Une Semaine À Paris

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Excerpt from Une Semaine à Paris: With A Series Of Illustrated ConversationsDuring my former residence in Paris I had found that one may study the language for years and yet be quite helpless, or at the mercy of hired guides, when going about the city. The phrases and stories of the usual text - books, however well learned, do not enable the foreigner to order a dinner at a restaurant, to do his shopping, nor to pronounce the names of the streets, churches, museums, etc., intelligibly to the natives. The policeman of whom information may be asked upon the street may not understand the question, nor the bewildered inquirer the answer, and the policeman, the omnibus conductor, the cabman, the salesman, the waiter, will rarely help the stranger out of his trouble by any slowness of speech or by under standing a word of the foreign language.The double purpose of these conversations is to make the visitor acquainted both with the physical features of the city and with the information and phrases necessary to get about independently and to enjoy the sights as he' would in his own country, with the least expense of time and money.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.