Bohemians of the Latin Quarter. Henri Murger

Bohemians of the Latin Quarter - Henri Murger


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       Henri Murger

      Bohemians of the Latin Quarter

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664126252

       PREFACE

       CHAPTER I

       HOW THE BOHEMIAN CLUB WAS FORMED

       CHAPTER II

       A GOOD ANGEL

       CHAPTER III

       LENTEN LOVES

       CHAPTER IV

       ALI RODOLPHE; OR, THE TURK PERFORCE

       CHAPTER V

       THE CARLOVINGIAN COIN

       CHAPTER VI

       MADEMOISELLE MUSETTE

       CHAPTER VII

       THE BILLOWS OF PACTOLUS

       CHAPTER VIII

       THE COST OF A FIVE FRANC PIECE

       CHAPTER IX

       THE WHITE VIOLETS

       CHAPTER X

       THE CAPE OF STORMS

       CHAPTER XI

       A BOHEMIAN CAFE

       CHAPTER XII

       A BOHEMIAN "AT HOME"

       CHAPTER XIII

       THE HOUSE WARMING

       CHAPTER XIV

       MADEMOISELLE MIMI

       CHAPTER XV

       Donec Gratus

       CHAPTER XVI

       The Passage of the Red Sea

       CHAPTER XVII

       The Toilette of the Graces

       CHAPTER XVIII

       Francine's Muff

       CHAPTER XIX

       Musette's Fancies

       CHAPTER XX

       Mimi In Fine Feather

       CHAPTER XXI

       Romeo and Juliet

       CHAPTER XXII

       Epilogue To The Loves Of Rodolphe And Mademoiselle Mimi

       CHAPTER XXIII

       YOUTH IS FLEETING

       Table of Contents

      The Bohemians of whom it is a question in this book have no connection with the Bohemians whom melodramatists have rendered synonymous with robbers and assassins. Neither are they recruited from among the dancing-bear leaders, sword swallowers, gilt watch-guard vendors, street lottery keepers and a thousand other vague and mysterious professionals whose main business is to have no business at all, and who are always ready to turn their hands to anything except good.

      The class of Bohemians referred to in this book are not a race of today, they have existed in all climes and ages, and can claim an illustrious descent. In ancient Greece, to go no farther back in this genealogy, there existed a celebrated Bohemian, who lived from hand to mouth round the fertile country of Ionia, eating the bread of charity, and halting in the evening to tune beside some hospitable hearth the harmonious lyre that had sung the loves of Helen and the fall of Troy. Descending the steps of time modern Bohemia


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