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Show French Capital Noted for Odd Street Names Not enly persons and events are recorded re-corded in the names of Paris thoroughfares, thor-oughfares, but colors, animals, saints, virtues and vices. God and Babylon each have a street; the Trinity has a square, the' Holy Spirit a public courtyard and the child Jesus Is represented by an "Impasse," called LTmpasse de l'En-fant l'En-fant Jesu, on the left bank not far from the bright lights of the Mont-parnasse. Mont-parnasse. There Is a Street of Bad Boys as well as another of Good Children. Near the Pere Lachalse cemetery Is an appropriate Street of Repose. There, just facing the celebrated burial ground, Is a cafe and the enterprising en-terprising proprietor has hung a sign on his door reading, "Welcome I You are better off here than across the street" La Rue du Chat qui Peche, or the Street of the Fishing Cat, is another of peculiar nomenclatures to be found in Paris, as well as the Streets of White Coats, of the Red Ball, the Green Road, the Golden King and the White Queen. As for sizes, there is tbe Big Pebble street, Little Fields street (also Big Fields), Street of the Big Bottle, the Little Monk and the Big Priory. |