The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1895-03-07
LAIN QUARTER IN PARIS.
A Notorious Section of the Gay Capital
Doomed to Disappearance.

Nobody save the thieves, beggars
and the dramshop keepers expressed
any sorrow when in the early years
of her majesty's reign the greater
part of the old and infamous st.
Giles was demolished, and with
equanimity did respectable New
York witness the introduction of
light and sanitation into the wretch
ed slum known as the Five Points,
described 50 wildly in the "Ameri-
can Notes" of Charles Dickens.
There is scarcely a ghetto left in any
city of Italy, and no voice of pro-
test was audible in the Italian press
when the old quarter at Florence was
torn down some two years ago. Still
| would there seem to exist among the
studious youth of Paris feeling of
genuine regret to learn that the old
Latin Quarter, which was almost
pulled to pieces by Baron Hauss-
mann under the second empire. is
doomed structurally and at no dis.
tAnt date to total disappearance.
Long since the Rue St. jacques
was modernized, widened and pro-
longed from the Petit Point to the
Rue Suffot, while the Rue Ecole,
Medicine has likewise been prolong
ed to the Boulevard st. German.
And now has come the turn of the
Place Maubert, the narrow streets
clustering about which interesting
relic of old Paris are to be cleared
away by the municipality. The Rue
st. SEVERN DIES Anglais is in particu.
lar to give place to brand new ave.
nue. op boulevard. Three cabarets,
our Paris correspondent toM us
few days since, are to vanish. These
are the establishments known by the
signs of Pere Lunette, the Senat and
the Chateau Rouge This first is
literary rendezvous. Senat has a
somewhat doubtful reputation as the
favorite resort of ragpickers, cabo-
tins and the STRIPPING candidates for
the bench of the accused at the as.
size court, Int the Chateau Rouge,
not to be COMPOUNDED with the ele.
gantly dissipated moulin Rouge in
the Champs Elysees, has long enjoy.
ed genuine celebrity as a typical fea-
ture of the QUARTER Latin, scholas.
tically treated, and as the happy
hunting ground of the male and fe.
male students of the left bank of the
Seine.
One famous, or rather infamous,
lnhabitant of the Quarter Latin,
where he also met death, was Jean
Paul Marat, the evil minded Swiss,
who had been splendidly educated
at home by his father, who was of
Sandman extraction. But it would
not seem that Jean Paul was ever a
student of the QUARTER Latin. The
wretch lived in Rue Ecole de Medi
cine, and on the 18th of July, 1898,
he was stabbed to death in his bath
by the modern Judith, the heroic
Charlotte Corday. Under the consul
late and the first empire the young
gentlemen of the student region
were fain TO keep, politically speak
ing, extremely quiet, since France
was ruled by Il person called Napo-
leon Bonaparte, who, like Oliver
Cromwell, "stood no nonsense.
Still, always patriotic, generous and
high spirited, the students forgot in
1914, when Paris was menaced by
the allied armies, how heavily the
imperial regime had weighed on
them, and the members of the facul-
ties of law and medicine, making
common cause with the pupils of
the Polytechnic school, organized a
strong force of infantry, cavalry and
artillery and fought most valiantIy |
at the defense of Clarendon and the |
Barrier du Trone. Comparative tran
quillity was enforced in the Latin
quarter during the restoration, but |
the studious youths, together with |
tho cadets of the Polytechnic, burst |
out again in a furious spasm of re- |,
publicanism in July, 1880.
They were tolerably quiet during
the reign of Louis Philippe, but the
epoch was halcyon one for them,
so far as extreme sportiveness and
unabridged gayety were concerned.
Those were the roaring times of the
Chaumiere, % noted cabaret, whittier
the students and studentesses re-
paired in order to dance the cancan,
the tulipe orageuse and the Robert
Macaire, exercitations long since
prohibited in Paris by the police,
although pale and limp limitations of
them are occasionally visible in Eng
land. Garvani loaned his matchless
pencil to the task of delineating the
habits and manners of the students
and the engaging tricks and manner
of their female friends, the grisettes,
the last class which may be said
to have entirely vanished from the
Rive Gauche.-London Telegraph