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...closing of that institution, all of which took place in consequence of the students' strike (TIME, Apr. 6), a nationwide students' strike was called. It was limited in the Provinces to expressions of sympathy, but, in the French metropolis, practically all the students in the Quartier Latin were enjoying the rest of a quiet strike. Upward of 10,000 of them paraded the streets as an orderly protest against the Government...
Dense crowds of students patrolled the streets of the Latin Quartier, traffic was held up. Here and there, a few venturesome voices sang the Internationale, which was instantly drowned in roars of the Marseillaise. All doors were picketed by groups of students who had wisely provided themselves with food and wine. Shouts of "Conspuez Herriot!" (literally, "Spit upon Herriot!"), "A has Georges Scelle!'' "Vive le roil" "A has la Republique!" were frequently heard. Police and the Garde Republicaine were called out, attempted to restore order...
...same name, the massive square Odeon looms up across the intersecting Rue de Vaugirard. Along the near side runs a colonnade under which the booksellers still have their stalls as they used to long ago when the Odeon was called the Theatre de la Nation. Here in the Quartier Latin is the Paris which lives in intimate acquaintance with the past. And in the Odeon, the fertile mind and the strong voice of M. Gémier resurrects that past in a spirit that is psychologically human...
Thus fades the student magnificent; but only to change his abode. Stepping with seven league boots, the roistering scholar has set up a tidy little bohemian inferno of his own in the sacred precincts of Back Bay. The Quartier Latin in the flood days of vin rouge never dreamed of such boisterous revelry, nor of such cheerful flouting of conventionality as nightly reigns upon the banks of the Charles; if one may believe what he reads. But Fate is cruel, and already the prying eye of the reformer is looking askance at these nocturnal festivities. The end cannot...
Every year a new Maid of Orleans is elected from les damoiselles de la rive gauche, and she is the figurehead of the Saint Germain Fair. About her gather the multitudes of Paris, and in the Quartier latin hoary professors vie with cherub-faced students to do the " lily-white damsel" honor. Then the procession begins and Jeanne d'Arc is followed by her army, garbed in the costumes of their ancestors, who march with firm intent " to boot the English out of France...