Charlotte Cor
dry.
Under the consulate and the FIRST empire
the young gentlemen OF tho student region
were fain to Keep, politically speaking, cx-
trcmely quiet, since Franco was ruled by
u person called Napoleon Bonapartc, who,
ike Oliver Cromwell, "stuod no non
sense" Still, always patriotic, generous
and high spirited, the otudinnts forgot in
1914 when Paris was monnced 10y the nj.
lied armies, how heavily the imperial
regime hud weighed on them, and tho
members OF the faculties OF law and mcdi'
elmo, making common cause with the pu-
pills Of the polytechnic school, organized q
strong force Of infantry cavalry and ar
tillcry and fought most yalluntly at tho
defense of Charonton and the Barriere du
Trone Comparative tranquility was on
forced In tho Latin quarter during the
restoration, but the studlous youths, to-
gothcr with the cadets OF tho polytechnic,
burst out again in a furious spasm Of re-
pubioanism in July, 1880.
They were tolorahly quiet during the
rcign OF Louis Philippe, but tho epoch
was u hnlcyon one for them so far as OK.
IRENE sportivenoss and unbrldled gayoty
were concerned. Those were tho roaring
times OF tho Chaumiore, noted cabaret,
whitherthi students and studontcsses re-
paired in order TO dance tho cancan, tho
tulipo nrnpeuse and the Robert Mncarc,
exercitatlons long since prohibited in Par
IS by tho police, although pale and limp
limitations OF them arc occasionally visible
in England Gayarni lent his matchless
pencil to the task OF deliuoNting tho habits
OF tho students and tho engaging tricks
and manners Of their female friends, tho
grisettos, the last class which may DO said
to have entirely vanished from tho Rive
Gauche. London Telegraph.