. Paris and environs with routes from London to Paris; handbook for travellers. savages, scenes of savage life, portraits of AmericanIndians, war-suits, and implements of various kinds. The large sa-loon is devoted almost exclusively to curiosities brought home byFrench navigators and the spoil captured in the course of militaryexpeditions in India, China, and Japan. Much better collections ofthe same kind may be seen at the Musee Guimet (p. 167) and theTrocadero (p. 170). The Corridor behind Rooms I-VI, the Galerie des Firognes, containssmall models of Arab. Indian, Chinese, Australasian, and
. Paris and environs with routes from London to Paris; handbook for travellers. savages, scenes of savage life, portraits of AmericanIndians, war-suits, and implements of various kinds. The large sa-loon is devoted almost exclusively to curiosities brought home byFrench navigators and the spoil captured in the course of militaryexpeditions in India, China, and Japan. Much better collections ofthe same kind may be seen at the Musee Guimet (p. 167) and theTrocadero (p. 170). The Corridor behind Rooms I-VI, the Galerie des Firognes, containssmall models of Arab. Indian, Chinese, Australasian, and Polynesian shipsand boats, dwellings, etc. The Chinese Museum (to the left on leaving the Marine Mu-seum), which may be regarded as a continuation of the Ethnographicalcollection, is also of secondary importance, being surpassed in interestby the collections at the Musee Guimet (p. 167), while its porcelainis far inferior to that of the Collection Grandidier (p. 151). Leaving the last room, we enter a corridor, which is adjoined MUMSS^ DU LOUVRE ^ilelres. Rue de Rivoli U R. ^ i or L 0 r V R E r - A. d. Pet its escaUers. SECO:SD ETAGE. B. Gfa/z^Z escaHer. Chalcographie. 2. LOUVRE. 151 by the Salle des Boltes on tlie right. This saloon and the corridorcontain the most valuable drawings by Raphael (18; and an au-tograph), Michael Angela (6j, Leonardo da Vinci, Titian, Poussin(18), Holbein, preserved in wooden cases (whence the roomderives its name). The direct approach to this collection is by thestaircase called the Escalier Henri II. in the Pavilion de IHorloge(p. 142). Two other collections have been arranged in a kind of second entresolon the side next the Seine, viz. the Chalcographie and the Collection Grandi-dier. The principal entrance to these is by the Forte Jean-Goujon, oppositethe Pavilion Denon, but there is another in that Pavilion via the Salle desMoulages (see the ground-plan). The Chalcographie was founded by Louis XIV. in 1660, on the modelof the Calcografi
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