. Zigzag journeys in Europe : vacation rambles in historic lands. UPPER NORMANDY. 237 or parliament house is called, is an odd but picturesque lines three sides of a public PALAIS DE JUSTICE. ROUEN. To-morrow, said Master Lewis, after a day of sight-seeing: iuRouen, we go to the most beautiful city in all the world. I wish I knew more about the history of Paris, said ErnestWynn, now that it is so near to us. I think of it as a place of gayetyand splendor, the scene of St. Bartholomews Massacre, of the Revolu-. tion, and the Commune. It was the city that Napoleon seemed to
. Zigzag journeys in Europe : vacation rambles in historic lands. UPPER NORMANDY. 237 or parliament house is called, is an odd but picturesque lines three sides of a public PALAIS DE JUSTICE. ROUEN. To-morrow, said Master Lewis, after a day of sight-seeing: iuRouen, we go to the most beautiful city in all the world. I wish I knew more about the history of Paris, said ErnestWynn, now that it is so near to us. I think of it as a place of gayetyand splendor, the scene of St. Bartholomews Massacre, of the Revolu-. tion, and the Commune. It was the city that Napoleon seemed tolove more ,than any thing else in the world. What is its early his-tory ? You will read in Julius Caesars Commentaries, in your course inLatin, said Master Lewis, a brief account of Lutetia, the chief townof the Parish, a Gallic tribe that the Romans conquered. This, I think,is the oldest historical allusion to Paris, as Lutetia came to be called. Itwas probably an old town at the time of the Roman invasion; it was VEiS \.s W HISTORIC /.. /.WW. Clovis as the seal of his empire in the sixth century; it bd w when the Northmen came sailing up the Seine in theif strange shi] ind made it thei
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