. The journal of a British chaplain in Paris during the peace negotiations of 1801-2 from the unpublished ms. of the Revd. Dawson Warren, M. A., unofficially attached to the diplomatic mission of Mr. Francis James Jackson. es ispleasant because it is clean and dry there. Thereis something grand and stately in them. Alongthe principal walks, and among the trees thefoliage of which must render them very pleasantin the summer are placed very fine copies of theantient statues and several works of modernsculptors representing chiefly allegorical person-ages. Nor should I forget to mention somebeaut
. The journal of a British chaplain in Paris during the peace negotiations of 1801-2 from the unpublished ms. of the Revd. Dawson Warren, M. A., unofficially attached to the diplomatic mission of Mr. Francis James Jackson. es ispleasant because it is clean and dry there. Thereis something grand and stately in them. Alongthe principal walks, and among the trees thefoliage of which must render them very pleasantin the summer are placed very fine copies of theantient statues and several works of modernsculptors representing chiefly allegorical person-ages. Nor should I forget to mention somebeautiful urns or vases in marble which particularlyattracted my admiration. The angles, octagonalbasins with fountains and raised terraces ; andwe are forced to recollect they form the appendageof a royal palace before we can approve of the terraces runs parallel with the Seineand is a beautiful walk as it commands a fine viewof the river, its bridges and the buildings on itsbanks. I bought a little useful work, entitled Reper-toire ou Almanack Hisiorique de la RevolutionFranfaise, A short but accurate sketch of allpublic events connected with the French Historyfrom the year 1787 to the time in which Bonaparte. I—I <!D I—I H H H MY PARIS JOURNAL 39 assumed the Government of the Repubhc, chieflyextracted from the Official Journals. Anotherpurchase I made was of a book better known andwritten in a most elegant and entertaining mannerPrecis Historique de la Revolution Frarifaise, parRabaut de St. Etienne. He was an eye witness andno inconsiderable actor in the scenes he describes,and he was one of the many victims sacrificed inconsequence of them. A continuation of the workby Lacretelle brings the History down to the end of 1792. A Second Visit to the Louvre My visit yesterday with Francis to the Museecentral des Arts highly gratifying as it was, wasonly a taste of a feast which I knew I should enjoybetter by myself. I have not got a sufficient stockof epithets to conv
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