New-York daily tribune., 1854-03-15
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We took orr coffee and hurried away the sisEon the
r,re garote ard took places for RamboGllet Ths
epgi,e wbeezed whistle and whred u OF after the
/ rer Of all i's kind.
One does no, feel he has really been il Paris I'll; he i
filv out ofi Her. distaacs leads enchslin q;
70 tho view and ou Eel tie beauty tho grandeur Of th
,ucus of the world from ihs visws you Of on
eft bank railway from verssiss It, morunens loon Ep
% ,cnslr Gifts eonqaesi its cvz i;s defa The
Arc DE- Etoe-triumpha arch Ok Napo orke IL oaoier
stands lsad ard .houlGers s -oEs The dones Of
the InvaIdes and the Pantheon whisper their good WORKS
The .kies Notre Dame and the Tailelies mogrnfaL
ro gry tel tales Of co0onaoas rss;oraons reyOutoos
and desc, ratio1s TIE Champs Eysets-thriy yeAr AZ
The tfTor Of Chrisanare the French Elysisn
fsIds The Place De Ia Concordedur ng the f-st revol
ton sosked with the blood Of the victims Of Marat aud Ro-
besritrre and from which up curing the days Of
def ing vGrorous senchis the gayest the hand-
somes place H. tie world The column Luxor takes the
place Of the Guotne Of Loui- XVI and around il inst al
of an inuriaed popasce stand monuments of the great
cities Of France.
Change only is constant Won <ou'd e1claim bat for the
Sene the royal the oh-rished the lnna,abe Seine Un
red .he drses her lazy length along between he Quays
The city toward her and she sends back filtered
wa'er to the homes OF her friends Sometimes she has
blu,hed With the blood Of her neigbbors and hid hen
in heaps beneath her brrsst Giving and receiving
blEt 70 her. IL mhcCn lOVe l. pNEntel she
obyious a. ms OF the Seine II broker plays 100 loosely
at the Bourse she tlls bin he born be drowned She
is the pa Of the poor the soace of the ac,
ed the toy the JOY of this great gay city Unlike the
Thsmes she bears her breast great ships thunder
ing Of Steamers but che has pretty b4'hng
houses and swimming schools and pleasure boats and
sDd then 70 carry you into the country and the latest
nove.y steamer which between London and
PeIis sea bird follow cd last week, and the Paris
4 II.
made its arrival an event of history And perhaps
body will write another Ancient Mariner about II.
This sene is cofed with fine arthed bridges ami she
tetns always elegantly leisure that YOU wonder how
sLe i. able to live 30 G. nicely and naturally as Yankee
you inquire " her means ard what her income is aud
how size gets her iviig In fsct he only ladies maid
She desses her mistress AID holds the Mirror o her aud
her mistress milner and nsker and has large
interest in a knck knack establishment which monopO
s,s he word II is curious ooberve tina; her employers
70 democratic in their laws snd lives manufacture only for
oristocrtc people while English ciCs - rich and 20 srs
ocrofc make cotton cloths and wooden cloths raise pgs of
iron and order Goals and al of nedu things for the
poor enobt Of the earth and send their O-ds and ladies'
TO France for their laces, sik- velve's and jewes
Ihe Sene neGnders thoughts into oil regions OF It's
roaming ways Whin IFS embrace is the island Of the
Cie s cathedral the Paais dc Justice the Sain,e
CtarVtle and the MoreGe 90 Is right hand sits Ia ellie
with lis palaces lie bouey ards ani is merchants On the
le is the estc Faubourg s. German with il. nobility
ard and minister Of st,e And the URirersE
OF Lstn Quarter with its Wild students colleges and all
its supremacy OF leaIni & Its right hand knoweth not
what lfi hand o,th marked i the separation-yet
Ia rtN, Ia cite Ftriferslc one, the only Pars
We are wLirlng by the lovely PaEk Of ST Cloud, and
While eeayes away catch glmpses Of and
statues And thsn there fields ~hlte and Alter
ing tn sheets shirts and linen unmentionsbles We pass
among tie vine clad hills of France" which you have
read OF and imagined to be green slope shadowed with
irelied vines and hargiDg down with purple frui, Now
they only fields of undulaog earth with heaps poles
lying here shc there perhaps standing in their last
year, pleces and in You would find the French
vnsy ards Ices handsome than hop field aud not much
q fitrrg from large lot Of climbing beans.
Within three quarters of an hour before the black
front of the Palace of Versailles The memories of the
past IFS guards and strangers s pictures
s only tenants. Its superb gardens give their
ftos and servants soldiers and he bourgeois Of Paris
welcome to them The br liant days of that monarch
whose embm the sun have set in darkness and the
roy mgnifcence gitierpg show aod hundreds of
tiers that assisted at his entertainments the
my tbs of the past the isl- of the Araba Nights
broad sheet of water reflects this shadowy presence
Its walls its statues terraces fountains groves and gar
deIs they but it Is ghosty splendor The
life gone out the glory and the dream departed Ba
sins Of arranged round French p4acea like mir
in apartment 10 multiply their greatness and double
their beauties.
judge abstracy whether not the country along
this two hours railway beautiful but to me it full Of
neret Modern French law requires property be equally
divided among the severa children who may be heirs 50
ftudel landlords must disappear and approximate equal
b of wealth i'll ensue This for the shreds Of farms
which stretched out on each side Of our way sometins
not than two rods wide. These strips,
of vegeables grassy now black from the plow,
whiIled round and round Ike the rad of wheel
hurried by them
Tall Lombardy popars-so ignoble in England yet in
mortszed by Turner in his views OF the Sese-stOod
senlnels of the landscape Hedges nterlaced the feis,
or shepherds and watch dogs looked after the Aoeks
Gardens neOsed by high pas;ered walls trellsed for
vines Women worked in the fields and it il common to
them their knees beside stsgnant pond pounding
and rinsng clothes In Tie villages they Pile the wet
hntn a oolkeys back and send to the fields to be
dried
We passed st Cyr Here was the school famous being
founded by Madame Mainenon for the education Of the
daughters Of mobiles ruined in fortune by the OF The
latter par; Of the reign Of Louis XIV AZ the Revolution
the order Of Who superntended his school dis
pised and Ler property ccnfscaed sId the building final
y tppropratCd for military school Racine wro.e Esther
and Athale for 4 gUls Of st Cyr But how could Racine
lIdl rip talents make the pastme Of boarding school
nsesl Mad Naironon requesedt and she he secret
spouse OF the Kirg Though Mol. e refused Christian
buIs because be wrote plays, ard actor Racine
in dramang sacred story TO b. guile the enDu Of con
v.nt school crowned bis fame by Of the pures;
OF the Frnch stage. Esth, Get amusem.ut Infants
as s sGthor called Il viii be the dtIght Of all age. and
though Notaire rIouousced phisene "le chef Guyre
On theatre be oad Athsiie le chef deuvre De esprt