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- Frontmatter
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- XXII (1857-58.) THE FRENCH DETECTIVE AND HIS SMART SUBORDINATE—AT THE PRINCESS ROYAL'S MARRIAGE—SOME POPULAR PENNY PUBLICATIONS—THE YATES AND THACKERAY SQUABBLE—A TALK WITH CHARLES READE—THE CHERBOURG FETES
- XXIII (1858.) AN EXPEDITION TO HOMBURG—EARLY SUCCESSES AND SUBSEQUENT DEFEAT—PHILOSOPHIC INDIFFERENCE—GARCIA THE GAMBLER—BOHEMIAN BILLETS-DOUX—A HYPOCHONDRIACAL HUMOURIST
- XXIV (1858-59.) THE PAPER DUTY AGITATION, AND THE REPEAL OF THE IMPOST—A CONVIVIAL CLUB AND SOME OF ITS MEMBERS—THE BOOZING CARPENTER AND POPULAR EDUCATOR—IN IRELAND AND SCOTLAND ON THE STUMP—A SALE AND WHAT SPRUNG FROM IT
- XXV (1859-63.) ON BOARD THE GREAT EASTERN DURING THE EXPLOSION—THE DROWNING OF INGRAM IN LAKE MICHIGAN—A BIRD OF ILL-OMEN ON BOSTON STUMP—“WELCOME ALEXANDRA!”—THE PRINCE OF WALES'S WEDDING AT WINDSOR
- XXVI (1863.) A SUSPICIOUS FIRE AT CAMPDEN HOUSE AND AN ACTION AGAINST THE “SUN” OFFICE—MY BROTHER FRANK'S EVENTFUL CAREER AS WAR CORRESPONDENT—HIS PRESUMED DEATH IN THE SOUDAN
- XXVII (1863-65.) THE SHAKSPEARE TERCENTENARY COMMITTEE AND MR. THACKERAY—REMINISCENCES OF SOME GUILDFORD-STREET GATHERINGS—THE DAVENPORT BROTHERS AND CHARLES READE—A CHANGE IN MY POSITION—T. W. ROBERTSON, NEEDY AND AFFLUENT
- XXVIII (1865.) FRENCH APARTMENTS—AT AUTEUIL—FANTASTIC FASHIONS—FÉTES IN THE ENVIRONS—JOURNALISTIC DUELS—A GARDEN PARTY
- XXIX (1865.) ODD WAYS OF GETTING A LIVING IN PARIS A QUARTER OF A CENTURY AGO
- XXX (1866.) NEW YEAR'S DAY IN PARIS—THE CLOSING AND OPENING OF TWO RHINE KURSAALE—A FASHIONABLE NORMANDY WATERING PLACE
- XXXI (1867-68.) EUROPEAN POTENTATES IN PARIS—ABSURD CONCESSIONS OF THE EXHIBITION COMMISSIONERS—OPENING CEREMONY—THE CZAR UNDER FIRE—PRIZE DAY AT THE PALAIS DE L'INDUSTRIE—SEIZED FOREIGN NEWSPAPERS
- XXXII (1868.) AT THE PREFECTURE OF POLICE—A NIGHT AMONG THE PARIS CHIFFONNIERS—TWO BARRIÈRE BALLS
- XXXIII (1868.) WITH THE COURT AT COMPIÉGNE—ARTIFICIAL EYES
- XXXIV (1868-69.) ON AND ABOUT THE BOULEVARDS—THE HOUR OF ABSINTHE—THE ECCENTRIC DUKE OF BRUNSWICK—A FINANCIAL AND A GASTRONOMIC BARON—HYMEN'S AMBASSADOR—THE MAUBREUIL SCANDAL
- XXXV (1868-69). IN BRITTANY—AT A BRETON PARDON—THE TRADE IN LOCKS—HORSE À LA MODE
- XXXVI (1868.) THE ITALIAN COLONY—ITINERANT MUSICIANS AND ARTISTS' MODELS—THE BAL DU VIEUX CHÊNE—GANGS OF PARIS THIEVES—HÔTELS GARNIS—THE CARRIÈRES D'AMÉRIQUE
- XXXVII (1869.) BOULEVARDIAN JOURNALISTS AND BOULEVARD REMINISCENCES—SOME PARIS ARTISTS
- XXXVIII (1869.) IN THE VINEYARDS OF THE MÉDOC—A BORDEAUX SPADASSIN
- XXXIX (1869.) A CONFLAGRATION AMONG THE BORDEAUX SHIPPING—LIGHTED PETROLEUM AFLOAT—THE WHITE WINES OF THE GIRONDE—ANOTHER BORDEAUX SPADASSIN—ST. ÉMILION, PÉRIGUEUX, AND LIMOGES—THE BURGUNDY VINEYARDS—A STATE BALL
- XL (1869-70.) THE PANTIN TRAGEDY—THE TRIAL AND CONVICTION OF TROPPMANN
- XLI (1870.) AT TROPPMANN's EXECUTION—ROCHEFORT AND “LA LANTERNE”
- XLII (1870 et seq.)
