The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-12-24
TEE CITY or PARIS.
HllK0 ON nae GREAT B01LEllRDS
-Asubiect winch Never Loses Its Tas.
eination-.scensso Of Historic Inter.
est..How Horrible Things In the
city,s history Loom up..-shops and
oharae.eristtes Of the People:
4 oorragondns on a 1naagao5

on the great bouleyards has often been
described, but the subject haslost none.
Of lis fasc,nation for either the visitor
81 the reader, and as no two visitors
look az the scene from precisely the
same standpoint, or are impressed by
Just the same things, there is still a
chance for one who shall sketch this
scene from personal observation to
make his pictures both original and in-
teresting. BY the great bouleyards we
mean the streets bearing that name,
which we're constructed under Louis
XIV. and which extend in almost q
complete circle around what was for
marfy thelc city, their site having origin
ally been tie location Of the city ram.
parts. or Notifications. Outside OF these
fhereti Ia an~othercircleof boulevards,and'
tbfs circle marks the site OF the ram.
parts OF Parisafterthey had beenextend-
edlsoias to embrace the former supnrDs,
or Faubourgs. Still farther out be-
yondSthe Communes, and at the ex-
IRENE limits OF what is the Paris OF to.
day, are those bouleHards, so called.
which form,assort Of military roadltor
die massing 81. troops and the manning
andtyictualiing OF the mammoth de.
fenses'b BY which the Paris OF the future
hopesto protect itself, more etfectually
than Il did twenty.one years ago,
against any possible incursion OF the.
armies OF Kaiser William. Thus, the
CITY has an abundance Of b%ouleyards,
and one is tempted TO remark, spropos
ofsthe derivation OF this name from bhl-
warks. that If all these great thorough
fares furnished as many evidences OF
the thinga which conduce to national
strength as they do Tor the prevailing
passion for adornment, this wonderful
city would be well fortified i~ndeedfboth
against external foes and against the.
moresubtle and dangerous forces which
menace her from within.
Chief among the great boulevards are
those which bear the names OF Made
leine. Capucines, 1taliens, Moatmartre,
Poissonnier, Bonne:Nouvelle and st,
Denis. An afternoons saunter along
these thoroughfares, keeping the eyes
openland the reflective faculties busy.
enSroute, will revealto you very much
thatis characteristic of this gay city.
You viii get in sucha walka good view
o fPariaian life, will pass or be within
sight of many places OF commanding in.
terest, and will be reminded repeatedly
Of the checkered and sanguinary his
tory3the city has had. Almost every.
thing in Paris speaks of change and.
violence, and this leafs made striking
lyprominent in our walk on the great
bouleyards. We start at the Church OF
ST. Mary Magdalen, the Madeleine. It
wasintended originally to be what 1t
now ID, q place of worship, but Bona.
parte converted it into a Temple OF
Glory. Begun in 1777; twas retarded.
initsi erection by two revolutions ll792
and 1880, and was not finally finished
until 1912, Here is a reminder both OF
the vicissitudesN of the nation and OF
the Facilitating attitude Of the national
government towards religion.
ThisSi IL at the beginning of our walk,
andgat the other end, within a few hum
dfedsyards,of each other, are two grim.
looking piles which are similarly sug.
gestiye, and in their modern history,
even more SO. These are the PORES st.
Denis and St Martin, erected by the
city in honor of the victories OF the
Grand Monarch. In 1914, after the.
first overthrowof Napoleon, the Allied.
Armies entered the city by the Porte
81. Martin. Afearful desecration, and
it marked great change, but it was q
scene Of peace and quite an affair OF
honor in comparison with the scenes
these two Ports Witnessed duringthe
rayages Of the last Commune. The
Place AZ E0paa marks the site OF an
other great change, and ono, happily,
which it is ia.pleasure to recall. When
youlstanliin this Place, which has no
less than six broad throughfares de
yerging from 1t, and remember that
from the ground now left vacant tor
convenience and pleasure, some five
hundred houses had to be removed at
almost untold cost, youlgeta practical
object lessonsof what Parisian enter
prise means; and when youilook at the
Grand Opera House itself, which covers.
three acres, and which cost nearly ten
millions Of dollars, your conception OF
what has been done to make Paris the.
most beautiful city in the world is en-
arged still further.
Even here, though, spite Of the.
beautya and enterprise about you, 1t Is
impossible to lose sight OF that which.
has been horrible in this citys history,
or TO diyest yourself entirely OF fear for.
her future. AT the other end OF the
gfandSRue de Ia Paix, the column Ven-
dome rises to your view, looking as.
though It had stood there undisturbedI
for 4 hundred years Yet in1S7l the
fury offs Partisan mob had leyelled tito
the ground; and not far beyond is the
siteof the Tuileries, tolwhich Parlsian.
madmen applied at the same time the
torch Of the incendiary. Even the paw
lingo these great streets has HISTORY
otioreboding to tell. IT s no longer Of
stone, because so oftenistones have been
used for barricades and weaponsot as
sault, but of wood, and In the smallest
blocks, the peculiar rumbling OF the
traffic over 1t, which reminds you at
first Of the rumbling sound peculiar to.
the ocean, seeming, in consequence, like.
atneyer ceasing edmonton at once OF
what has been andsof what may be.
But the ahopsyou see on these bou-
levards giye no sign Of anything like
this, andthethrongso of people you meet
arc surely, for the greater part, living
neither in the past northe future, but
inthe9gay and all engrossing present.
YouSdetect no fear in the air, but you.
do often detect in 1t the real or artiii-
cial fragrance Of flowers. This is dis
tinetly Parisian. We never noticed IL
to any great extentin New York orin
London, but we pass shop alter Bhopsinl
Paris which sends out Q delightful fra.
gfhnce 70 MS, and occasionally q Great.
ure IN silks and ribbons viii sweep
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