Specially worth-mentioning are the garrets of Paris, where struggling
artists occupied the chamber de bonne (maid's room), with hardly any
standing space left by the table and the mattress.

They have acquired a romantic aura, because writers who entered better
times and shifted to more comfortable lodgings, forever carried a
nostalgia for the years of struggle with which the cramped room was
inextricably associated.

The bad news is that these art-inspiring garrets of Paris may now pass
