STRANGE STREET NAMES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 206, 1 September 1938, Page 10

STRANGE STREET NAMES.

One street of Parie, the Street of the Fiehing Cat, has given ite name to a famous novel, and has incidentally called attention to the many etrange street names in Paris and other towns of France. There are many picturesque names in Paris, euch ae Almond Tree Street, or the Green Road Street, now with not a vestige of the greenery which J bordered it when Jean Jacques Rousseau passed along it musing. Big Stone Street, Street of Naughty Boys, Wooden Sword Street, Dry Tree Street, Cut-Purse Street, Butter Mill Street and Street of Mules' Footsteps, are all to be found in quarters where the old houees abound. In the euburbe of Paris, at Sevres, on the hank of the Seine close to the wooded hills of St. Cloud, is the Street of the" Wineless Well, and the Alley of the Headless Woman, echo probably of some crime. At Epinal, picturesque town of the Vosges, is an Alley of Vain Endeavour. Matching this is a street of the cathedral city of Beauvaie, the /Street of the Ascension with Regret. Renowned for good meals, Straseburg can show yoii a Garlic Street and Sucking Pig Square. Marseilles grows romantic, with Street of Little Brides and Lovere' Street. One of the strangest street names in France however, is undoubtedly that at Lille, which hae a Street of! Humpbacked Cats.