New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-11-13

amiability, the butchers baker, and people are q,
.words' points nth the Government.
On the Pace dg Trdne We passed regiment OF
soldiers coming in from VincenDes. Mary ofthen
were besrdless, soft checked boys, learning their
first steps 70 sevastopoL Tits sad to see those
peasant youth, wearing still the ruddy brown
brought from their quie. homes, ht'ed into sol
dier's gear with aim az q certain doom IN the
present war The cOnscnption ls well called me
peass2is' nightmare The rich may buy OF their
sons but the poor have hope bat IN the virgin
But al this merits treatment from more graphic
pen than that hold. We off q meet new recruits
IN Paris. coming from the railway stations so
green and swk@ ard in ID -ir uniforms, often walk
irg tender footed 10 their soldier shoes, some look
inc m grand in their little dignity Of gun and KNAPP
ssel while Others seem 10 think OF something left
behind One Of those yeuDgliDgs came here little
while ago TO bid bis sisrer, one Of the servants,
sdieu. he was off for the war, all flushed With
pride. Now VictoriDe is in mourning for him.
shall never forget how she tore of her cap and
held her face 10 her hands when she heard the SAD
news But We follow the sol1ers too far from the
BsTriere du Tr0De.
The various ell frances 70 Paris vie with each
other in elegance. AL have some architectural
pretensions but the BsrTiere du Irone and the
Arc de- TEtoile rival earh other in grand .ur o.
preston both occupy elevated sites and cOmmacd
majestic approaches TO the city. The latter inter-
cepts the way from Neuilly and the B)s de
BoulneDe TO the Chsnps tlysees and The T1ileries
and is al patrcian In position; the latter Is all
plebeisn ard revolutionary in a-socatOn-ts islands
between VIncennes and the FsubJurg st Antoine.
7 he gates Of the Barriere du TrCne are ianked By
OctIO Offices beside these rise lofty columns sur
mounted, ole By ST. Louis, the other b. Philippe
Augus,e. Louis and Philippe combined parpetd-
ate TIE nsue Of the KOg who raised the statues.
From this barrier long. wide, straight avenue
leads on three or four miles 10 Vlnc-nnes. All
the way we could look back 70 Paris. The towers
Of Notre Dame msgnifed by the mOrniog haze,
rOse between the cOluDDs Of ST. Louis and
Philippe Auguste; sometimes ray of light
twiDkled OF the spire of the Sante Chapcle.
The great kings seemed placed there on purpose 10
overlook their immortal structures. But orr
route soon Interested US as much az the mOnu-
ments of the fading city We saw scarcely phi
vate csrrisge, but great loads of hay ted up in
little buDdles grain, stone tor pavements, and
carts of wood nicely piled, each little stick marked
on the ED with chalk, formed long lines moving
on to the all consuming ely. Following Us were
numbers of carts which had Deposited their con-
tents at the early morning market These we're
driven all by women, who looked sleepy and tired
m7By DoddDg as their horses logged home. Be
side the handkerchief on the head these women
usually wear another bright checked one around
the neck, pinned down exactly in the middle be-
hind, and crossed and fastened at the two corners
over the breast in front ALI looked tidy, and some
showed aD edge Of clean white linen around the
throat Their coifiures hd the hair, except a lew
pipe.stem curls, and gave great relief 10 their
burned brown faces.
The long straight avenue which We had followed
found its first curve at the fortress of Vincennes
and our own musings, too, wound around these
Notifications of the middle ages. Only one of the
nine great towers which once fsnked the fortress
now remains. Before it is a drawbridge which
leads across fosse that surrounds the fort AS
We came bach by moonlight, we admired again the
grim giant, and regretted the eight Others which
have been destroyed in sacrifice to modern princi-
pies OF fertilization. The famous doDjon stands
within the cOurt-anOther fort within fOrt-in-
trenched by its own fosse and approached by its
own drawbridges.
What Titanic grandeur the moons of the middle
ages saw in these massive piles of defense Then,
high loOP-hOled walls connected the nine outer
towers around the doDjon and outside all, in the
encireling iOsse flowed water forty feet in depth,
and twice as wide as deep. Then, wondrous
mSjesty presided everywhere, even when the stern
towers stood under arms in silence. Bat imagine
all infamed with rage and fre-the place lost and
won, as by the English under Henry VI. and you
have picture of the hOstilities of olden tunes
which existed between the French and their pres
ent allies.
Philippe Auguste and Saint Louis, who still
overlook the fortress, first frequented the region
of VinceDnes The former surrounded the forest
with thick walls and constructed therein hotel
in which he found repose from the pleasures of the
chase. Louis X, called Saint Louis, visited often
this MANOR and according to the nslf JOinville,
" The gold saint, after he had heard mass in Sum
" mer went into the wood of Vincenne', and there
" sat down at the foot of an OAK and made us all
" sit down around him. And all those who had
" affairs with the King came and spoke to him
" without any bussar or other one to prevent.
Charles the Bel and Henry Y Of England died
at NDcennes Philippe Of Vaois built the dom N
and Charles the chapel of the fortress. Louis
N war pleased 10 add Embellishments 10 the place,
and de voted the dODjOn ~ the victims OF bic ferO
cous tyranny. Succeeding mOnsrehs seeglei
averse 10 living beneath the ZANE roOf e. tteif
prisoners Of State, and .Ought rVysl re,lde.ee,
elsewhere. But Charles TX tUrLsd b&ck y ~
home OF his ancestOrs dragging ttitheY re u H.,
chOly, and found sOlhce u the sDlslnB sheVfty -
YDceDres There be terrirs,e1 IL ia ~. Dys-
sobed BY the homicide day u e. Dsr.aDlsg4s".
Louis XIII added u the new cOnstruc,.0as VI
Marie d Medicis who had great affection fof tie
foItre.s and its palace. Louis XIV c0myletd lie
designs Of bic father, but they o1ersd fesidenss
i'll suited 10 the tsstes Of the young kiog the
tcmbs Of bic sDce,tDrs were ~ betr; tue tOsefs
OF -. Denis were ever in sigtt, and 20 uprOs.
Versaes
The frequent oyourn Of kings at the ebaiesu did
not deprive the doD!on Of lie odious celebrity.
From the time Of Louis " il had beeu prison u
state; during tie Frobde the great COnit Wa.
pritOuer here, wtOse pastme wss u tend ,he
fowers Of ito gardens and renee Nile Scuderi 10
tlluson 10 CoDct 10 her yerses cites POLIO as one
FL gagged in warfare aud begs ne BOT % be aston
sbed in seeing here Mars e. gardner. Here, too,
the last Of the COBctS-the last OF that race who
would hold rank intermediate between angels