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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays, I. A Cambridge boyhood (search)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays, chapter 6 (search)
X. Literary Paris twenty years ago
I reached Paris, from London, on the morning of May 30, 1878, arriving just in time for admission to the Theatre des Folies Dramatiques, where the Voltaire centenary celebration was to be held that day, with Victor Hugo for the orator.
As I drove up, the surrounding streets were full of people going toward the theatre; while the other streets were so empty as to recall that fine passage in Landor's Imaginary conversations where Demosthenes describes the depopulation of all other spots in Athens except that where he is speaking to the people.
The neighborhood of the theatre was placarded with announcements stating that every seat was sold; and it was not until I had explained to a policeman that I was an American who had crossed from London expressly for this celebration, that he left his post and hunted up a speculator from whom I could buy seats.
They were twin seats, which I shared with a young Frenchman, who led me in through a crowd so gr
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays, Index. (search)