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Do we, when the week's work of your humbler people is done, see the laughter in dancing eyes in the Rue Mouffetard or, in the revel of your Saturday night, do we see only the belladonna'd leer of the drabs in the Place Pigalle?
But unmistakably of the vintage of the Nineteen-Twenties was the avarice of the driver. Even then he grumbled profanely while Lanyard helped Athenais to climb in and took the place by her side. The rue Pigalle was as dark and still as any street in a deserted village.
This we learn from a letter written by her to her friend Gustave Papet, and dated Paris, January, 1840, wherein we read: At last I am installed in the Rue Pigalle, 16, only since the last two days, after having fumed, raged, stormed, and sworn at the upholsterers, locksmith, &c., &c. What a long, horrible, unbearable business it is to lodge one's self here!
At this period, Balzac's acquaintance with the grand dames of Paris was considerably diminished. Madame de Castries he seems to have broken with altogether. Madame Visconti, who lived a good deal at Versailles, he saw but seldom. In lieu of these, he regularly visited George Sand, who was at present settled in a small flat of the Rue Pigalle in Paris, and was there enjoying the society of Chopin.
He made a suave, swelling gesture with his hands and arms and heaved up his great bulk gracefully. "'Ow 'e can play! 'Ow 'e can play!" "He is Andy Gordon!" I exclaimed. "What is he? A weaver?" "Comment?" "A weaver? Makes cloth like this?" I held up the corner of the tablespread. "Corpo, no!" ejaculated the astonished Pigalle. "Handy ees violinist-a." From The Midland
So, then, once more, with a hitch to my tin box, I became a lonely lounger. I viewed the church of Saint Thomas, the public place named after Kleber, who was born here, some of the markets and a beer establishment. In the church of Saint Thomas I examined the monument to Marshal Saxe, by Pigalle.
It was adorned in 1763 with an equestrian statue of Louis XV., by Pigalle, elevated on a pedestal which was decorated at the corners by statues of the cardinal virtues. Mordant couplets, two of which we transcribe, affixed on the base, soon expressed the judgment of the Parisians: "Grotesque monument! Infâme piédestal! Les vertus sont
He was fortunately disengaged, and she at once obtained from him a proof of the compromising letter written by the Marquis de Valorsay to Madame Leon. She placed it carefully in her pocket, thanked the photographer, and then hurried back to the Rue Pigalle to wait for the hour appointed in Pascal's letter. Fortunately none of her unpleasant apprehensions were realized.
He had, moreover, hired stabling in the Rue Pigalle, only a few steps from the house, and he expected a coachman and a groom the following morning. "And all this will cost us less than the miserable vehicle we have been hiring by the year," observed Madame de Fondege, gravely. "Oh, I know what I say. I've counted the cost.
"He once said to me," interrupted La Palferine, "'My one affectation is the pretence that I make of living in the Rue Pigalle." "Well," resumed Desroches, "he was one of the combatants; and now for the other. You have heard more or less talk of one Claparon?" "Had hair like this!" cried Bixiou, ruffling his locks till they stood on end.
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