Excerpt from The Book-Hunter in Paris: Studies Among the Bookstalls and the Quays And so it has come to pass that the stall-keepers on the quays of the Seine survive even unto this day to excite the curiosity of every vagrant bookhunter who visits the most charming city in the world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.