RETROSPECTIONS OF AN ACTIVE LIFE i visit to abbe migne - return to the united states - visits to washington and richmond A MONG the curiosities of Paris not described in guide books and little known outside of the Church are the Ateliers -** Catholiques of the Abbe Migne. While in Paris in 1859 I spent an agreeable morning in this establishment and wrote the following account of my visit: The place was first brought to my notice by a professor of the Pontifical College at Rome, who said it was one of the largest book manufactories in the world. I found it just outside the Barriere d'Enfer in the Rue Petit Montrouge. Save a sign in very large letters painted the whole length of the immense building, there was no exterior indication of the business carried on within. I rang a bell and asked the concierge if the Abbe was in. He answered in the affirmative and took me into an immense printing room, a hundred and fifty by sixty feet, the floor of which was covered with pTable of Contents...

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