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the confusion of political
quarrels, the street lan-
terns were entirely neg-
lected, and History tells
us what sort of place
Paris was at that time
and what horrible deeds
were committed at night
under cover of the dark-
ness of the streets. In
the reign of the next
king, Henry the Fourth,
and during the civil war
of the Fronde, when the
people refused to obey
their young king, it was
no better. ‘The city was
totally unlighted, and at
night the streets were
thronged with robbers
who hid in the dark cor-
ners watching their
chance to rush out and
rob the passers; and what
made things worse, the

streets were almost entirely without pavements, so
that while a person was busy picking his way through
the mud, he was very apt to be pounced on by one of

 

HE COULD AFFORD IT.

  
  

THE LIGATS OF PARIS.

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THE PAIL OF WATER REQUIRED BY LAW.

 

 

 

TO KEEP AWAY ROBBERS.

these freebooters, robbed
of his money and jewels,
and perhaps even murdered.

At last an Italian abbot
named Landati Caraffa
thought of a plan for help-
ing the Parisians out of
their troubles, and at the
same time making himself
rich. He organized a com-

pany of light-bearers to guide people through the
streets at night, for which they charged five sous
(cents) for a quarter of an hour.

Each carried an

 

 

 

 

 

HIS OWN TORCH-BEARER.

THE VERY POOR GROPED ALONa,