. Twenty centuries of Paris . ytend the altar, rests the body of Americas friend,Lafayette. If for no other reason than becauseof his friendship, Americans must always feelan interest in the city in which he did his part to-ward crystallizing the bourgeois rule which makesthe French government one of the most interest-ing political experiments of Europe to-day. YetParis needs no intermediary. In her are centeredtaste, thought, the gayety and exaggeration ofthe past, light-heartedness in the stern city is a record of the development of apeople who have expressed themselves in wordsa
. Twenty centuries of Paris . ytend the altar, rests the body of Americas friend,Lafayette. If for no other reason than becauseof his friendship, Americans must always feelan interest in the city in which he did his part to-ward crystallizing the bourgeois rule which makesthe French government one of the most interest-ing political experiments of Europe to-day. YetParis needs no intermediary. In her are centeredtaste, thought, the gayety and exaggeration ofthe past, light-heartedness in the stern city is a record of the development of apeople who have expressed themselves in wordsand in deeds, and by the more subtle methods ofArt. The story is not ended, and as long as thewriting goes on, vivid and alluring as the Gallicspirit can make it, so long there will be no lackof readers of all nations, our own among themost eager. APPENDIX GENEALOGICAL TABLES OF THE SOVEREIGNS OF FRANCE CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OFRULERS, 1792-1913 385 386 TWENTY CENTURIES OF PARIS H w i Q o M o w Eh >o u -\0> •rH I oo «0 o. 00 —T1 ^ P,P d M 0) •rH <^-C f-* *y rH O fl — — 00 — = c - 388 TWENTY CENTURIES OF PARIS H< Q O ?d Oo >» om *H O is a © OS © |ci 3 © APPENDIX 389 uP o w . o ..g a f Q M © MQ © <M^ O a, 6* M © -?S3O 00 ? = c o o O © O »si CO *3 © tH — ft. *-h GO —. 5- °§ CO to TH •to ^ _]_ kS 3© ^1 390
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