France from sea to sea . Tuileries was sacked morethan once by the populace in their rages, but itremained for the Communards to destroy it in is an astonishing thing that in the vast centralcourt of this palace, still called the Place du Carrou-sel, a congeries of ramshackle old houses and manylittle streets were allowed to remain until the time ofNapoleon III. What a picture this place makesto-day—a vast garden, long, wide, ribbed with as-phalt, bordered and dotted and splashed with brilliantflowers, some of them so far away you receive onlythe effect of a tiny bit of strong color in
France from sea to sea . Tuileries was sacked morethan once by the populace in their rages, but itremained for the Communards to destroy it in is an astonishing thing that in the vast centralcourt of this palace, still called the Place du Carrou-sel, a congeries of ramshackle old houses and manylittle streets were allowed to remain until the time ofNapoleon III. What a picture this place makesto-day—a vast garden, long, wide, ribbed with as-phalt, bordered and dotted and splashed with brilliantflowers, some of them so far away you receive onlythe effect of a tiny bit of strong color in the freshgrass! On three sides tower the elaborate walls, withtheir colossal pilasters, windows, monograms andornamentation, all grimed with the indescribable reekof a great city; on the other side, through Napo-leons beautiful imitation of Septimus Severus arch,the gardens of the lost Tuileries to which the archgave entrance—gardens that stretch out clear tothe Place de la Concorde. Far in the distance, truly [296].
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