Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-04-28
Correspondence of the Evening journal.

Correspondence of the Evening Journal
PARIS, April 1862
The bright sun and spring like weather rem.
der Paris very beautiful. The Champs de
Eysees and Wood of Boogne attract crowds
OF every rank and class, from the emperor to
the peasant. should fail in any attempt to
describe the beauties OF the Wood of BoOgne,
forest four or five miles in circumference,
laid out and adorned at great expense and ex-
quislte taste.
The tirsl Napoleon's tastes were more men
tai. He adorned Paris with trophies of victo-
ry such as the Column of Vendome, the
Arch of Triumph, the Obelisk of Luxor, &C.
Napoleon Ill is more practical, seeking to i'm
PROVE as well as to adorn Paris. His reign
will be distinguished by reforms and progress
France, under his auspices, has been rising
and improving in its agricultural, manufactur.
ing, and commercial pursuits and resources
while Paris is becoming the most beautiful
city in the world. The opening and improve.
ment OF streets is progressing upon scale of
magnitude perfectly bewidering. For exam
pie, the Boulevard Sebastopol cut through
the heart of the city, extends from the Port
St. Dennis to Rue Rivo and is already built
up with palatial grandeur This broad avenue
is connected with the Boulevard Strasbourg,
equally magnificent, ending at the Strasbourg
railway station.
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erlng more than an acre and a half, and cast.
ing the hotel Louvre into the shade, has risen
almost as by magic. Perhaps the best idea
may be given OF this hotel by saying that it
is larger than The castor" the "St. Nicholas"
and the Metropolitan" together, would BE-
Adjoining this hotel, three acres of buildings
have been demolished, preparatory to the
erection OF an opera house.
Around The Hotel de Vile, more than two
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ground on which they stood to be thrown into
park. This will include the site of the
"Morgue," a place OF SO many unwritten his
tories OF misery and death. looked into this
receptacle OF the unknown dead yesterday.
The bodies of two wretched beings who had
"Shuffied off this mortal coil" lay there, wait
ing to be identified and claimed by some of
the hundreds who were constantly looking
into this dead house.
Nearly opposite the "Morgue," on the other
side of the Seine, and facing it, stands the
house long occupied by voltaire, and near il,
that in the fifth story of which the first Bona
parte resided when lie was a captain of arll
lery, in 1875. The present emperor has
placed a marble tablet in the wall, recording
this incident in the life of his uncle.
we went this morning to pay tribute of
affection and gratitude, to the tomb of Latay-
etie, who reposes in the cemetery of the Con
ven. of the Sacred Heart of Mary" This
cemetery is but short distance from the site
OF one OF the guillotines, in the days OF blood;
and the spot consecrated by tie remains of the
good Lafayette, contains the headleSs bodies
of thirteen hundred and sixty victims of the
revolution, that were thrown into a pit dug
for the occasion. 1t is now the abode Of peni.
tence, piety and peace. Some of the nuns
we're at their deVotions in the chapel, and
others were walking through the beautiful
gar dens. Tw.