"The Street of Our Lady of the Fields" by Robert W. Chambers

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"Et tout les jours passés dans la tristesse
Nous sont comptés comme des jours heureux!"

-From the opera Ariodant (1799) by Étienne Méhul. This means approximately "All our sad days are counted as happy ones."

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0:00:00 Chapter 1
0:06:38 Chapter 2
0:14:27 Chapter 3
0:30:09 Chapter 4
0:58:31 Chapter 5
1:08:13 Chapter 6

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The accent of Madame Marotte is written into the text. I'm not trying to be farcical about it, I'm just reading it as written.

Turns out "Notre Dame des Champs" is French for "Our Lady of the Fields".

From the footnotes in my book, regarding the use of "entente cordiale": A diplomatic understanding - here used comically.

Jean Paul Laurens: A French painter (1838-1921), little remembered today because he embraced the Academic style, soon to be overshadowed by the work of the Impressionists.

Guillaume Bouguereau: Adolphe-Guillaume Bouguereau (1825-1905) was an immensely popular Academic-style painter, whose work was scorned by the impressionists and the avant-garde. According to art critic Grace Glueck, writing in the New York Times on January 6, 1985, "Degas and his friends used the term 'bouguerated' to derogate a finicky, overly finished painting surface," and by the 1920s, his work was largely relegated to museum basements.

Baedecker is a reference to the Baedeker Guides, travel guide books published by the Karl Baedeker firm of Germany beginning in the 1830s.

From the footnotes in my book, the meaning of "un peu sans gêne": a little inconsiderate

The character of Severn mentioned in passing in chapter 4 is the main character from "The Street of the Four Winds".

Miss Helyett was a popular opera back at the end of the 19th century, in which one very popular actress, Leslie Carter, apparently memorably featured in the New York City performances at the Star Theater.

The pictures used are:

Chapter 1: Eglise Notre Dame des Champs, by Dinkum.

Chapter 2: The facade of apartments in Paris.

Chapter 3: "19 - 10 novembre 2008 Paris Jardin du Luxembourg Statues Diane à la biche" by melina1965, used here under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/).

Chapter 4: The painting "Un coin du Salon en 1880" by Édouard Joseph Dantan. The Salon, beginning in 1667 was the official art exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

Chapter 5: A photo of "L'Epte" at Giverny, France in 2011, by Hetx, used here under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/).

Chapter 6: "The steam train of Cevennes (Gard, France)." by Georges Seguin (Okki), used here under the Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en).

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