The daily union., 1852-12-03

WHAT THE BoULEvARDs OF PARIS HAVE sEEN-Amid
all tbs eIocngs It must not be forgotten that The Boue
Yards have already witnessed many GLORIOUS and many
sorrowful spectacle. The magnificent line, fan ked
both sides by armed men, and which has just been ira
yersed by the warke cortege, the youthful and the
cient chvalry OF France has often before the pomp
Of conquest the pride of power and the madness of de-
spar. Sights and shows the most trivial and the most
imposlng-ihe most buresque and the most ragc-the
most exciting 10 human vanity as the most humllating
have in been exhibited in that ever-varying scene,
and all within the memory OF generation thai is still
living The latest triumphs won in the last agony OF
the falling empire there exhibited. More than
eight and thirty years ago. and the hour which
the corge OF this day swept past len thousand foreign
soldiers with marks OF battle yet upon them,
deflng from the Boulevard ST. Denis, escorted by the
National Guard OF Paris they the prisoners
in the action OF Campaubert And as they passed from
many cjtizens OF Paris heard cries OF pit rAHs-
magDs /" On the 30ih OF March, in The same year,
lsi eortgs of royalists announced IN shouts which
then safe TO utter, and which had ceased to be sed
tous, the approach OF The allies 10 The capital and The
same Boulevard heard the oil :" ptue e R0i ~ Ure
Louis XVIfIr' +" Vpent les Bourbons - AT midday not
far from the spot where at this moment stands in honor
OF Louis Napoleon triumpha arch foalng with stream.
es the trumpes of the advanced guard announced the
presence OF the allies The eerffge was magnificent, and
Il included some ot the most powerful soveelgns an
men renowned in war aud IN diplomacy-the Emperor OF
Russia the King OF Prussia Prince Schwarzenbeg, the
etman Platoh and many others, clad in gorgeous uni.
form, and mounted on prancing steeds. The Empe-
for" says wrler OF The period, worea green uniform
with gold epauetes and in his ha, lofty plume. Prince
King OF Prussia IN blue uniform, with silver epauets
Lord Cathear scarlet uniform, and lille low
hat Sir Charles Stuart was covered all over with RIB,
ands stars crosses and his varied costume seemed il
made up oil all that had most struck bis fancy
the uniforms OF the various armies" The moment the
soyereigns appeared the crowd raised the sbont of
|" Pipent les fhas piUtnt hberaieWsr p Vipsnt
nos amis les fnaemisF7 " Pipem les BowbonSr' The
Grand Duke Constantine separated from the eortgs
where the classic temple OF the Madeleine now stands,
and took his Stallion side OF the BoGleVardg 10
spect The army OF 10000 men as they marched past
And when the soyeregns and chiefs retired each 10 his
quarters, the Car to the hotel Of Prace Taleyrand in
The Rue St Forenn, and the King of Prussia TO the
palace OF Prince Eugene Beauhanais, in the Rue de
Lille the Parsans gathered in the Rue Castgone, and
one mounted 10 the summit OF the column ol the Place
Vendome, and with a sledge hammer tired 10 beat down
the statue OF the Emperor!
Along this same Boulevard passed, years later,
the funeral corftge OF Louis XVIII, OF Lafayette, Of
Casimr Peuier Dt General Lamarque, whose oosequies
became the signal OF insurrcon not the least san
culinary OF those that crowd the revolutionary annals OF
Paris
Ii was along that same line that the conquerors OF the
Basle marched 10 wild Joy, after "heshing Their
swords" against The monarshy and Il was there that the
dismal 2lst of January behed Louis XVI gong TO The
scsiod Along i, TOO, were dragged The hldeous re.
mains of Marat, TO be flung into the kennels Of the Rue
Monlmartn And Mirabeau passed by II TO his house,
the Of the Rue Cuomart, to lay him down and
die And the foreign soyelegns who restored the bour,
bons, and ihe refugees Of Cobenz and the royasis OF
Gand-CharIes X and the revolution OF 1880 On the
BouleVards the Royal Guard was frst assaed BY the
National Guard OF Paris with stones-lor they, as YET,
had not more deadly weapons There too-and this is
almost OF yesterday mysterious hand fired the shot
that was the kne Of the younger monarchy, and The
agrigb,ed inhabitants beheld in the yellow flames Of
hundred torches The tumbr laden with the slain and
streaming with blood IL was there that moved, By night
and by day, those poenious PROFESSIONS Of hundreds OF
thousands during the three months agony OF the provs-
ional government In the Rue Lepelleer, The cor
OF the Boulevard concocted the plan which
gave her new and shorYed republic TO France. And
the same Boulevard witnessed the deed which put end
10 the same republic, and bids fair 10 restore The
empire - PARIS letter, Oet. 10.