Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1861-07-26
Cutrespondrnt
No. 25.
PARiS, FRAScr.
june 9TH. is6l

bAllt bLn, iNbl.
Since last wri,ins to the American W. have
taken a hasty jiarrey from the Eternal city
u the gay capital Of France our eyes have
fcastcJ on the risncs II the Italian country,
her churcAee. paintings. sculpture and paia-
cc<, as seynat Florence. Bologna and Milan
steamed over the Naggi1re Lake, crossed the
Alps By tie STINT Guthard PASS where you
SO mountains covered with snow and drive
through SHOW hanks twelve iyet deep, and
had the privilege OF visiting the house Of
William I'll at Alilrfaui seeing his Chapel
On Lake Lue-rne. - BY rad through SwIts-
crland t. Heidelberg down the Rhine, to
Cologne wher1 YOU can get the pure Co'oJR.
,edfcr, If You have money enough. From
Cologne we come u Paris, stopping On our
way to see Brussels and the battle field Of
Waterloo. where was fought that terrible
day Of june 18th, ISIS, the battla which
decided the fate of that General, who had
humb!ed the proudest kings on the C'nti-
neut aud given an impulse t9+t'reelom, which
is gradually undermining the power Of roy
atty, aud giving the people s5icc in the
different countries. Ii was a comtIrt 10 en-
ttr Paris ard find ourselves SO near America.
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Has Afeist a week in sight seeing,we will
gis pra.ders birds eye view Of beautl-
ful unded before the Christian Era
an eFs.a 81 b. c. by Julius Cesar
N(As,At Paris has "a circumference Of
(, sNIxHhHnilcs and an area Of nineteen
tn. !" hundred and eighty acres, and
frIs rch OF Notrc Dame, or rather
,,-.\AIDyers, let US take our stand and
spot where live a million and u
r. s]. The river Seine, noted for
~r.Zfrn rs in serpentlne course, and
- y ,wenty-three bridges, the city
- rh side. Napoleon tie
{sStths 10, upon this river, said.
hs,nas al Paris are only one city
an Of Is principal street.
rhsy.ySstthe eye meets the Gene
~eaosS beautifully situated on
D. Il 'e%ir ,t " which You find lawns
Z temples, maus'leurns, Iyra,
LA ,sRsks, al,arAsGi urns. Iron rail
ingysurround the most Of IN, in which
are flowers In this cemetery repos; Rachel
the actress, IIeloise arr +AbailaFd Moliere'
Beranger and Laplace. eqSl4 the Russians
biyouaeked here and ecu s'own many Of
the trees for fuel" Not far from Pere Ia
Chaisc is tn. Place Of the Bastiile, mem
orable sps M the Revolution of l7s9 on
this site is the Column Of July l5i feet high
dedicated 10 those french etlzms who on
the 27th, 2sth and goth of July 1880 fought
for the liberties OF their nation. 1t was
here that the throne Of Louis PhIllpp9
was burned on the 9th OF February, $50
the excited mob. In the west you notice
a building of most chaste architecture, and
it is the church of the Madeleine, begun in
l76i and in 1889 the works ceased and Ma
poleon 6fst determined it should lie Temple
OF Glory, but after his overthrow Louis
XVIII changed it to church. II has two
lronze doors on which are wrought illustra-
tions of the ten commandments. Beyond
this you see looming up in its gigantic pro-
portions, the triumphal Arch whose erection
Ms decreed in 1906, but it was not finished
uatil thirty years after that costing over two
millions of dollars On itare varied groups
in alto relieve. One represents the Genius oil
War sunmoniug all nations to their arms )
another is Victory crowning Napoleon a
scene of 1910. Z" Fame surmounts the
whole and History records his deeds-van-
quished towers are at his feet" We notice
an abestMrising up in the distance, and on
exami Alnse i :, amt II was brought from
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