St. Roch
By Augustus J. C. Hare
[Footnote: From "Walks in Paris." By arrangement with the publisher, David
McKay. Copyright, 1880.]
Englishmen are often specially imprest with Paris as a city of contrasts,
because one side of the principal line of hotels frequented by our
countrymen looks down upon the broad, luxurious Rue de Rivoli, all modern
gaiety and radiance, while the other side of their courtyards open upon
the busy working Rue St. Honore, lined by the tall, many-windowed houses
which have witnessed so many revolutions. They have all the
picturesqueness of innumerable balconies, high, slated roofs, with dormer
windows, window-boxes full of carnations and bright with crimson flowers
through the summer, and they overlook an ever-changing crowd, in great
part composed of men in blouses and women in white aprons and caps.
Ever since the fourteenth century the Rue St. Honore has been one of the
busiest streets in Paris. It was the gate leading into this street which
was attacked by Jeanne d'Arc in 1429. It was the fact that the Cardinal de
Bourbon and the Due de Guise had been seen walking together at the Porte
St.
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