CHAPTER XXXIV

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MONSEIGNEUR AFFRE AND THE INSURRECTION OF JUNE.

The Courtyard of the Dragon--The National Workshops--The Insurrection of June--Monseigneur Affre Shot at the Barricade of the Faubourg St. Antoine.....247

## CHAPTER XXXV .

SOME OCCUPANTS OF MONTPARNASSE.

The Boulevard Montparnasse--The Cemetery--Father Loriquet--Hégésippe Moreau--Sainte-Beuve.....250

## CHAPTER XXXVI .

SPORTS AND DIVERSIONS.

Le “Sport”--Longchamps--Versailles Races--Fontainebleau--The Seine--Swimming Baths--The Art of Book-collecting.....254

## CHAPTER XXXVII .

FENCING SCHOOLS.

Fencing in France--A National Art--Some Extracts from the Writings of M. Legouvé, One of its Chief Exponents--The Old Style of Fencing and the New.....257

## CHAPTER XXXVIII .

PETTY TRADES.

Petty Trades--Their Origins--The Day-Banker--The Guardian Angel--The Old-Clothesman--The Claque--Its First Beginning and Development.....259

## CHAPTER XXXIX .

OBSOLETE PARIS SHOPS.

The Old Wooden Stalls of Forty Years Ago--The “Lucky Fork”--The Cobbler’ Shops--The Old Cafés.....265

## CHAPTER XL .

THE PARIS PRESS.

French Governments and the Press--The Press under Napoleon--Some Account of the Leading Paris Papers--The _Figaro_.....268

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