endezvous of actors in search of an
engagement -- Frederick Lemaitre on the eve of appearing in a new
part -- The Legitimists begin to leave their seclusion and to
mingle with the bourgeoisie -- Alexandre Dumas and Scribe -- The
latter's fertility as a playwright -- The National Guards go
shooting, in uniform and in companies, on the Plaine Saint-Denis
-- Vidocq's private inquiry office in the Rue Vivienne -- No
river-side resorts -- The plaster elephant on the Place de la
Bastille -- The sentimental romances of Loisa Puget -- The songs
of the working classes -- Cheap bread and wine -- How they
enjoyed themselves on Sundays and holidays -- Theophile Gautier's
pony-carriage -- The hatred of the bourgeoisie -- Nestor
Roqueplan's expression of it -- Gavarni's -- M. Thiers' sister
keeps a restaurant at the corner of the Rue Drouot -- When he is
in power, the members of the Opposition go and dine there, and
publish facetious accounts of the entertainment -- All
appearances to the contrary, people like Guizot better than
Thiers -- But few entries for the race for wealth in those days
-- The Rothschilds still live in the Rue Lafitte -- Favourite
lounges -- The Boulevards, the Rue Le Peletier, and the Passage
de l'Opera -- The Opera -- The Rue Le Peletier and its
attractions -- The Restaurant of Paolo Broggi -- The Estaminet du
Divan -- Literary waiters and Boniface -- Major Fraser -- The
mystery surrounding his origin -- Another mysterious personage --
The Passage de l'Opera is invaded by the stockjobbers, and loses
its prestige as a promenade -- Bernard Latte's, the publisher of
Donizetti's operas, becomes deserted -- Tortoni's -- Louis-Blanc
-- His scruples as an editor -- A few words about duelling -- Two
tragic meetings -- Lola Montes -- Her adventurous career -- A
celebrated trial -- My first meeting with Gustave Flaubert, the
author of "Madame Bovary" and "Salambo" -- Emile de Girardin --
His opinion of duelling -- My decision with regard to it -- The
original of "La Dame aux Camelias" -- Her parentage -- Alexandre
Dumas gives the diagnosis of her character in connection with his
son's play -- L'Homme au Camellia -- M. Lautour-Mezerai, the
inventor of children's periodical literature in France -- Auguste
Lireux -- He takes the management of the