. Twenty centuries of Paris . O CO W < « DC 02 I- C/5 UJ I. uj -: PARIS OF LOUIS NAPOLEON 363 needed illumination. Two railway stations addeda convenient public service. Just outside the fortifications is the Bois deBoulogne, originally a forest, but now developedas a park, retaining its naturalness and charmwith the addition of good roads, and attractivetea-houses. Finally, the lovely Pare Monceau was laid outto please the prosperous inhabitants of the re-cently developed quarter near the Arc de lEtoile,and an old quarry was ingeniously convertedinto a thing of seemingly natural beauty for
. Twenty centuries of Paris . O CO W < « DC 02 I- C/5 UJ I. uj -: PARIS OF LOUIS NAPOLEON 363 needed illumination. Two railway stations addeda convenient public service. Just outside the fortifications is the Bois deBoulogne, originally a forest, but now developedas a park, retaining its naturalness and charmwith the addition of good roads, and attractivetea-houses. Finally, the lovely Pare Monceau was laid outto please the prosperous inhabitants of the re-cently developed quarter near the Arc de lEtoile,and an old quarry was ingeniously convertedinto a thing of seemingly natural beauty forthe benefit of the poorer people of Bellevillein the north-eastern part of the city. In 1861the population of Paris was 1,667,841. Yet even all these public works and the bril-liancy of the not at all exclusive court whichNapoleon and his wife, Eugenie (whom he hadmarried with magnificent ceremony at NotreDame in 1853), held at the Tuileries, could notentirely calm the restless and not yet satisfiedParisians. To the poorer classes empire didnot ring as true
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