See COVE Master Map entry: https://editions.covecollective.org/place/paris

In London Labour and the London Poor edition:

Phase 1

A Visit to the Cholera Districts of Bermondsey (Morning Chronicle): "M. D'Arcet had to examine a lodging in Paris, in which three young and vigorous men had died successively in the course of a few years, under similar symptoms. The lodging consisted of a bed-room with a chimney, and an ill-ventilated ante-room. The pipe of a privy passed down one side of the room, by the head of the bed, and the wall in this part was damp from infiltration. At the time of the examination there was no perceptible smell in the room, though it was small and low. M. D'Arcet attributed the mortality in the lodging to the slow and long-continued action of the emanations from the pipe (Ann. d'Hyg., Juillet, 1836)."

London Considered as a Great World. (The Great World of London): "In short, London may be safely asserted to be the most densely-populated city in all the world - containing one-fourth more people than Pekin, and two-thirds more than Paris; more than twice as many as Constantinople; four times as many as St. Petersburg; five times as many as Vienna, or New York, or Madrid; nearly seven times as many as Berlin eight times as many as Amsterdam; nine times as many as Rome ; fifteen times as many as Copenhagen; and seventeen times as many as Stockholm."

The Doll’s-Eye Maker. (Volume 3): "False eyes are a great charity to servants. If they lose an eye no one will engage them. In Paris there is a charitable institution for the supply of false eyes to the poor; and I really think, if there was a similar establishment in this country for furnishing artificial eyes to those whose bread depends on their looks, like servants, it would do a great deal of good."

Tom-tom Players. (Volume 3): "My name is Usef Asman, and my father has been over here twelve years now. He came here in the English army, I’ve heard him say, for he was in the 77th Bengal Native Infantry; but he wasn’t an Indian, but enlisted in the service and fought through the Sikh war, and was wounded. He hasn’t got a pension, for he sent his luggage through Paris to England, and he lost his writings. The East India Company only told him that he must wait until they heard from India, and that’s been going on for now six years."

Phase 2

Bone-Grubbers and Rag-Gatherers. (Volume 2)

OF THE STREET-SELLERS OF SECOND-HAND ARTICLES. (Volume 2)

Exhibitor of Mechanical Figures. (Volume 3)

Acrobat, or Street-Posturer. (Volume 3)

Gun-Exercise Exhibitor—One-legged Italian. (Volume 3)

MEETING OF TICKET-OF-LEAVE MEN (Volume 3)

No. 47, Answers to Correspondents

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