Bisbee daily review., 1908-05-16
e. c. Young,

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 two historical places in Paris. and oi these Will write in this letter,
 The first was to "Notre Dame Cath | edral,' which means the church oi
 our lady, where so many things oi
 political and religious nature have
 transpired. One part of the present
 building dates from the eleventh cen
 tury. but the church has been three
 times almost destroyed in the reyo
 I1tions in France; and the last time il was rebuilt the people feared to finish the structure, they claim, lest !, should be again destroyed and so the front tower to this day remains un' finished. In 1793 in the French reso- lution, "Notre Dame" church was talk en by mob from the royal govern ment, the priests were driven from the services, and this magnificent tenn. pie of the Lord was turned into a veritable charnel house. High and wicked rule held the church for many months for common business purposes, lonly to show how mean they could be when the opportunity was offered. Butchers, vegetable vendors, even gamblers and many others came spite fully to this church to ply their trades. l The prostitute women decided to make their headquarters here, and so part of tne great cathedral was wall ed of and turned into a house of ill- fame. Cab drivers and draymen had stalls for their horses and the desc cration of the holy temple in Jerusa- lem was never more profiigate than the unseemly uses the Notre Dame was turned to by the riff-raff of the French revolution.
 At the same time, and not far away | from this church King Louis the Six. teenta and his unfortunate queen, Marie Antonette, were imprisoned in the Concierge" and most every day this mob would come from the church 1 to the prison and yell and cry for the heads of the king and queen. In a short time this bloody desire was sat isfied by sitting up the Guillotine on | the opposite banks Of the Seine and the heads of the king and queen were cut off, and the heads of many others | fell under the fatal ax during this reign of terror of one year and a half. As some body has well said, the lead CTS of the French revolution devoured themselves while they were killing their supposed enemies Almost like this was the death of an anarchist in a Paris church ten years ago. l stood in the door in the Madeline church where 1t happened. Three thousand people were assembled on great feast day, the man slipped in the door and just as he was ready to pitch the deadly bomb into the crowd | it bursted and blew him into pieces beyond all recognition but hurt no one else.
 ] King and queen were now dead but ttheir young son, less than fifteen, was heir to the throne and now how to get rid of him was a question. The mob could kill men and women but they halted on killing a child with an ax, for that is what the Guillotine was, and so they starved the young boy to death. The story goes as cur rent history in Paris that the tailor was bribed to confine him in the house of shoemaker and then this man was hired to deprive him of food which finally caused his death. About this time there appeared on the scene of terror in France Napoleon Bonaparte and when he came into power as the first consul of France, work to clear the mob was begun and went on rap idly. ''Notre Dame" was cleaned of i its faithless inhabitants, the priests were put back in their places, and gradually order came out of the des- pair and loss Of life in the reign of terror Many kings had been in pre- vious years crowned in "Notre Dame" i for it was to France what Westminis- ter Abbey is to England, and in 1904 Napoleon himself came here to be crowned as Emperor of France. In previous years he had been the pro tector of this one church against q mob and here it was that the imperial crown of France was put on his head. There is in Paris a very great picture of this historic coronation and I wis | ted it three times for study of the art and the subject. There stands the great Napoleon. he has already been kneeling at the altar, and at the monn- I ent when the crown was to be put by another hand upon his head he reaches for 1t and crowns himself. There stands the representatives of i the powerful army which had helped to put him in this position and near him his wife, Josephine, the best wom- an ever in a royal palace fin France, and Napoleon turns to put the crown on her head. From this date and his growing in "Notre Dame" on to his death he was the greatest man France has ever produced, and in his age was in some respects the greatest military genius of the world.
 My next visit was to Hotel Des Invaledes,'' or Old Soldiers home. It was built as a refuge for worn out soldiers who had been in the wars of Louis the Fourteenth, that French king who wasted soldiers as If they were flood for powder" and it is yet used for the same purpose. Also there is the museum of the greatest collec- ton of arms and flags in the world and in an annex to the building Is the Tomb of Napoleon. I saw in tnis place, they said, three thousand flags captured at different times by the French armies, thousands of stands of small arms, and hundreds of pieces of artillery and canons-perhaps more captured arms and flags than any na- ton of the earth ever did or wsll pos ses. They are not used and I hope