. Art in France. the old city of the Cabochiens, ofthe League, of the Fronde, of 1792, 1830 and 1848, the Paris ofrevolutions, was difhcult to hold; Louis XVI, Charles X andLouis Philippe had felt the irksomeness of being shut up in theTuileries, the prisoners of their subjects. Under Louis Philippe,at the slightest alarm, the network of narrow streets bristled with barricades: an overturned omni-bus and a few paving-stonessufficed to hold up the kingsemissaries, while chairs andtables rained from every III could not think ofabandoning Paris; but, under theadministration of Hau

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. Art in France. the old city of the Cabochiens, ofthe League, of the Fronde, of 1792, 1830 and 1848, the Paris ofrevolutions, was difhcult to hold; Louis XVI, Charles X andLouis Philippe had felt the irksomeness of being shut up in theTuileries, the prisoners of their subjects. Under Louis Philippe,at the slightest alarm, the network of narrow streets bristled with barricades: an overturned omni-bus and a few paving-stonessufficed to hold up the kingsemissaries, while chairs andtables rained from every III could not think ofabandoning Paris; but, under theadministration of Haussmann,engineers and architects created anew city. After the fashion of LeNotre, when he was laying out aFrench park, they drove wideavenues and regular streets boldlythrough the tangle of old build-ings; even the most ordinaryhouses, with no pretensions toartistic merit, were brought into FIC. TOf). -Il;il-I HITTORF. i I J » J cHLRcuoFSAiNTviNCENi-DE-PAti., PARIS. Ihc systcm oi dccoration, and 380. NATURALISM

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