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Note: This book by Henry Murger was the source of the plot used by Puccini in his opera "La Bohème." Project Gutenberg also has the original French version (Scènes de la vie de bohème); see http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/18446

 

 

 

BOHEMIANS OF THE LATIN QUARTER

Henry Murger

1888

Vizetelly & Co. London

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface
Chapter I, How The Bohemian Club Was Formed
Chapter II, A Good Angel
Chapter III, Lenten Loves
Chapter IV, Ali Rodolphe; Or, The Turk Perforce
Chapter V, The Carlovingian Coin
Chapter VI, Mademoiselle Musette
Chapter VII, The Billows of Pactolus
Chapter VIII, The Cost Of a Five Franc Piece
Chapter IX, The White Violets
Chapter X, The Cape of Storms
Chapter XI, A Bohemian Cafe
Chapter XII, A Bohemian "At Home"
Chapter XIII, The House Warming
Chapter XIV, Mademoiselle Mimi
Chapter XV, Donec Gratus
Chapter XVI, The Passage of the Red Sea
Chapter XVII, The Toilette of the Graces
Chapter XVIII, Francine's Muff
Chapter XIX, Musette's Fancies
Chapter XX, Mimi in Fine Feather
Chapter XXI, Romeo and Juliet
Chapter XXII, Epilogue To The Loves Of Rodolphe And Mademoiselle Mimi
Chapter XXIII, Youth Is Fleeting

PREFACE

The Bohemians of whom it is a question in this book have no connectionwith the Bohemians whom melodramatists have rendered synonymous withrobbers and assassins. Neither are they recruited from among thedancing-bear leaders, sword swallowers, gilt watch-guard vendors, streetlottery keepers and a thousand other vague and mysterious professionalswhose main business is to have no business at all, and who are alwaysready to turn their hands to anything except good.

The class of Bohemians referred to in this boo

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