Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-09-07
A TRIP TO EUROPE.
Famous Palaces are visited by
DR.. Leech.
Scenes where History was Made
Prominent Men and the Homes they
have Occupied Scene of Arrest of
Marie Antoineite Wealth of Historic
Relies Viewed.
, By $. V. LEIGH, d. ID.

heiics viewed.
By S. V. LEIGH, ID. ID.
THE FAMOUS PoTTERIEs OF sEvREs-
THE PARK OF THE ST. CLOUD ROY
All pALACE--THE PALACES AND
GARDENS AT VERSAILLES.
While at Paris We gave day to an
excursion To Seyres, st. Cloud and
/ Versailles, all within fourteen miles
of the French capital. There are
| three routes to all--the railroad, the
| Seine river steamers and the electric
/ line OF street cars Seyres and ST.
| Cloud are but half a mile apart. We
| took steamer for Seyeres, the world
/ renowned mandatory of costly and
maryelously beautiful porcelain, china
and bric-a- brac. The trip was de-
lightful, To seyres having 1000
population, the royal families OF the
world the nobility Of Europe and
many wealthy Americans 20 for their
splendid dinner and breakfast services,
and for parl0r aud hall ornaments.
The Gremanic Museum is stocked
with twenty thousand exhibits from
| the famous kilns. Many Of the tall
and dinner services are Of great value.
Some ancient pieces were made by the
discoverer OF the art of making white
pottery, the celebrated and perserver-
/ ing "Pallissy the Potter After Wis
| ting the halls and rooms, crowded
with exhibits, the Manager courteous
/ ~ conducted us through the ateliers
and workshops. 1t was an instructive
and interesting excursion,
Then we went into the Royal Park
Of St Cloud, grand aud fascinating.
Near by it is the Villa DIES Jardies, in
which have lived Balzac aud Gambet-
ia, and ia which this peerless orator
died. From Fort Valerian, la the
siege Of Paris In 1871. the German ar
tillery bombarded the beautiful royal
palace and the Napoleonic tower
known as 1.-The Lantern Of Diogenes, y
and destroyed them. But the two
famous fountains, s'Haut Cascade"
and "Basse Cascade, still play, as Of
yore, when the bands perform. Twice
was ST. Cloud burned in the middle
ages. Here the anarchist monk,
Jacques Clement, assassinated the
third Henry. Here the Little Cor
poral,0 Bonaparte, drove out of the
Legislative Hall the five hundred
dred deputies, at the point of the
bayonet, and overthrow the govern
ment OF the Directory on the
eyentful 10th Of November, 1899.
Here the tenth Charles wrote the
/ three despotic DEGREES on kingly rights
that overturned his throne. st. Cloud
has been associated with important
events for ages. The gardens and park
are still magnificent.
/ After luncheon at Seyres we took
seats on the top OF splendid electric
car from Paris and went eight miles
further up the river To lovely Yer
4 sailles, where the overshadowing glory
! is the finest palace and park in Eu-
! rope. Fhe palace is vast and inn
! posing collection OF buildings now
constituting an immense museum.
/ Its gorgeous and numerous apartments
are crowded with paintings and sculp-
lures by distinguished French artists.
BY direction of the fourteenth Louis
vast sums were layishSd on the IA
nous fountains, park and palace.
Thirty thousand soldiers worked on
4 them for seven years. The fifteenth
Louis installed his mistresses Madame
du Pompadour and Madame du Barry
| in this Palace and also In the ada
cent s'Trianon. To the Palace, Oc-
tober 9Th, 1885, came the Partisan
mob to kill the sixteenth Louis and
his queen Marie Antoinette. when the
taxes Of the people were half OF their
incomes, and the poor were starving.
| Fortunately Lafayette arrived with
national guards in time TO prevent
general massacre. Over the little
Cour de Marbre, facing the great
court yard, Mary Antoinette looked
out on the mob when she and her hus-
band were hurried, first to the Tuil-
leries, and then to the scaffold. Since
those days Bonaparte. Louis the Eigh-
tenth, Louis PHILIPPE, Napoleon the
Third, and the Republican govern
ments have spent immense sums on
the buildings and park. The one
drawing room, walled with mirrors,
called the Galerie DIES Glaces is 244
feet long, and its gorgeous splendor
was designed by Lebrun. The guests
of the extravagant monarchs filed it
on all occasions Of banquet. In the
| Hall OF Mercury the body of Louis the
Sixteenth lay in state for a week after
his death. Hall on hall is large and
costly. The cabinet room Is surpas-
singly Respondent. In the sumptu-
Gus bed room OF the fifteenth Louis is
| bis renowned bedstead that cost sixty
Thousand francs. On all OF the fur
niture and door knobs OF the rooms
occupied by Marie Antoinette are rep
reservations OF Austrian eagles A
whole day may be spent In this pal
ace in which William, King OF Prus-
| sia, had his headquarters from 1870
| TO March 1871. Ia the vast Hall d