Jarrett Knott]. The text displayed may contain some errors. The text of this document has been generated automatically by an optical character recognition OCR program. A short, clear, concise and complete Guide to Paris and neighbourhood.
For all strangers visiting Paris, there are three things of paramount importance, viz. Presuming my readers are possessed of sufficient of the two former necessaries, will endeavour in the following pages to supply the latter. To the Directory has also been added an Artistic Description of Paris. This will speak for itself. The Business Directory and the selected class of advertisements will be found very useful to visitors or residents both in Paris and on the Continent.
Any information will be gladly received addressed to :. The aim of the Editor of this book is to present to the public something having claims to real artistic merit and value, and not a Guide issued as an advertising medium, but as a good guide, that is to say a friend, a confident, who being broken in to Parisian manners and habits says to you on arriving: Go to such an hotel, take such a cab and pay so much, apportion your time in this manner, follow this or that itinerary.
Such is the object of this work, which takes the traveller at his departure and does not leave him till he returns.. Is a devoted friend it will be your companion and nothing more. The question of accomodation is for the stranger an important consideration, for a good bed, a comfortable apartment and good service are items not to be despised.
Thus I have chosen, after having classed them by quarter, the hotels and pensions that may be recommended, both for situation and comfort, to all classes of travellers. Much has been said of the exaggerated prices of Paris hotels; but I am not at all of that opinion if I compare them with the prices of the hotels of Holland, Germany or other countries. Besides, the traveller may be reminded that in Paris he enjoys the most complete liberty, that is to say that he can, in certain hotels, take his meals outside without having the price of his room augmented.
