" She was perfectly right;
there WAS often something "very French," but my brother and I had
always seen it and noted it before we were moved off from the
windows.
I wonder if any "marchands de coco" still survive in Paris. "Coco"
had nothing to do with cocoa, but was a most mawkish beverage
compounded principally of liquorice and water. The attraction
about it lay in the great tank the vendor carried strapped to his
back. This tank was covered with red velvet and gold tinsel, and
was surmounted with a number of little tinkling silver bells. In
addition to that, the "marchand de coco" carried all over him
dozens of silver goblets, or, at all events, goblets that looked
like silver, in which he handed out his insipid brew. Who would
not long to drink out of a silver cup a beverage that flowed out
of a red and gold tank, covered with little silver bells, be it
never so mawkish?
The gardens of the Luxembourg were, if anything, even more
attractive than the Tuileries gardens.
Another delightful place for children was the Hippodrome, long
since demolished and built over.
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