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The Rue Barrée

There is one street which changes place every day and is never without commerce; it multiplies itself quite often in different parts of town; upon it no vehicles pass, and quiet descends or, if you prefer, ascends from its pavement: this is the street which has traffic cut off from it while being repaired, the rue barrée (barred).

You may think that the merchants which seem to spring up from below over night, with their little tables and their varied merchandise, are here accidentally. No, indeed. Street peddlers they may be, but they are not here today and there tomorrow by any sort of guesswork; they have their own newspaper which, among general information and advertisements of value to them, gives them the official list with dates of the “rues barrées.” It does more than this; it gives the dates of all the local fairs and fêtes in the provinces, so that the peddler who has his cart or car can be on the move and be certain just when he will find a crowd assembled in the towns he passes through.

As for the advertisements in this newspaper, the addresses are mostly in the rue du Temple district of Paris, where are to be found at wholesale the thousand and one articles which appear upon the sidewalk merchants’ tables and in their suitcases. But, bear it in mind, all who do business regularly have their licences in order and pay their taxes circumspectly; this is no gypsy enterprise, open-air though it be.

Quotes About Paris

  • I love the night passionately. I love it as I love my country, or my mistress, with an instinctive, deep, and unshakeable love. I love it with all my senses: I love to see it, I love to breathe it in, I love to open my ears to its silence, I love my whole body to be caressed by its blackness. Skylarks sing in the sunshine, the blue sky, the warm air, in the fresh morning light. The owl flies by night, a dark shadow passing through the darkness; he hoots his sinister, quivering hoot, as though he delights in the intoxicating black immensity of space.

Paris Facts

  • The top Paris attractions are Disneyland Paris (15 million visitors each year), Notre Dame Cathedral (13.6), the Sacre Coeur (10,5), the Louvre Museum (9), the Eiffel Tower (6.180), Versailles Palace (6), Centre Pompidou (5) and the Cite des Sciences (3).

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