Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-06-18

ing q thousand feet along the garden
front, could not have been instantly
enveloped in flames by the accidental
explosions Of projectiles. 1t is more
likely, IS one account informs US, that
the reIeating Communists set it on
fire with petroleum.
The fate of the Tuileries has been
shared by the Palais de la Quai dor
say and the Hotel of the Legion Of
Honor. The former building was one
Of great magnificence. 1t lay along
the bank of the Seine, just opposite
the Tuileries, and was erected in the
time of the first Napoleon at cost OF
more than two millions of dollars.
The Hotel OF the Legion OF Honor was
less extensive, but was interesting as
a pre- revolutionary editice.
Another considerable pile OF build
iugs that has been burned to the
ground is the Palais Royal. This for
mer residence Of the notorious Egalite,
more recently the residence Of Jerome
BOnaparte, with its long lines OF shops,
its WOrld.famous cafes and re5tau-
rants, and its pretty gardens, is prob
ably as well known to Americans who
have visited Paris as any other resort
/ Of the metropolis. We can hardly be-
lieve that the whole of the Palais
Royal has been consumed, though
such is the general assertion Of the
telegraphic cable.
No definite information has reached
US of the effect of the artillery and
musketry fire upon the houses and
streets that were most exposed to it.
But we may well suppose that tBe
splendid railway stations. the Pan
theOn, the Luxembourg, the fountains
and statues of the Place de la Con-
cOrde, the Grand Opera House, and
the noble cOlOnnade Of the Rue de
RiVoli, have all been sadly marred in
their beauty.
Such have been the devastatiOns of
! the strife in Paris. 1t is pleasanter to
sum up what we may reasOnbly hope
has been saved.
First Of all, the truly great library
| in the Rue Richelieu, Royal, Imperial,
National, as it has been called with
/ every change Of government, has sus-
/ tanned no injury whatever, so far as
we have learned. Then the great
works Of art of the gallery OF the
| Louvre and the Louvre itself, older
than the Tuileries, and yet present
/ ing in exquisite relief the sculptured
windows Of Jean GOnjOn. Then, the
modern school of painting represent
ed in the Gallery Of the Luxembourg,
and the priceless collection OF the
! EcOle de Medicine, the SOrbOnne, and
| the Jardin des Plantes (the last named
| containing the preparations Of Cuvier),
| on the southern bank of the Seine. The
| lovely Tour de st. Jacques still stands
| with its statue Of Pascal; the towers OF
| NOtre Dame still rise above the island
| of LaCite; the Hotel de Vile has not
! been burned, as NJ. Theirs announced
to the Assembly; under the dome OF
/ the Invalides is yet enshrined the
! dust Of Napoleon I. in his pOrphyry
! sarcOphagus, and we should not for
! get that the sweet, medieval Sainte
/ Chapelle in the Palais de Justice,
! whose irised windows have remained
| with no single pane broken for centu-
| ries, aDd which is worth the voyage TO
! EHrOpe to see, has not been leveled
! by the Commune or demolished by
the fire Of their assailants.
! 1t may be said then with confidence
! that what was most valuable and in.
teresting in Paris has been preserved
In the rapid glances we have taken OF
the smOke-cOvered city we have leil
| out Of the consideration the waste
places Of the once smiling and verdanl
Bois de BOUlOgne. But the devasta'
tiOn Of this pleasure ground was inev
liable in the siege OF Paris by the
Germans; and this was but the for
| tune Of war"