Excerpt from The English Illustrated Magazine, Vol. 29: April to September, 1903 Before the mists are scattered along Rue Duperre bya tardy sun rising above the white towers of Sacre Coeur, on the heights of Montmartre, when the goat herd, in his blue smock and sabots, has driven his ock before the wild music of his pipe along Rue des Martyrs beyond Montmartre, into suburban Paris - there is a gathering of the brotherhood of models around the fountain of Place Pigalle. They gather there every Monday morning of the year. It is an old custom of the quarter, the origin of which is forgotten in the melee of traditions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."