The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-07-06

| dCtuAd meaning. boul6VarQS, 10 U
brief, whatever It originally meant
has now come to signify any thor
oughface thanked by trees. Thu
streets of Salt Lake City, or most o.
them, are therefore Boulevards, ant
indeed there is striking similarit,
between them, both in. width anG
beauty Of appearance, and the mos
fashionable thoYoughfares of TIT
French capital. Stopping at the
Church of st. Mary Nagdalene, Of
as it is tersely caKed the Madeleine
a superb classic edifice which dates
from the year 1894, although 1t was
not finished until 1912, we are taken
through the interior, have pointed
out to us its various features of note
and on returning to the outside,
are shown where the insurgents OF
the commune in 1871, during the
civil war which succeeded the seige
of Paris, erected their barricade and
with cannon and mitrailleuses Op.
posed the advance of the army OF
Versailles. The sacred ediace at
this stormy period, was in immin-
ent danger. The barricade extended
right acrsss the Rue Royale, imme-
diately in front Of the church which
fortunately escaped without mate
rial injury, while many Of the ad-
joining houses were burned down
and others seriously injured by shot
and shell. When the government
troops finally prevailed, hundreds
of the insurgents, who had sought
sanctuary within the church, were
put to death on the spot. The Place
de la Coneorde, the next locality
visited, is said TO be, aud evidently
With good reason, the finest pIQee
in all Europe. 1t lie at the terminus
OF that celebrated and magnificent
thorOughfare, the Champs Eiysees,
and Immediately adjacent TO the
garden OF The Tuileries. The centre
Of the "place" is adorned by the
0Aelisk Of Luxor, companion mon
tlith 10 Cleopatra's needle
Gn the Thames embankment
rising frUm the midst ef an elabor.
ate fountain. The Obelisk was
placed there by King Louis PHILIPPE.
Surrounding, though at some dis
lance away, are sight ane feminine
statues, representing the principal
towns Of France. One Of these,
that Of StFasbarg-RoW held by the
GermauE-is gentiRGntAlly draped
in black and severed with fnnereal
Wreaths, D continual reminder to
the passing popNlacS Of their late
humiliation and defeat, and perhaps
melting them to . prospective re-
RsWal Of hostilitiOS aRd the rscOV-
cry OF their captured provinces. The
site Of she Place de la ConcOrde has
tragic history. Here it was that,
On the S0th Of May, 1910, at a dis.
play of fireworks to celebrate the
marriage Of Louis XVI, then DaH-
phin Of France, with the Austrian
princess, Marie Antsinotte, during a
panic which arose from SEINE Nnex-
planned eause-no doubt quite
as trivial rs that at the Brook
Ign bridge twelve hundred
persons we're crushed to death or
suRoeatsd and 1900 seriously in
jured. Here it was, too, that the
gulllotine was erected II. 1893, oecu-
plying the very spot now covered by
the 0belisk, and durlng the January
of that year and the month Of May.
1895, upwards Of 1900 persons were
there decapitated. Among the
earliest victims were the iIl-starred
LSuis XVI. and his unhappy queen.
It was here that the allied armies,
at the time when all Europe rose
up to crush one man, made
their encampment in 1914.
In the following year a
portion OF the British army,
after battle Of Waterloo. did the
same, and last Of all it was here
that the German troops were sta
toned in 1871, after the capituiation
of Paris.
TFaversing the beautiful avenue
ofthe Champs ElYsees, and passing
on our. way the Palais de Elysee, Tie
official residence pro tenn of the
president of the republic, and sue.
cessiYely the former tenement of
such noted characters Madame de
Pompadour, DucheSse de Bourbon,
Murat, Napoleon l., Louis Bona
parte and Queen HOrtense, Emperor
Alexander L. DUO de BerTi, NapO-
leon Ill, and the Emperor Wilhelm
the identical place where Louis
Napoleon, then president of the
French republic in 1851, planned
his famous coup 6'et0t-Onr carriage
next halts in the Rue de Berri at the
building which contains the grand
panorama of the battle Of Cham
pignY, one Of the most wonderful
paintings of the age, The piano.
rama is circular but stationary.
The visitor occupies. a central plat
form around which the canvas con-
tanning the picture extends, at a dis
lance of eleven yards from the
point of observation. The great
success of this panorama is due, not
only 10 its immensely, but to its life
like vividness and power Of illusion.
Tie perspective of the picture is so
finely wrought, and the intervening
space between it and the be
holder so realistically arranged with
bona tide objects, such as broken
drums, knap-sacks, discarded Weap-
ons and other warlike requirements
and the line of demarcation, where
the real objects end and the paint
nsarnfn1itU