Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) VIE DE BOHÈME [Illustration: La Cydalise.] VIE DE BOHÈME A PATCH OF ROMANTIC PARIS BY ORLO WILLIAMS [Illustration: colophon, ARTI et VERITATI] RICHARD G. BADGER THE GORHAM PRESS BOSTON _First Published 1913_ PRINTED AT THE BALLANTYNE PRESS LONDON TO MY WIFE CONTENTS CHAP. PAGE I. LA VRAIE BOHÈME 1 II. A FRINGE OF HISTORY 21 III. LE MAL DU SIÈCLE 35 IV. PARISIAN SOCIETY 65 V. LES VIVEURS 87 VI. LA BOHÈME ROMANTIQUE 109 VII. THE SECOND "CÉNACLE" 126 VIII. LA BOHÈME GALANTE 158 IX. SCHAUNARD AND COMPANY 194 X. MURGER AND HIS FRIENDS 219 XI. AMUSEMENTS OF BOHEMIA 252 XII. THE PARIS OF BOHEMIA 282 INDEX 303 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS _To face page_ LA CYDALISE. _By Camille Rogier_ _Frontispiece_ THE SPIRIT OF ROMANTICISM 44 (From the cover of a Romantic periodical) BOUSINGOTS. _By Frances Trollope_ 56 (From "Paris and the Parisians in 1835") LES CHAMPS ELYSÉES. _By Eugène Lami_ 67 A VIVEUR. _By Gavarni_ 78 FASHIONABLES. _By Gavarni_ 86 PÉTRUS BOREL. _By Louis Boulanger_ 138 (After an etching by Célestus Nanteuil) CÉLESTIN NANTEUIL. _By Himself_ 142 A FESTIVITY IN THE IMPASSE DU DOYENNÉ 168 (From "Les Confessions" by Arsène Houssaye) GÉRARD DE NERVAL 190 A GRISETTE. _By Gavarni_ 216 A BAL MASQUÉ AT THE OPÉRA. _By Eugène Lami_ 274 THE GALOP INFERNAL. _By Gavarni_ 276 A GUINGETTE 278 THE RUE ST.-DENIS 294