Days near Paris . .—Delille. Hence, a few steps bring us to La Grande Cascade, themost magnificent of the grandes-eaux, which plays from4 to 5 on the second Sunday of every month in sum-mer, and on the three Sundays of the fete de St. Cloud,which lasts from three to five weeks from the first Sundayin September. The upper part of the cascade is dueto Lepautre, by whom it was constructed for Monsieur,brother of Louis XIV.; the lower to Mansart. The twocascades are completely harmonious, though separated bythe walk called Allee de Tillet, from a house which onceoccupied the site. True Parisi
Days near Paris . .—Delille. Hence, a few steps bring us to La Grande Cascade, themost magnificent of the grandes-eaux, which plays from4 to 5 on the second Sunday of every month in sum-mer, and on the three Sundays of the fete de St. Cloud,which lasts from three to five weeks from the first Sundayin September. The upper part of the cascade is dueto Lepautre, by whom it was constructed for Monsieur,brother of Louis XIV.; the lower to Mansart. The twocascades are completely harmonious, though separated bythe walk called Allee de Tillet, from a house which onceoccupied the site. True Parisians of the middle classes 12 DA YS NEAR PARIS have no greater pleasure than a day spent at St. Cloud—pour voir jouer les eaux. At the end of one of the principal avenues, Allee deBreteuil, below the Allee du Chateau, is the Pavilion deBreteuil^ built by the Bailli de Breteuil, Chancellor of theDuke of Orleans. Joining the park of St. Cloud is that of VilleneuveVEtang^ which belonged to the Duchesse dAngouleme,. LA GRANDE CASCADE, ST. CLOUD. who frequently resided there as Dauphine, during the reignof Charles X., devoting herself to the education of hernephew, afterwards Comte de Chambord. It was herethat, a fortnight before the revolution of 1830, which droveher from France, she received a visit—accompanied byvehement demonstrations of loyalty and affection—fromLouis Philippe. The favorite summer retreat of Napoleon III.—wherethe garden still retains the seat of the Empress Eugenie, SEVRES 13 and the swing and miniature railway of the Prince Imperial—is now occupied by the dog-kennels and experiments ofM. Pasteur. Between St. Cloud and Versailles, with a station on therailway, is Ville d^Avray (Restaurant de la Chaumiere),with pools surrounded by wood, constantly painted byCorot, to whom a monument (by Dechaune) has beenerected, near the house which he occupied. Marc AntoineThierry, first valet de chambre of Louis XVI., built achateau here, below which was a (still
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