Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1878-09-28
MORE OF PARIS.

But the Exposition, with all its
attractiveness, does not interest me
so much as Paris itself; there are
so many places of beauty and ele-
gance scattered all through the city.
Everything in the way of public
improvements and buildings and
objects for public display show a
magnificence of conception and exc
cution such as never saw equaled
elsewhere. The Arc de TriOmphe,
the Champs Elysees, Place de la
Concorde, Garden of the Tuileries
palace of the TuilerieS now in
ruins), picture and statuary galleries
Of the Louvre, Invalides, tomb of
Napoleon, Cathedral of NOtre Dame,
Church OF the Madeleine, ObeliSk
of Luxor, Palace and galleries of
the Luxembourg, Palace of the
BOurbOns (nOW in ruins), Park
Moncean, Pere la Chaise, Palace
and Garden of st. Cloud (palace in
ruins), Grand Palace of Versailles,
Trianon Palace and Park of Yer
sailes, grand opera building (cost
500, 900, ,00O), the Seine with the deep
blue waters, elegant quays and mag
nificent bridges, as it winds around
through Paris, with its fast little
steamers plying its Waters-all these
and a great deal more make of Paris
the most attractive city of the world.
The Arc de Triomphe Is. an Inn
mense stone double archway struct-
ure 1872 feet high, 157 feet wide and
72 feet thick, erected to cOmmem-
crate some of NapoleOn's most
memorable battles said to be the
largest and finest structure of the
kind in the world. The different
sides haye carved in the stone rep
reservations of different battles. 1t
cost over 100000. 1t is situated
on high eminence in the city and
from its summit you get a magniti-
cent view of the city of Paris. Sur
rounding this Arc de TPiOmphe is a
large open SPACE bordered by shade
trees from which radiate in all di-
rectiOns twelve magnificent aVen-
ues, ranging in width from 100 feet
to 300 feet each and there are a
great many other avenues, bOule-
wards and streets, lined with shade
trees, runnig all through the city in
every direction. The avenues and
bOulevards usually have from two to
four rows of shade trees running
their entire length usually side
walk of from ten to fifteen feet wide,
then two rows of shade trees in a
space of twenty to thirty feet wide,
then a street proper from one hun
dred to one hundred and fifty feet
wide, then two more rows OF shade
trees and the other sidewalk.
The avenue Champs Elysee is
the most magnificent street of any
city in the world. 1t starts off from
the Arc de deTriOmphe with the street
proper about two hundred feet wide,
besides its two rows of shade trees
on each side, occupying some thirty
feet each, and then its sidewalks
about twenty feet each runs mile
in length. Along the last One-third
of a mile the shade trees are some
twelve rows on each side of the
street, a small park, as 1t were, the
Palace of Industry and Panorama OF
Paris on one side of the street and
the Palace of the Elysee on the
other side. The Palace of Industry
is an immense building where are
exhibited modern paintings and
sculpture. The Panorama is an in
stitution of Paris. You stand in the
center of a circular building, upon
whose concentric floor and part of
the wall is painted the "Siege of
Paris by the Prussians" in 1870.
The light and shades and surround
ings are calculated so nicely and the
illusion so perfect that you actually
seem some five hundred feet above
the central part of Paris, with a
bird's-eye view of the siege as it
actually transpired-a marvellous
representation. The Palace of the
EIysee is one of the State palaces, 1T
present occupied by President Mac
Mahon. The farther end of the
Champs Elysees terminates at the
Place de la COncorde, a large open
space about / 200 feet in diameter,
in the center of which stands an
Egyptian monument, the Obelisk
of Luxor, Egyptian figures carved
ON all sides of the monument. 1t