. Paris as seen and described by famous writers ... a good word forthe Champs-£lysees, which are very fine and begin toattract the public. There they are now consecrated bythe crowd, fashion is about to come and will not again de-sert them. Their revenge on the long vogue of Cours laReine began then and still lasts. Under the Restoration,vain attempts were made to restore a little life to the latterby building a new quarter in its vicinity, in the midst of 384 PARIS which was set like a stray pearl that marvellous Maison deFrancois I. The alley close by was for a long time the most melan-choly
. Paris as seen and described by famous writers ... a good word forthe Champs-£lysees, which are very fine and begin toattract the public. There they are now consecrated bythe crowd, fashion is about to come and will not again de-sert them. Their revenge on the long vogue of Cours laReine began then and still lasts. Under the Restoration,vain attempts were made to restore a little life to the latterby building a new quarter in its vicinity, in the midst of 384 PARIS which was set like a stray pearl that marvellous Maison deFrancois I. The alley close by was for a long time the most melan-choly of all the walks. Widows, whom ancient etiquettewould not allow to show themselves in public during theperiod of their mourning, found only this spot in which totake a little air without letting themselves be seen. Thename, Allee des Veuves^ clung to it, and, deserted and soli-tary, it was long before it gave the lie to sadness. To-daythe name is changed, the alley is called the Avenue Mon-taigne^ and its appearance has changed much more THE BOIS DE BOULOGNE JRSENE HOUSSJTE THIS is a fairy tale, a mythological story ! WhatUndine has made these cascades spout; for whatAlcinous has Minerva planted the regular treesof these avenues ? In old days, before Queen Bertha, when Paris was onlya straggling village, a mass of thatched roofs, ill reduced toorder by barbarians, Paris clasped a belt of marshy forestsaround her walls built of mud and gravel. The belt hasbeen gradually loosened, each epoch taking away a link,every king substituting a faubourg for a copse, a quarter fora growth of brushwood. Of the belt there remains nowat most two fragments, embroidered anew by the curiouszeal of modern caprice : I mean the Bois de Vincennes andthe Bois de Boulogne. But who would imagine that in thisBois de Boulogne, frequented to-day by handsome couplesand highly civilized beings, the sons of Chilperic andTheoderic passed, flourishing their frameas^ and keeping asharp lookout for the
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