The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1878-05-18
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down Rue DIES Italiens. The cafes chant
ants, theaters and public gardens are
nightly thronged with visitors. The threat
that there shall be no Exposition has been
publicly made, and there are thousands in
Paris to-day who believe it will never take
place; meanwhile the preparations go rap
idly forward, the Republic being anxious
to show the world that it can eclipse the
glory of the Empire.
No representation yet given to the public
can give even "a remote idea of the grandeur
of some of the Exposition buildings, the
magnificent structure on the Trocadero
being especially grand and imposing.
In the main building on the Champ-de- Mars,
the portion erected by the municipality
of Paris will be exceedingly beautiful and
costly; much remains to be done; at the
time of the opening there will be many de-
partments Incomplete, but from present APP
pearances | should judge that the exhibit
ton is likely to be wonderful success.
There is only one thing that can initiate
against it, and that is the same thing that
killed the Exhibition at Vienna, namely,
the desire of the people to fleece all the rest
of the world. Everything seems to have
taken sudden and terrible rise; every man
or woman who has a couple of rooms to let
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months and then retire from business.
Thousands of people are pouring in here
from every portion of the world. On the
Champs EIysees of an afternoon you can
see every variety of costume from the pig
tail of a Chiuaman to the furs of a Lap
lander. Just now Spring is ended and
Summer about to begin, and all OF the lovely
outdoor gardens with their brilliant and
attractive entertainments are nightly
thronged with thousands upon thousands
who appear to think that life was made for
nothing but pleasure. Go where you will,
however, the guard house and the barrack
stare you in the face, behind which dwells
the power which keeps all in peace and
order. Soldiers meet you at every turn,
policemen guard every corner, the velvet
glove scarcely hides the iron hand beneath
it. They are wise men who govern France
now, aye and good men too: they know that
authority is only respectable as long as it
has the power behind it 10 enforce its de-
cree
The Champ de- Mars spot selected for the
site of the great Exhibition is rich in the
grandest associations that cluster around
the Kingdom, the Empire and the Republic.
Away back in the twilight of time, tradition
informs us that the Druids here held their
sacrificial rites, and later still the Romans
udu mere GItCtSu d W tiicll SOO,
the foundation of which was nearly on the
site of the present EcoleMilitaire. 1t was
here that Attila encamped with his savage
Huns, and from the brow of the hill looked
down on the infant city, then on the little
island in the middle of the Seine. whose
destruction he meditated and whose capture
he anxiously hoped. Here a magnificent
review was held on the occasion of the
marriage of Henry of Navarro with the
sister of King Charles the Ninth, and on
the night of the terrible massacre of Saint
Bartholomew in 1916, it was here that
band of Huguenots, under Jean Pierre
Lescure, made their last desperate stand,
and fought till the blood of the last hero
Redeemed the angry waters of the Seine.
When the Revolution opened the
Champ de Mars was favorite meeting
place for the multitude. 1t was in front of
the Eeole- Miltaire that the unfortunate
Louis the Sixteenth took the new Constitu-
tion,-the same constitution by which a
few months after he was condemned to the
scaffold. On that occasion Talleyrand
officiated as bishop of Autun, assisted by
four hundred priests, and over 1901 600
persons witnessed the ceremony In 1890
over sixty thousand Parisans gave their
gratuitous labor for several weeks in level
ing the grassy slopes and raising the en-
bankments that formed the Champ de Mars.
Here the First Napoleon took the oath to
another constitution which was scattered
to the winds on the proclamation of the
Empire. During the brilliant years that
followed Napoleon's assumption of the
purple, army after army was encamped
here, the most magnificent military pageant
ever seen in France, being the departure of
the Grand Army for the invasion of Russia.
In 1880, it was here Louis Phillip dstrib-
sd l,.- l,
and in 1852 the last Emperor, Louis Napo-
leon, presented to the army the Eagle stand
ards which had been carried by his uncle
triumphant over Europe. In 1870, Louis
Napoleon held here his last review assuring
his soldiers of an easy victory over the
enemies of France, and he led them out
amid the vivas of thousands to see his last
hope extinguished in blood on the disas-
trous field of Sedan. Let US hope that the
peaceful use to which it is dedicated now
may be the dawn of better day for France;
a day of peace and prosperity and rest
when the sword shall be beaten into the
plough share and the spear head into reap
ing hook, and men shall learn the art of
war no more. A person who has been
absent from Paris for twenty years will
scarcely know it. Many of the old streets
have entirely disappeared, and in their
places grand avenues and boulevards have
been cut, fit for the abode of kings. These
improvements have been carried out at
frightful cost and the result is the most
beautiful city and the most enormously
taxed city on the face of the earth. France
is gay, but she dances under the weight OF
national debt, that would create a
revolution in England or in the United
States. Easter Sunday was holiday of
course, which they celebrate by keeping the
shops open as usual. In the midst of this
general desecration of the Sabbath | was
glad to see one Christian exception on the
boulevard ltaliens, and his name was
Simon Levy. Simon kept his shop shut on
Sunday; for this all honor to Simon Levy
Passing down by the Point Neuf, my at
tention was attracted by the novel sign of a
midwife. Just outside the door was painted
horn OF plenty, and out of it come tum
bling head over heels hundreds of bright
little cherubs suggestive of the happiness
that awaited anyone who would be fortunate
enough to secure her services. Feeling
hungry one evening | wandered into a
restaurant on Rue de Bonnie Nouvelle, and
among other French luxuries that |
ordered for my dinner l thought I'd Just
take piece OF roast beef, the first mou h
full of (which convinced me that had mistak
en- my shop and that had ordered my dinner
in one of those cafes where broiled horse i
considered positive luxury now. | don't
know that have anything against horses
in general, only l don't banker after them
as articles of diet. A horse is all very VI ell
under the saddle or in harness, but in a
stew he is not good, the prejudice, to be
sure, may be unworthy of philosopher
but am not used to it and that is a great
deal. The English and American exhibits
promise to be very fine, the English com
mission buildings being among the hand
soonest on the ground. Yours, truly,
BRoADBRIM.
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