The Connecticut labor press., 1919-12-27

l OIu DOuIeVaTuS so essentially PdflSlan.
 Facing the aggressive stores, which
 occupy a whole block, one can still
 see picturesque corner distinctly
 reminiscent of old Paris; the angle of the dark old Rue de Ia Lune. where
 still exists famous pastry shop, "A
 la Renommee de in Brioche," in which l for more than a century, Parisians 1 have eaten the famous cake. The l Gymnase theater a few steps farther 1 down, was built in the early part of
 the last century and is still one of
 the most fashionable theaters> of 1 Paris.
 Prom the famous Carrefour des ! Ecrases, situated at the point where ! the boulevard crosses at right angles 1 the Rue and FaubOurg Montmartre, 1 the Rue de Richelieu and the Rue DrOuOt, there extends a sort of neu- 1 tral zone-the Boulevard Montmartre which one might almost define as the vestibule to the Boulevard des Italiens. It was here, in the Passage des Panoramas, that, in 1917, the ex- pertinent of lighting Paris by gas was first attempted. The Rue de Richelfeu marks the beginning of the true boulevard, which privileged region spans the Place de rOpera to the Madeleine church. On the crowded sidewalks, rather Ob- structed by the terraces of >innumer- able cafes, one meets "all kinds and conditions of men'' in that most demo- cratic of all conglomerations-a that most banal-a Partisan crowd.
 Another Famed Thorouehfare.
 The Boulevard des Italiens was the center of the brilliant, scandalOus life of the late empire and early sos. There used to assemble at TOrtOni's at the MaisOn d'Or-now transformed into a post Office-at the Cafe de Paris, those French dandies who brought such laboriOus care to the imitation of the extravagances of their English models; at the corner of the Rue Laffitte was situated the Cafe Hardig, the meeting place of the agi- tators at the fall of the assignats and which is celebrated as having been the first Parisian cafe where luncheons were served "a Ia fourchette" that is, where meat was served. The Cafe Anglais on the opposite side of the boulevard was the most fashionable restaurant of the second empire. Ii was demolished recently, and Paris sighed at the disappearance of anoth- CT of its favorite haunts. The Pa. vilfOn de Hanovre, facing the Vaude- vile theater, now shelters the shop of a prosperous silversmith; but it is ,Sn-iro IC1 fo1 Lo Ionged to the duke of Richelieu, who had so runs the legend. built it with the product of the golden and silver Iaurels he obtained by hook or by crook during the HanOverian war Hence the nickname which has ever since remained attached to the beau tiful and luxurious building.
 The Boulevard des Capucines, which starts from the Vaudeville and spans the Place de POpera, is always ex- tremely animated with its numerous hotels, clubs and shops. It belongs in some sort to history, for it was from the garden of the Capucines (which has disappeared long since) that the first pistol shot which transformed the riot of 1948 into a regular revo- luton was fired.
 Processions and corteges of all kinds, both civil and military, peace ful, threatening or triumphant, have through the centuries passed down the boulevards, stamping history into | the very footway they followed But | surely the old avenues never wit | messed more solemn or symbOlical l scene than the parade of the allied | troops, which, on the 14th of July, | preceded by their glorious, tattered l banners, marched down the boule- wards toward the Place de la Re publique.