"Latin Quarter" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of the Latin Quarter and Mont de Piete, found himself one summer on the Dean. One evening at the porch of Ye Hutte he met a lively group of painters and paintresses, just ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, December, 1885 • Various
... had been unconsciously holding between his fingers all this while, and on the plea of cashing a draft at a banker's left the two gentlemen together. He wandered absently into the Place de la Concorde, crossed the crowded bridge there, and plunged into the narrow streets of the Latin Quarter. Finding his way back after an hour or so to the other bank of the Seine, he seated himself on one of those little black iron chairs which seem to have let themselves down like spiders from the lime-trees in the ...
— The Queen of Sheba & My Cousin the Colonel • Thomas Bailey Aldrich
... with noble menn and gentlemen ... running at the ring with faire Turks and cowrsars, being in a maskerie after the Turkishe maner, and on foote casting of eggs into the wyndowes among the ladies full of sweete waters and damaske Poulders," or like the Latin Quarter students who frequent "La Morgue," went to view the body of a gentleman slain in a feud, laid out in state in his house—"to be seen of all men."[115] In the outlandish mixture of nations swarming at Venice, a student could spend ...
— English Travellers of the Renaissance • Clare Howard
... in the detective. "We'll go there. We can have something to eat sent in and—" he smiled indulgently at Tignol—"and something to drink. Hey, cocher!" he called to a passing cab, and a moment later the three men were rolling away to the Latin Quarter, with Coquenil's leather bag on the ...
— Through the Wall • Cleveland Moffett |
