Starting in the Quartier Latin of the late 1830s, these recollections wander through artists’ lodging houses, studios, theatres and salons, among caricaturists like Dantan and singers like Malibran. The narrator moves on to the revolution of 1848, the rise of Louis Napoleon and the society of the Second Empire, telling every story as anecdote and table talk.
A lively, gossipy companion for anyone who loves nineteenth-century Paris and its personalities. Download the free EPUB.