Seeing Paris: Part One: On the Boulevards (1920s)

Burton Holmes travelogue.

looking out over Paris square.
VS square and traffic
Avenue de l’Opera
Sidewalk Cafe de la Paix
Scenes on Boulevard; pedestrians
Porte St. Denis
Bastille Day ceremonies
soldiers marching
Parc Monceau
Cafe Life in Paris
Cafe de la Paix
VS people sitting in cafes
Au Caneton restaurant
caviar and pancakes (crepes)
Robinson: tables in tree
Couples dancing, including women dancing with women
Man kissing woman’s neck
Le Café du Dôme
Patrons seated outside in sidewalk cafe (Dome)
“Paris from a Motor”
Across the Pont Royal
VS driving POVs: Notre Dame cathedral, over bridge toward the Tuileries, along the Rue de Rivoli following bus, up the Champs Elysées, by the Petit Palais and Napoleon’s tomb, the Rue Royale and Madeleine, the Rue Castiglione and Place Vendome, towards the Opera, the Rue Lafitte and the Sacré Coeur,

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