. Paris as seen and described by famous writers ... o examine them, and some extraor-dinary beautiful knickknacks in the shape of cameos, gems,and medals. There was Cloviss armchair, and one of thechessmen sent by Haroun Alraschid to Charlemagne!What a relic ! It is about the size of half a tea-caddy—aroyal chessman truly, think of Charlemagne solemnly liftingit and crying Check ! to Orlando !—think of the palaceof pictures—Zobeide has just been making a sherbert—Haroun and the Grand Vizier are at tables there by thefountain—the Commander of the Faithful looks thought-ful, and shakes his might
. Paris as seen and described by famous writers ... o examine them, and some extraor-dinary beautiful knickknacks in the shape of cameos, gems,and medals. There was Cloviss armchair, and one of thechessmen sent by Haroun Alraschid to Charlemagne!What a relic ! It is about the size of half a tea-caddy—aroyal chessman truly, think of Charlemagne solemnly liftingit and crying Check ! to Orlando !—think of the palaceof pictures—Zobeide has just been making a sherbert—Haroun and the Grand Vizier are at tables there by thefountain—the Commander of the Faithful looks thought-ful, and shakes his mighty beard—GiafFour looks pleased,although he is losing. Your Majesty always wins, sayshe, as he allows his last piece to be taken. And lo ! yondercomes Mesnour, chief of the eunuchs; he has a bundleunder his arm. Sire, pipes he in a cracked voice, itis sunset; here are the disguises; your Majesty is to go tothe ropemakers to-night. If Sindbad should call, I willget him a jar of wine, and place him in the pavilion yonderby the Tigris. 336. BIBLIOTHEQUE NATIONALE 337 Of the rest of the collection it is best to say nothing:there is a most beautiful, tender, innocent-looking head ofyoung—Nero !—a pretty parcel of trinkets that belonged toLouis Sultanas (they may have been wicked, but theywere mighty agreeable, surely)—a picture of Louis Quatorze,all wig and red-heeled pumps; another of Louis XVIIL,who, in the midst of his fat, looks like a gentleman and aman of sense, and that odious, inevitable, sickening, smirk-ing countenance of Louis—Philippe, which stares at youwherever you turn. LES TUILERIES IMBERT DE SAINT-AMAND WHEN, after having contemplated the Arc de Tri-omphe, illuminated by the setting sun as bythe flames of an apotheosis, one casts a glanceat that magnificent avenue of the Champs-Elysees, whichseems made for ovations, one feels oneself the child of agreat city, of the capital of capitals. Pursuing ones way,one looks with pride to the right in t
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