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and young girls with no work would . .. squander . .. their ... health. Nearly all
of these unfortunate women ... are forced to fall back on the fifth quarter of their
day." Jean Journet, Poesies et chants hannoniens (Paris: Ala Lihrairie Universelle
de Joubert, 2 Passage dn Sanmon, et chez l'anteur, June 1857), p. !xxi
(Editor's preface). [010,6J
"Le Trottoir de la Rue des Martyrs" cites many of Gavarni's captions but makes
no mention at all of Guys, who nevertheless could have furnished the immediate
model for the following description: "It is a pleasure to see them walking down
this asphalt pavement, one side of their dress hitched up jauntily to the knee, so
as to flash in the sun a leg fine and nervous as that of an Arabian horse, full of
exquisite quivers and tremors, and temlinating in a half-boot of irreproachable
elegance. Who cares about the morality of these legs ! . .. What one wants is to
go where they go." Alfred Delvau, LeJ DeJJouJ de Paris (paris, 1860), pp. 143-44
("Les Trottoirs parisiens"