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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 Taris 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 nn "impasse," called L'Impasse de l'Ku-fant l'Ku-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 Fere Lachaise cemetery is an appropriate Street of Kepose. There, just facing the celebrated burial ground, Is a cafe nnd the enterprising en-terprising proprietor has hung a sign on his door reading, "Welcome! Tou are better off here than across the street." La ltue du Chat qui Teche, or the Street of the Fishing Cat, is mother of peculiar nomenclatures to be found in Paris, as well ns the Streets of White Coats, of the Red Ball, the Green Road, the Golden King and the White Queen. As for sizes, there Is the Big Tebble street, Little Fields ! street (also Big Fields), Street of. the Big Bottle, the Little Monk and the Big Trior'. |