Historic Paris Classic Reprint

Excerpt from Historic Paris To my readers I would say peruse what I have written, but use your own eyes, your own keen observation for learning much more than could be noted here. Look into every courtyard in the ancient quarters, look atten tively at every dwelling along the old winding streets, and fail not to look up to their roofs. The roofs are never alike. They are strikingly picturesque. Old world builders did not work mechanically, did not raise streets in machine-like style, each structure exactly like its neighbour, one street barely distinguishable from the street running parallel or crossing it, according to the habit of toz-day. The builders of [as jours d'antan loved their craft; every single house gave scope for some artistic trait. The roofs offered a fine field for architec tural ingenuity: wonderfully planned windows, chim neys, balconies, gables are to be seen on the roofs often in most unexpected corners, in every part of the Vieux Paris. Look up - I cannot urge this too strongly. And within every old hotel - the French term for private house or mansion - examine each staircase. In the erection of a staircase the architect of past ages found grand scope for graceful lines, and exquisite workman ship. Thus walks even through the dimmest corners of la Ville Lumiere will be for lovers of old-time vestiges a joy for ever. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.