It is forbidden, even in Paris, to dirty the street

The Persian of Montesquieu, the Huron of Voltaire, and all the other foreigners who visit Paris note with surprise a filthiness of which we have no reason to be proud.
How, they say, can we tolerate the unclean carelessness of these people who throw onto the sidewalks everything that bothers them: cigarette boxes, match fragments, orange peels or used cigarette butts? In New York as in Berlin, in Geneva as in Brussels, such a thing is forbidden: the street, which belongs to everyone, is not soiled by anyone.
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They would be even more surprised if they learned that in Paris too it is forbidden to throw paper, peelings or other rubbish on the public highway.
There is a prefectural order dated March 1, 1913 on this subject and, in the Memento of the Guardians of the Peace, it is recalled that the projection of objects on the roadway is prohibited, as well as on the Metro platforms.
But try the experiment we did yesterday: throw, “to see”, paper rolled into a ball, paper reduced to confetti, and even a newspaper spread out, on the boulevards. In front of the Madeleine, the service agent will not say a word. In front of the Opera he will not utter a word. Rue de la Paix, he will not intervene.
Only one, on rue Daunou, made a gesture with his foot, he pushed the newspaper which had just fallen... on his boot, back to the stream. Certainly, we do not want to see the already considerable number of fines reported increase.
But will we not be allowed to remind the Parisian public that the cleanliness of Paris is necessary for the reputation of the city, as well as for its enjoyment for those who live there?
Well! for a piece of paper!....
Yes, but the one who throws a piece of paper on the ground encourages others to do the same. In foreign cities. where nothing soils the sidewalk and the road, we hesitate to throw anything there, we don't dare.
It is true that abroad there are many waste baskets on the way public, while Paris has barely twenty of them hanging from gas jets on which you have to fall to discover them. As long as we do not have more, it will obviously be difficult to demand strict compliance with the order of March 1, 1913...