By Elliot Paul

Elliot Paul, an American journalist, first walked into rue de l. a. Huchette in the summertime of 1923. ‘There,’ he wrote, ‘I chanced on Paris.’ His biography of the road brings to existence a solid of charaters, from the stately M. de Malancourt to l’Hibou the tramp, from the culturally precocious Hyacinthe to a bevy of prostitutes. Their friendships and enmities, tradition and lifestyle are woven right into a tapestry as compelling as a singular. but because the probability of the second one international conflict grows and the political polarisation among correct and left intensifies, it endows their quiet, heroic lives with a sad poignancy. The final Time I observed Paris is without doubt one of the nice snap shots of an unforgettable urban.

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5. Ajout d’une dern. phrase : “Le Chéron en question est probablement Charles François (1724-1797), qui a fait un portrait à l’aqua43 additions et modifications Volume 1 relle de Devaux, reproduit par A. Consiglio (Devaux, Poésies diverses, Bari & Paris, 1977, p. ” Lettre 133, n. 1. Ajout d’une dern. phrase : “En mai 1748, il demandera à Élisabeth Ferrand de transmettre à Helvétius son ‘dévouement le plus tendre’ (Bibl. publ. et univ. de Genève, ms. 657, fo 38; Corpus Condillac [1714-1780], éd.

Lire “Le 14 janvier”. 19 errata Volume 1 ———, n. 3. Suppression de “d’Argenson”. ———, n. 6. Voir Additions. ———, Légende de la gravure (p. 62), “d’après le portrait par Garand”. Lire “d’après le portrait dû à Garand”. Lettre 40, n. 7, “1782”. Lire “1783”. ———, n. 8. Voir Additions. Lettre 42, p. 66, l. 2, “absentes”. Lire “obmises”. Lettre 43, l. 6, “ton heros Genie et”. Lire “Ton Heros1, genie? Et”. Le texte de la note 1 figure dans les Additions. Les notes 1, 2 et 3 deviennent les notes 2, 3 et 4.

164, col. 1, “unveröffentliche”. Lire “unveröffentlichte”. ———, n. 4, “(v. lettre 347)”. Lire “(v. lettre 509, note 4)”. Lettre 559, n. 3, “la bibliothèque ducale de Gotha”. Lire “la Forschungsund Landesbibliothek de Gotha”. Lettre 567, n. 3, “au bord de la banqueroute”. Lire “au bord de la faillite”. Lettre 569, n. 2, col. 2, l. 1, “confrontations militaires”. Lire “affrontements militaires”. ———, n. 4, “sans que soit indiqué”. Lire “sans que fût indiqué”. Lettre 580, en-tête de la lettre, “princesse”.

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