Download or read book The Real Latin Quarter (Classic Reprint) written by Frank Berkeley Smith and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-27 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Real Latin Quarter "Cocher, drive to the rue Falguiere" - this in my best restaurant French. The man with the varnished hat shrugged his shoulders, and raised his eyebrows in doubt. He evidently had never heard of the rue Falguiere. Yes, rue Falguiere, the old rue des Fourneaux, I continued. Cabby's face broke out into a smile. "Ah, oui, oui, le Quartier Latin." And it was at the end of this crooked street, through a lane that led into a half court flanked by a row of studio buildings, and up one pair of dingy waxed steps, that I found a door bearing the name of the author of the following pages his visiting card impaled on a tack. He was in his shirtsleeves - the thermometer stood at 90 outside - working at his desk, surrounded by half-finished sketches and manuscript. 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."