Identifier: parisherselfagai02salaiala (find matches)
Title: Paris herself again in 1878-9
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Sala, George Augustus, 1828-1895
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Publisher: London : Remington and Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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hasable by all save the wealthy classes. If you did notmind giving a rouble for a bottle of Guinnesss Dublin stout, youmight lay in as many dozen as you chose ; otherwise you werefain to be content with quas or with Moscow piva. Taking the Avenue de 1Opera as a whole—palatial shops,enormous restaurant^ and cafes, electric lamps and all—andcomparing it with the adjacent and much-loved Bue de la Paix,I should qualify the last-named thoroughfare as a French street specially designed for the delight of English people, while the Avenue de 1'Opera is to most intents and purposes a street full of British things, meant to attract the admiration and patronage of French people. Cosmopolitan customers, of course, frequent the magnificent Cafe Restaurant Foy—kept by the historic Bignon THE AVENUE DE l'OPERA. 353 —and the Cafe Restaurant de Paris, which may be described as a phoenix risen from the ashes of the old Cafe de Paris, hard by Tortonis in the Boulevard ; but the shops, as shops, seem com-
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A PICKER-UP OF CIGAR-ENDS IN THE AVENUE DE L'OPERA. mendably ambitious to persuade Frenchmen to buy English goods. The British linoleum invites Parisian notice and support. A grand-British art-gallery offers to the inspection of Parisian VOL. If. 354 TARIS HERSELF AGAIN. amateurs a brilliant collection of pictures by the best known painters of the United Kingdom. Nor is America backward in announcing her adhesion to the cosmopolitan principles which seem dominant in the Avenue de l'Opera. The New York Herald has here its Paris offices; and the famous New York jeweller and goldsmith, Tiffany, has established himself in the Avenue to maintain the high repute which he won in gaining the Grand Prix in the Universal Exhibition. In fine, perhaps the most comprehensive thing to say about a thoroughfare to which I am now bidding farewell, and which these eyes may never look upon again, is that the Avenue de l'Opera is less a characteristically Parisian street than a permanent universal exposition of art, indu

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