This is very quaint old book about taking a vacation to Paris, France. It tells about all the things to do and see The book was published in 1925 by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston & New York, The Riverside Press Cambridge. The book measures 4 ½ inches by 6 ¾ inches and contains xxvi, 438 pages. The blue cloth cover has an embossed, textured finish with a pictorial on the front in gilt. The title had probably been on the spine in gilt but has since rubbed off or faded. There are several cosmetic spots to the front board. The spine is faded. The cover is lightly soiled. The cover shows minor signs of wear to the edges, corners and to the top and bottom of the spine The spine is tight and the hinges are strong. The pages show no signs of rips or foxing. The upper right corner of some of the pages is slightly bumped. There are notes in pencil on the front end pages, on an index page, on a blank page in the rear of the book and the occasional pencil notes in the margins of the book. This does not affect the readability of the text in any way. Exceptions noted, the overall condition of this book is good.

Excerpt - Any Day in Paris - The Boulevards and their Neighbors:
This chapter is one that you may substitute for any of the others, if you are hurried or if they do not appeal to you, or with which you may supplement them as seems best to you. Everybody goes along the boulevards in Paris, not once, but many times. Some are satisfied with just what they can see as they pass wonderingly along. Others would like to know a little more about what they are seeing. This chapter is for those others. There is no need to take a day for following it. Read it and have it in mind as you go on your explorations of Paris.

But to give it sequence, order, let us start it at the Madeline, which marks the western boundary of the grands boulevards.

The boulevards are not what they used to be; but in this post-war world nothing is as it used to be, and I do not know that the Paris boulevards seem as different, by half, as many other places do. Everywhere in the western world, now, the persons most in evidence seem to be those whom a sudden and unprepared-for affluence has driven out of their accustomed course and into ways that they wot not of. The handful of humanity that has savoir-faire, that can give grace, elegance, distinction to what it does, has become hard to find in the hubbub of loud assertiveness, gaudy display, and reckless expenditure which characterizes most persons when they get more money than they have been educated to spend...
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