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Updated: June 29, 2025
It is only to Paris Paris beautiful in its strange blending of smoky ruins and splendid, freshly-erected mansions that we can pardon the white glare of newly-opened streets, the Vandal desecration of antique landmarks, the universal sacrifice of old memories, historic associations and antique picturesqueness on that altar of modern progress whose high priest was Baron Haussmann and whose divinity was Napoleon III.
Germain, in the narrow streets which to this day have survived the sweeping influence of Baron Haussmann, once Prefect of the Seine, there are many houses which scarcely seem to have opened door or window since the great Revolution. One of these, to be precise, is situated in the Ruelle St.
He owed three thousand francs to the upholsterer who had furnished his apartment, and as he could not pay immediately he was in danger of being prosecuted. "Who is the upholsterer?" Caffie asked, while holding his left jaw with his right hand. "Jardine, Boulevard Haussmann." "I know him.
Leaving his comrades to watch the magistrate's operations, he sent M. Bourigeau to report the count's death at the district mayor's office, and then lighting a cigar he walked out of the house, and strolled leisurely up the Rue de Courcelles. The place appointed for his meeting with M. Fortunat was on the Boulevard Haussmann, almost opposite Binder's, the famous carriage builder.
Some of the creations of M. Haussmann in Paris may climb very nearly as high; but there is all the difference in the world between the impressiveness of a building which takes breath, as it were, some six or seven times, from storey to storey, and of one that erects itself to an equal height in three long-drawn pulsations.
In the stronger lighting of the Boulevard Haussmann her face seemed oddly childlike, oddly luminous with appeal. "Please, petit Monsieur Paul! I ask it of you, I wish it.... To please me?" "O Lord!" Lanyard sighed "how is one to resist when you plead so prettily to be compromised?"
Provisional like all the rest, changed every week at the pleasure of the intelligence office, which sends them there to give them practice before taking serious positions. They may have neither sponsors nor certificates; they may have just come from prison or elsewhere. Glanard, the great place-broker on Rue de la Paix, supplies Boulevard Haussmann.
"Mademoiselle Jeanne, who had not put down the miniature, turned it over, read what was on the back, grew deathly pale, and handed it to her lover. "'What does it say? said Dufilleul, stooping over it. "It said: 'From Monsieur le Baron D -to Mademoiselle T , Boulevard Haussmann. To be delivered on Thursday. "'You can see at once, Mademoiselle, that this is not my writing.
According to his mother's wishes, Frank had written to Anne that business was bringing him to Paris, and that he would give himself the pleasure of calling upon her some time within the following fortnight. In the stately old house, which she had taken on the Boulevard Haussmann, Anne awaited Frank's coming with more emotion than she acknowledged to herself.
"Mademoiselle Jeanne, who had not put down the miniature, turned it over, read what was on the back, grew deathly pale, and handed it to her lover. "'What does it say? said Dufilleul, stooping over it. "It said: 'From Monsieur le Baron D to Mademoiselle T , Boulevard Haussmann. To be delivered on Thursday. "'You can see at once, Mademoiselle, that this is not my writing.
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