THE BOULEVARDS. 



121 



every ottier house is a restaurant^ a cafe^ or a theatre. 

 Before every one of these are groups of little tables_, at 

 which pleasure-seekers from all parts of the world are 

 seated laughing^ talking^ smoking,, and drinking as if no 

 such things as wars, revolutions, or financial panics ever 

 existed. 



The boulevards of Paris are, generally speaking, so very 

 much alike that to describe them in detail is needless. The 



Fig. 46. 



Avenue Tictoria, near tlie Hotel de Ville. 



illustrations will give a better idea of their actual appear- 

 ance than any written description. From house to house 

 they are usually, in the most frequented parts, over 100 feet 

 wide, occasionally reaching between 130 and 140 feet, 

 and even much wider than this in the outer boulevards, 

 which are sometimes large enough for half a dozen lines of 

 trees, in addition to very wide footways, and perhaps two 

 minor as well as a wide central road, as in the Avenue de 



