Let me have men about me that are fat: Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o’ nights: Yond’ Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous. SHAKESPEARE: _Julius Caesar_, act i, sc. 2. “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 also in English newspapers, magazines, and reviews; so that few, I fancy, will commence the perusal of the prese…
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