Word: quartier
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...time when the young man's fancy turns to the romantic, Von Hindenberg feels the call of Paris. Annually he longs for the life of the Quartier Latin, and annually he is forced to spend the summer months commuting from Russia to France. But the old game of war is not as amusing as formerly, the Bolsheviki refuse to go near the Mazurian Lakes, and the German people is loth to waste any more good nails on a wooden image of the Kaiser's right-hand...
...KALOPOTHAKES.CONFERENCE FRANCAISE.- Meeting this evening at 7.30 in 18 Stoughton. "Le Quartier Latin de Paris - M. Mitchell. Please come very promptly...
...informed that the total number of students in the College de France and Sorbonne exceeds eight thousand, most of whom dwell in that section of Paris called the "Quartier Latin." Here it is that one sees and is able to judge of student life in its highest perfection. The Quartier is full of third and fourth rate "cafes," "brasseries" and "bals masques," and it is at these places that the French student seeks his recreation. He knows no sports, nor does he feel the need of any, for he is totally indifferent to the laws of health. He is most...
...Upidee' is American. Nor has he secret societies. . . . The students of Paris have no press of their own. College journalism, though not unknown, has proved unsuccessful among them. The most long-lived of these short-lived productions appeared during a few months in 1879. This sheet was entitled Le Quartier Latin: Journal Humoristique, Litteraire et Scientifique, and it promised to be the 'organ of the wants and pleasures of the students.' Tales, madrigals, sonnets, anecdotes and jokes filled its columns; there was scarcely a serious bit of writing in it. Now, the young men with journalistic talent send their contributions...