No one emptied the Café des Amateurs though, and its yellowed poster stating the terms and penalties of the law against public drunkenness was as flyblown and disregarded as its clients were constant and ill-smelling.Īll of the sadness of the city came suddenly with the first cold rains of winter, and there were no more tops to the high white houses as you walked but only the wet blackness of the street and the closed doors of the small shops, the herb sellers, the stationery and the newspaper shops, the midwife-second class-and the hotel where Verlaine had died where I had a room on the top floor where I worked. The tank wagons were painted brown and saffron color and in the moonlight when they worked the rue Cardinal Lemoine their wheeled, horse-drawn cylinders looked like Braque paintings.
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In the summer time, with all windows open, we would hear the pumping and the odor was very strong. The squat toilets of the old apartment houses, one by the side of the stairs on each floor with the two cleated cement shoe-shaped elevations on each side of the aperture so a locataire would not slip, emptied into cesspools which were emptied by pumping into horse-drawn tank wagons at night. The Café des Amateurs was the cesspool of the rue Mouffetard, that wonderful narrow crowded market street which led into the Place Contrescarpe. The women drunkards were called poivrottes which meant female rummies. Many strangely named apéritifs were advertised, but few people could afford them except as a foundation to build their wine drunks on. The men and women who frequented the Amateurs stayed drunk all of the time, or all of the time they could afford it, mostly on wine which they bought by the half-liter or liter. It was a sad, evilly run café where the drunkards of the quarter crowded together and I kept away from it because of the smell of dirty bodies and the sour smell of drunkenness. The leaves lay sodden in the rain and the wind drove the rain against the big green autobus at the terminal and the Café des Amateurs was crowded and the windows misted over from the heat and the smoke inside. We would have to shut the windows in the night against the rain and the cold wind would strip the leaves from the trees in the Place Contrescarpe. It would come in one day when the fall was over.
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$5,000 – full back cover advertisement SOLD Peony – $5,000 – Private dining table for up to six (6) guests and a full color journal advertisement Rose – $15,000 – Private dining table for up to twelve (12) guests and a full color journal advertisementĭogwood – $10,000 – Private dining table for up to ten (10) guests and a full color journal advertisement $3,000 donation includes two tickets to the communal table and a half page color journal advertisement Various historic garden spaces will be activated as we celebrate the spring blooms, locally sourced produce, our community, and the rich agricultural history of Planting Fields.īernadette Castro, Debra Del Vecchio, Duncan Sahner Please join us under the evening sky for a progressive dining experience at Planting Fields Honoring Chairman Emeritus Hal Davidson.
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