The Fat and the Thin

INTRODUCTION

“THE FAT AND THE THIN,” or, to use the French title, “Le Ventre de Paris,” is a story of life in and around those vast Central Markets which form a distinctive feature of modern Paris. Even the reader who has never crossed the Channel must have heard of the Parisian _Halles_, for much has been written about them, not only in English books on the French metropolis, but a...