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"Montmartre" Quotes from Famous Books

... replied the man of science, as if he were retracing instructions for a voyage to the North Pole. "I will go through the Luxembourg, the Rue de Seine, the Pont des Arts, the Louvre, the Rue du Coq, the Rue Croix-des-Petits-Champs, the Rue des Fosses-Montmartre. It is the shortest route to ...

— A Street Of Paris And Its Inhabitant • Honore De Balzac

... the Foreign Legion, and they put me for a starter In the trenches of the Argonne with the Boche a step away; And the partner on my right hand was an 'apache' from Montmartre; On my left there was a millionaire from Pittsburg, U. S. A. (Poor fellow! They collected him in ...

— Rhymes of a Red Cross Man • Robert W. Service

... into silence, seemed to be watching the gay night streets of the Montmartre district—the cafes, the music halls, the sidewalk shows, the throngs of people every man and woman of them with his or her own individual variation upon the fascinating, covertly terrible face of the Paris mob. "What ...

— Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise • David Graham Phillips

... things, I am going to take Cuvier's crack case of the 'Possum of Montmartre as an illustration of ...

— The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 1 • Leonard Huxley

... turn round. He would take her to Paris. She would have the unimagined time of her life. They dreamed dreams of the Rue de la Paix—he had five hundred pounds laid by, which he had ear-marked for an orgy of shopping in that Temptation Avenue of a thoroughfare; of Montmartre, the citadel of delectable wickedness and laughter; of funny little restaurants in dark streets where you are delighted to pay twenty francs for a mussel, so exquisitely is it cooked; of dainty and crazy ...

— The Rough Road • William John Locke

Words linked to "Montmartre" : locality, neighborhood, neighbourhood, vicinity, neck of the woods, Paris, French capital, City of Light, capital of France