[25] See Chapter xi for a further account of Bohemia's amusements.
[26] In a preface to Gérard de Nerval's "Œuvres."
[27] "Les Confessions."
[28] The following account combines much of the information given in three books: Champfleury's "Souvenirs et Portraits de Jeunesse"; "Henri Murger et la Bohème," by A. Delvau; and the curious little "Histoire de Murger pour servir à l'histoire de la Vraie Bohème," par trois Buveurs d'Eau, the anonymous authors of which are known to be his friends, Lelioux, Nadar, and Noel. It is in the last named that some of Murger's letters are given. There is a certain amount of conflict between the dates given in these different books, but since they are all equally likely to be inaccurate, I have chosen to ignore the discrepancies, which are not very important.
[29] This appears in Charles Monselet's diary printed in the memoir by A. Monselet.
[30] "Histoire anecdotique des Cafés et Cabarets de Paris."
[31] In the summer they took place in the Champs Elysées.
[32] M. Henri d'Alméras in "La Vie Parisienne sous Louis Philippe," from whose book other details of these balls are taken.
[33] The popular term for the prison in which refractory members of the Garde Nationale were confined.
[34] Now printed in his "Portraits Contemporains."