STRANGE STREET NAMES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 227, 24 August 1938, Page 14

STRANGE STREET NAMES.

One street of Paris, the Street of tlio Fishing Oat, has given its name to a famous novel, and has incidentally called attention to the many ' strange street names in Paris and other towns of France. There are many picturesque names in Paris, such as Almond Tree Street, or the Green Road Street, now with not a vestige of tlie greenery which bordered it when Jean Jacques Rousseau passed along i 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 old houses abound. In the suburbs of Paris, at Sevres, on the bank of the Seine close to the wooded hills of St. Cloud, is the Street of the Wineless Well, and the Alley of tlie Headless Woman, echo probably of some crime.

At Epraal, picturesque town of the Vosges, is an Alley of Vain Endeavour. Matching this is a street of the cathedral city of Beauvais, the Street of the Ascension with Regret. Renowned for good meals, Strassburg can show you a Garlic Street and a Sucking Pig Square. Marseilles grows romantic, with Street of Little Brides and Lovers’ Street. One of the strangest street names in France, however is undoubtedly that at Lille, which has a Street of Humpbacked Cats