Some world-circuit saunterings . r visits to France, from occupy-ing state apartments which had been assigned her atthe Grand Trianon at Versailles. Grim Paris itseems also as you bend over the balustrade to lookdown at the tomb of Napoleon, if war is whole spell of the Napoleonic cult you feel and,indeed, if the tradition be true, the designer of thetomb ingeniously provided that every visitor to thetomb, by the very attitude of looking over the lowcircHng wall of the gallery above it, should make aquasi-obeisance to it. Musical Paris it seems as youvisit the grave of Chopin; theolog
Some world-circuit saunterings . r visits to France, from occupy-ing state apartments which had been assigned her atthe Grand Trianon at Versailles. Grim Paris itseems also as you bend over the balustrade to lookdown at the tomb of Napoleon, if war is whole spell of the Napoleonic cult you feel and,indeed, if the tradition be true, the designer of thetomb ingeniously provided that every visitor to thetomb, by the very attitude of looking over the lowcircHng wall of the gallery above it, should make aquasi-obeisance to it. Musical Paris it seems as youvisit the grave of Chopin; theological Paris as by thegraves of Abelard and Heloise you recall the con-troversies, the typical Gallicanism, the Hterature andromance that have stirred and fluctuated in theecclesiastical Paris of the Christian centuries. Fora single generation has seen a France—that meansParis—esteem the right hand of the Papacy as in thetime of Napoleon the Third and Eugenie, and as nowpractically under Papal ban. Well do some of our [114] H!. ^s B OD o o? B s|:5|.^ S o 0^ ^o AVIGNON—PARADOXICAL PARIS New Testament commentators see in the Galatiansof old the Asia Minor type, if not the direct kin, ofthe Gaul—the course of that empire being eastwardinstead of westward by a curious ethnical trend—andin both the ancestry of a trait of modern Franceidentified by St. Paul when he says to the Galatians,Who hath bewitched you? Moreover, it was certainly a hospitable Paris aswe found old friends there and experienced theircourtesy. And by no means a beaten path wefound—our driver went astray and had to do consid-erable inquiring to place it—was the pilgrimageto the grave of Lafayette. Of all places in Paris forAmericans to put in their itinerary, one would thinkthat the place in the Picpus Cemetery of the burialof the great friend of America would have firstrecognition. By it is the grave of Lafayettes son,George Washington Lafayette. Small American flagsbore the evidence of former vis
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