THE BOULEVAEDS. 



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every other 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 arC;, generally speaking, so very 

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



Fig. 46. 



Avenue Tictoria, near the Plotel 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 mu.ch mder 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 



