Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1864-03-16
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A SUMMER In EUROPE.
NO. xxx.
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LOUvRe-nOTEL DE VILE


e'ting quarter OF the city 1t stand, on the
brond Rue Rivoli, overlooking the gardens t,f
the Tulleries, aud few minutes wulk to the
Ugh As we came out, would brins US to ths
Placa de- Ia Uoneorde and The Champs Blyses,
while 3 few minutes in the opposite direction.
would bring Us to the Palaces of the ruile-
riss and the Louvre. The Place de Ia Cow
cordr. is . smooth, open square Of about
thirtesn acres, intervening bstws,n the pal
acs gardens aud the broad avenue above
mcntioned, as the Champ, Ey,ee. ItwAs
in this space that the merciess guillotne was
erected in 1913 which drank the blood ss
twenty.eight hundred Of the best people of
the nation in less than year sud half
! sparihg neither age, sex nor condition. It
took tbs head OF Louis XVI, one oC the gen.
tlest AMI most harmless kings the country
ever had, and of his proud and beautiful
| Q Ieen, Marie Antoinetts. When its appetite
tor the blood OF royalists was satisfied, the
JacObns fed 1t with that Of of5irondists--ibe
democrats Of tbnse days who were for liberty,
bat Tor liberty regulated by aw--ths illustri
Gus Yerguiaud srd his companions, and then.
like hungry wolves, they turned upon each
other aud sent their leaders, Desmonlins, Ro-
| bespierre, DAnton, and Hebert, to meet the
same fate. On the spot where il stood, n
beautiful fountain Of mpid water ia now for
ever flowing, as if to wash away the blood
stains from the place and the memory Of
them from the minds OF the people. Hare il
was that during a celebra tiou and discharge
OF fireworks, apsnie occurred among the
people, and twelve hundred we're crushed
to death and here occurred that butchery of
the revoIutionist,, when they attacked the
convention, which marked the entrance Of
the besrdless Napoleon upon his dazzling
career. II struck me as singular fact that
| could find no FrenchmAn who would tel
me anything about this bloody affair. They
don't choose now TO remember, that their
idoliz.d First Emperor, gained his first ind..
pendent command, by a savage slaughter of
his own countrymen -ths citizens of Paris
Returning from the Place de Ia Concprde,
We pass along the sRus Rivoli by the high
iron fence which excludes US, but not our
eyes, from the gardens We reach, after short
walk, the palaces Of tho Tuileres and Louvre.
They were originally separated by space OF
quarter Of a mile, but within the last fifteen
years they have been connec ed The space
between them is broad court, once called
tho Place du CarrOusal; where The great
tournaments took place in the days OF chival.
ry, and where the Grand Army was reviewed
prior 10 its departure for Moscow bad no
card of admission and did not know whether
the palace was open or not, and stepped
into little picture shop to enquire.
The lady in attendance said yes, visitors
were sdmitted, /" and asked, "have you tick
etH' Upon my replying mo" she said she
would take great pleasure in supplying me il
would permit her. took it, aud a "merci,"
was all that could pay for it, Is there an
other city in the world in which stranger
would receive such courtesy in s1eh wayi
TRo brobEed soldiers in the ZouAve uniform
stood leaning upon their musketoons as the
door Of the Palace, bat passed iu unehallsn.
ged. gave the card 70 iveried servant Al the
head Of the grand staircase, which Willis saws
is 50 grand as to make any man but a Napo.
leon feel and look small when ascending il,
and With herd Of sight seers, made the
round OF the State apartments opened to the
public. They are as beautiful as gold and
silk and damask and velvet, bestowed with ir
reproaohabls tasls, can make them looked
uutl my eyes wers satisfied, and until nv
feet were weAried, with the walking over the
glass like floors and then sat down on an OF
toman to think Catherine de Medeis, the
per6dious and cruel queen, three Hundred
years ago began this magnificent structure.
and since then, it has been the drii prize FOR
which Fevolutohisis have s,riyeA, aad the
arena Of some flhs most exciting struggles
in the history Of the nation. In Juae, 1892.
ths mob made their first deuaobstratiop
againsi il and in tWo months after. murdered
IN il the brave and devoted Swiss Guards OF
the King IL 1880, they again drove out
the king and also in 1913. when party Of
rioters, with their female companions, oceu.
pied and profaned the most magnificent
rooms Of the palace with their baechanal
and obscene orgies One Of their number.
wounded in the attack, they placed upon the
Throne Of France, and the boy there breathed
cut his lie Running back slin further into
the past remembered with shndder. that
= brilliant tete was in progress here with ali
the delights Of music and dancing and wine
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