text:  On arriving at the northern end of the bridge the passenger had on his right a covered gallery of shops stretching up the river side to the Pont Notre Dame and called the Quai de Gesvres; here was a fashionable promenade for the beaux of Paris for it was filled with the stalls of pretty milliners like one of our bazars and boasted of an occasional bookseller's shop or two where the tender ballads of Ronsard or the broad jokes of Rabelais might be purchased and read for a few livres