The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-07-18

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NOTES FROM EUROPE.
An Aren't Paris.
NUMBER FIFTEEN.
PARIS, June 10th.
DEAR MorHKR. ! scarcely know where to
commence to give you description OF rams
there is so much that is worthy of note.
shall try to give you some idee Of the city
and is principal features, but do not feel very
confident that the result will be much OF
success. It reminds me Of story OF man
who undertook to describe to man born
blind, the color red. After much breath had
been spent in the attempt. the blind man
said he thought he had very good ides OF
it. and that the color red was very much like
the blowing Of trumpet.
This great city is about six and half miles
from East TO West, and FIVE and a-haf from
Noah to South, surrounded BY Fashioned wall
aud parapet between thirty and forty feet in
height, and The approaches to the city addi-
tionally defended by seventeen detached forts
placed at advantageous points without the
walls. There are eight hundred guns mount
ed, and in case of war two thousand more
could be placed in position.
The river Seine enters the city near the
Southeastern corner, runs to the centre and
masses out near the Southwestern corner,
Ii az throwing about three-fourths Of the city
on the Northern side Of the river. Very
near the centre Of the city, on the North bank
OF the Seine. stand the palaces OF the Tuili-
cries and Louvre, now nearly joined IN one !;
! project commenced by Napoleon lst and
about completed BY Napoleon Sd. The old
Louvre was about Ave hundred feet square
With an immense court in the centre. Nearly .
a half mile 20 the West stood the Tuilleries,
a long narrow building, thousand fcse in
length. pointing to the West. These two
palaces are now joined by an additional pals
ace'on the North side, and the one on the
Nosth side is nearly completed, so that the
f 9sr ss; hell mile in 1ssgth
upwards of sixty acres of ground. The in
terror Of this square forms the "Place de
| Csrrousal' in which stands the "Arc of Tri-
umph of the Place de Carrousal," familiar to
almost every one in pictures, and distin-
guished by the bronze horses and chariot
with which il Is surmounted. Streets of the
city pass under the North and South sides OF
this immense structure into the Place de
Carousal, and by bridges across the Seine so
that il is not an obstruction to commerce.
Directly West of the palace lies the garden
Of the Tuilleries, the same width as the pal
ace, and upv ards of half mile in length.
II is denssly shaded with horse chestnut
trees, {about like our Iowa buckeyes and
handsomely ornamented with fountains
place de Condordia,' where many
of the bloodiest scenes of French his
tory have been enacted. Two very large
fountains stand nearthe center. There stands,
on the spot once occupied by the guiilotine,
the obelisk OF Luxon, single stone weigh
ing two hundred and nifty tons, FIRST erected
by the Egyptians thirty four hundred years
ago. West Of the ''Place Concorde" lies
the Champs Elysies, or Elysan iields, beau
tiiully laid out and adorned with trees,
WALKS, grass, flowers, etc. The peculiar feat
nre Of the Champs Elysies, however, is,
think, the booths and stalls for the sale Of
various little fancy articles, swings, saloons,
puppet shows, circuses, and various other in
situations where the French amuse themselves
for little or nothing. On the north are some
very pretty little palaces, belonging to the
nobility and one to the Government. On
the south is the Palace of Industry, where
the former Worlds Fair Was held. and where
the Society of Fine Arts are now holding
their annual exhibition, there being about
four thousand oil paintings entered for COM
petition for the prizes, besides staiuary, ar
chitecturnl drawings, crayon pictures, en-
cravings, etc. Through the Champs Elysies
and q mile further west runs the Avenue des
Champs Elysies, between two and three hun
bred feet wide, with broad sidewalks adorned
with trees, to the "Arch de Triumph de
I Etoile," which is an immense arch, $50 feet
high, on top Of hill, which overlooks the
whole city and much Of the surrounding coun
| try. These palaces and public grounds con-
stitute, to my mind, the leading features of
| Paris, and when we consider that all these
public grounds and property lie in the heart
Of the city, covering, in oil, three or four
hundred acres Of land, it serves to convey an
| idea Of the grand scale on which everything
relating TO the city seems to be constructed
The Rue de Rivoli lies on the north side OF
the palace and garden of the Tuilleries, and
extends . long distance to the east. II is q
very attractive street, the houses being built
in the Italian style, projecting over the pave
ment, A few hundred feet north Of the
/ great palace Glands the Palais Royale 1t is
not at oil pretensions looking building. but
| is quite large, being thousand feet in length,
and enclosing public garden. The lower
stores are let out to shop keepers, the Prince
Napoleon occupying portion of the upper
hoors-
I On the south bank Of the Seine are the
Palaces Of Justice, the Legislature, the Le-
the Emperor. and among other magnificent
buildings, about . mile south Of the Louvre.
is the palace and garden Of the Luxembourg,
fine palace, with splendid garden attach.
ed, covering hundred acres or more. A
short distance east Of the garden stands the
Pantheon, fine church, with magnif-
icent dome and portico. Fronting
sPSn of IL psaheon a =. two e &. es
brsted schools of Paris and eli Of them in the
/, immsdiate vicinity. There are many Of them
and all Supported By the government, and in
manner which has put them st tbs head OF
the schools Of the world. Besides the various
schools 81 medicine which are numerous, and
the most celebrated. there are schools Of d.
pfomacy, execstivs government, legielstion,
mechanics, 6ne arts, ocean charts, dsaiGn,
law, modem, ancient and Eastern languages;
ntsie, 3eelamation, military ahairs, hofse
docsosing, the national sciences, and = 6cE
fessors in some Of the SCHOOLS. regret DIT
have not an estimate Of the number q
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