Paris herself again in 1878-9 . XXII. IN THE HUE DE LA PAIX. April 18. Just as the faintest promise of fine weather is beginning to gildour long-darkened horizon—it hailed yesterday and it may snowto-morrow, but to-day the sun shines so brilliantly that you almostforget the cutting east wind— the sorrowful fact confronts the would-be merry-maker that the Easter holidays are virtually over. Fewand far between are the apparitions in the streets of small boj-s cladin the uniforms of the various Parisian colleges, which I hesitateto call b}^ their old names of Louis le Grand, Charlemagne, Bour-bon
Paris herself again in 1878-9 . XXII. IN THE HUE DE LA PAIX. April 18. Just as the faintest promise of fine weather is beginning to gildour long-darkened horizon—it hailed yesterday and it may snowto-morrow, but to-day the sun shines so brilliantly that you almostforget the cutting east wind— the sorrowful fact confronts the would-be merry-maker that the Easter holidays are virtually over. Fewand far between are the apparitions in the streets of small boj-s cladin the uniforms of the various Parisian colleges, which I hesitateto call b}^ their old names of Louis le Grand, Charlemagne, Bour-bon, and so forth, lest under the newest Republican regime, theseonce familiar designations have been changed for more democratictitles. The Municipal Council, for instance, are playing a game ofconfusion worse confounded with the names of some of the bestknown thoroughfares in the French metropolis. A clean sweep IN THE RUE DE LA PAIX. 323 has been made of all appellations recalling directly or indirectly thefasti of the Firs
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