XXXVII - (1869.) BOULEVARDIAN JOURNALISTS AND BOULEVARD REMINISCENCES—SOME PARIS ARTISTS
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- XXII (1857-58.) THE FRENCH DETECTIVE AND HIS SMART SUBORDINATE—AT THE PRINCESS ROYAL'S MARRIAGE—SOME POPULAR PENNY PUBLICATIONS—THE YATES AND THACKERAY SQUABBLE—A TALK WITH CHARLES READE—THE CHERBOURG FETES
- XXIII (1858.) AN EXPEDITION TO HOMBURG—EARLY SUCCESSES AND SUBSEQUENT DEFEAT—PHILOSOPHIC INDIFFERENCE—GARCIA THE GAMBLER—BOHEMIAN BILLETS-DOUX—A HYPOCHONDRIACAL HUMOURIST
- XXIV (1858-59.) THE PAPER DUTY AGITATION, AND THE REPEAL OF THE IMPOST—A CONVIVIAL CLUB AND SOME OF ITS MEMBERS—THE BOOZING CARPENTER AND POPULAR EDUCATOR—IN IRELAND AND SCOTLAND ON THE STUMP—A SALE AND WHAT SPRUNG FROM IT
- XXV (1859-63.) ON BOARD THE GREAT EASTERN DURING THE EXPLOSION—THE DROWNING OF INGRAM IN LAKE MICHIGAN—A BIRD OF ILL-OMEN ON BOSTON STUMP—“WELCOME ALEXANDRA!”—THE PRINCE OF WALES'S WEDDING AT WINDSOR
- XXVI (1863.) A SUSPICIOUS FIRE AT CAMPDEN HOUSE AND AN ACTION AGAINST THE “SUN” OFFICE—MY BROTHER FRANK'S EVENTFUL CAREER AS WAR CORRESPONDENT—HIS PRESUMED DEATH IN THE SOUDAN
- XXVII (1863-65.) THE SHAKSPEARE TERCENTENARY COMMITTEE AND MR. THACKERAY—REMINISCENCES OF SOME GUILDFORD-STREET GATHERINGS—THE DAVENPORT BROTHERS AND CHARLES READE—A CHANGE IN MY POSITION—T. W. ROBERTSON, NEEDY AND AFFLUENT
- XXVIII (1865.) FRENCH APARTMENTS—AT AUTEUIL—FANTASTIC FASHIONS—FÉTES IN THE ENVIRONS—JOURNALISTIC DUELS—A GARDEN PARTY
- XXIX (1865.) ODD WAYS OF GETTING A LIVING IN PARIS A QUARTER OF A CENTURY AGO
- XXX (1866.) NEW YEAR'S DAY IN PARIS—THE CLOSING AND OPENING OF TWO RHINE KURSAALE—A FASHIONABLE NORMANDY WATERING PLACE
- XXXI (1867-68.) EUROPEAN POTENTATES IN PARIS—ABSURD CONCESSIONS OF THE EXHIBITION COMMISSIONERS—OPENING CEREMONY—THE CZAR UNDER FIRE—PRIZE DAY AT THE PALAIS DE L'INDUSTRIE—SEIZED FOREIGN NEWSPAPERS
- XXXII (1868.) AT THE PREFECTURE OF POLICE—A NIGHT AMONG THE PARIS CHIFFONNIERS—TWO BARRIÈRE BALLS
- XXXIII (1868.) WITH THE COURT AT COMPIÉGNE—ARTIFICIAL EYES
- XXXIV (1868-69.) ON AND ABOUT THE BOULEVARDS—THE HOUR OF ABSINTHE—THE ECCENTRIC DUKE OF BRUNSWICK—A FINANCIAL AND A GASTRONOMIC BARON—HYMEN'S AMBASSADOR—THE MAUBREUIL SCANDAL
- XXXV (1868-69). IN BRITTANY—AT A BRETON PARDON—THE TRADE IN LOCKS—HORSE À LA MODE
- XXXVI (1868.) THE ITALIAN COLONY—ITINERANT MUSICIANS AND ARTISTS' MODELS—THE BAL DU VIEUX CHÊNE—GANGS OF PARIS THIEVES—HÔTELS GARNIS—THE CARRIÈRES D'AMÉRIQUE
- XXXVII (1869.) BOULEVARDIAN JOURNALISTS AND BOULEVARD REMINISCENCES—SOME PARIS ARTISTS
- XXXVIII (1869.) IN THE VINEYARDS OF THE MÉDOC—A BORDEAUX SPADASSIN
- XXXIX (1869.) A CONFLAGRATION AMONG THE BORDEAUX SHIPPING—LIGHTED PETROLEUM AFLOAT—THE WHITE WINES OF THE GIRONDE—ANOTHER BORDEAUX SPADASSIN—ST. ÉMILION, PÉRIGUEUX, AND LIMOGES—THE BURGUNDY VINEYARDS—A STATE BALL
- XL (1869-70.) THE PANTIN TRAGEDY—THE TRIAL AND CONVICTION OF TROPPMANN
- XLI (1870.) AT TROPPMANN's EXECUTION—ROCHEFORT AND “LA LANTERNE”
- XLII (1870 et seq.)
Summary
My position in Paris as correspondent of the “Illustrated London News” brought me into occasional contact with several prominent French journalists, and as in these days very few of the boulevardian scribes thought it necessary to assert their patriotism by incessantly attacking perfidious Albion, the intercourse was generally of a cordial character.
The most remarkable French pressman of the time that I am writing of was certainly Emile de Girardin, who prided himself, and with some show of reason, on having a fresh idea every day, not necessarily a good one, but at least something novel and whimsical that should supply a subject of conversation in clubs, cafés, and salons. When I first saw Girardin he was about sixty years of age and in the prime of his talent and influence. With his clean shaven face and eyeglass, he was not unlike Mr Joseph Chamberlain, except that a napoleonic lock of hair invariably dangled over his forehead, and that he had a marked partiality for extravagant neckties and nut-brown overcoats. An illegitimate son of General Count Alexandre de Girardin, he had fought his way to the front by the sheer force of talent, and had acquired a handsome fortune; less, however, by newspaper enterprise than by stock exchange speculation, though in this his press connection had greatly assisted him.
To Girardin belongs the credit of having established a cheap daily press in France.
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- Glances Back Through Seventy YearsAutobiographical and Other Reminiscences, pp. 320 - 343Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1893