Hasnamussian caprices

“It will be as well to notice and to draw your attention to the fact that the fathers and grandfathers of these ‘artiste’ or ‘actors’ of the contemporary ‘Montmartre theater restaurants’ still only quite recently in these various establishments there in Montmartre – thanks of course to what is called the ‘sweat of peasants’ – laughed at and insulted the individual dignity of the beings of other communities but now their children and grandchildren themselves are humbled and serve as objects for the satisfaction of the ‘Hasnamussian caprices’ of what are called the ‘much-moneyed beings’ of other communities. BTG XXXVII

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