The Quartier Latin

Le Quartier latin et ses entours constituent à eux seuls, au cœur historique de Paris, une cité sans pareille, avec ses beautés de pierre et ses beautés vivantes. En spectateur subtil, André Arnold-Peltier nous donne à voir cette alchimie savante entre hier et aujourd'hui, avec deçà, delà, comme en écho, les textes de Vassili Karist.

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Like a dry brook, its cobblestone bed zigzagging past quaint shops and cafés, the rue Vaugirard finds its way through the heart of the Latin Quarter.It is only one in a score of other busy little streets that intersect the Quartier Latin; but as I live on the rue Vaugirard, or rather just beside it, up an alley and in the corner of a picturesque old courtyard leading to the “Lavoir Gabriel,” a somewhat angelic name for a huge, barn 12 shaved, dignified personage has passed sentence on you, and you pay according to whatever he thinks you cannot afford. I knew a fellow once who ordered a peach in winter at one of these smart taverns, and was obliged to wire home for money the next day.In the Quartier Latin the price is always such an important factor that it is marked plainly, and often the garçon will remind you of the cost of the dish you select in case you have not read aright, for in this true Bohemia one's daily fortune is the one necessity so often lacking that any error in regard to its expenditure is a serious matter.