Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-09-21
BEAUTIFUL CITY Of PARIS.
QUITE plEFEREHT FROM LONDON AND
NEW YORK IN CUSTOMS.
LOW STANDARD OF MORALITY
Large Buildings Versailles Expensive Car.
riages Of the Knas-Tomb Of Napoleon.
UndenominationaI American Church.
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the most beautiful city. Some think
the most beautiful city in the
world. For little while after we
reached this place / was disap-
pointed, but it grows on you and it
is certainly place of beauty. 1t is
so different from London. The lat
ter place has many parks, but her
streets are narrow and consequently
crowded with people. Some of the
streets in Paris are narrow, of course,
but great many of them are wide,
very wide. l don't suppose there is
any city in the world that has any
thing in the way of streets that can
equal some of the boulevards in
Paris. The pavements on some of
these avenues are twice as wide as
many of the important streets in
other cities. Some of these pave
ments are twice as wide, l should
say, as Broadway, N. Y. These
streets are perfectly clean and almost
as smooth as floor. All along the
sides of these streets are beautiful
flower beds and groves of thriving
trees.
The houses in Paris are not very
high, compared with our sky-scrapers
in America, and this, no doubt, is
why the oity did not make very
favorable impression on me at first.
Many of her churches and public
buildings are of the Grecian style
and architecture, which is not 80
conspicuous as the Gothic; but when
you enter these buildings they show
off to great advantage. Some of
these buildings are among the finest
in the world. They are simply
grand, gorgeous and beautiful. I
visited several of these buildings,
among them the Madeleine church,
the Notre-Dame Cathedral, the Pan
theon, Eglis des Invalides, (Napo-
Icons tomb is here,) the Grand
Opera House, the Louvre, etc. One
who has never seen these large build
ings, or others like them, can have
no conception of their symmetry,
greatness and grandeur. Some of
them cost millions of dollars and
were ages in building.
Everywhere there are signs of the
peoples devotion to Napoleon and
to the glory of warlike achievements,
monuments commemorating the
victories of the illustrious general.
This spirit seems to have dominated
France and her people entirely too
much, and she has been reaping the
harvest of her own sowing. Iunder-
stand her public debt is five times as
large as that of the United States,
and that the interest on her debt is
ten times as much as that of our
country. The people have suffered
on account of the extravagant and
luxurious living of the Kings and
other celebrities in the past. After
visiting Versailles and witnessing
the evidence OF these things, it is not
surprising that the great Revolution
came.
Our party spent the good part of
day at Versailles, twelve miles
from Paris. This was at one time
the home of the kings of France, and
the public buildings which we visited
while there give US some conception
of how luxuriantly the kings lived.
There are some of the finest paint
ings in these buildings / ever saw.
In the building called the Palace
there are miles of pictures and other
things to interest us. The Salon
des Glaces, or grand ball room, in
the building, is considered one of the
finest in the world. 1t is 239 feet
long, 35 feet wide and 43 feet high.
1t is lighted on one side by II large,
arched windows that correspond
with arches on the opposite side,
filed with large mirrors. This ar
rangement gives to the room splen-
did effect. There is still another
room in this building, larger than