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The real Latin quarter (1901)

Smith, Frank Berkeley, 1869- · New York, Funk & Wagnalls Co. · leaf 164

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men inwhite lace caps, and gray-haired old men,many in straight-brimmed high hats of amode of twenty years past. Here they sitand listen to the music under the coolshadow of the trees, whose rich foliageforms an arbor overhead—a roof of greenleaves, through which the sunbeams streamand in which the… … y chair is taken within hearing distance ofthe band. When these musicians of thearmy of France arrive, marching in twosfrom their barracks to the stand, it is al-ways the signal for that genuine enthusi-asm among the waiting crowd which onesees between the French and their soldiers. If you chance…

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