Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1910-02-01
A LETTER FROM FRANCE.
E. Yancey Cohen, of Palisade, Con-
tributes Interesting Views
of French Life.
II bis, Cite du Belvedere,
St. Germain- en-Laye, France,
January 10, 1910.

Editor "The Palisadian" | have to
thank you on behalf of my family as
well as myself for the budget of Pail
sadians" which you forwarded to us.
There arose a very comfortable feeling
around our library table in consequence,
and we found ourselves for the time
being about three thousand miles nearer
to Palisade avenue. l need hardly tell
you that we were delighted to hear of
the fine prospects ahead for Palisade
and to read the many items of interest
concerning our friends and neighbors.
SUBURBAN LIFE NEAR PARIS.
This place is suburb of Paris, as
Palisade is of New York, but there the
resemblance may be said to cease. We
are thirty minutes away from Paris by
the fastest express The journey is
not an unpleasant one, for one passes.
a succession of villages made up OF
pretty houses and gardens, with inter
vening truck farms under the finest Gull
tivation. The Seine is crossed three
times before one reaches Paris, the river
folding and returning on itself in
succession of graceful loops. From the
1dlIlOuS GRACE OF 81. GSIIlldlll, WQ1Ca
was constructed by Louis NV, a mag
nlhcent panorama meets the view, the
fertile plains and teeming villages living
stretched out for miles and miles, with
Mont Valerien, the Eiffel Tower and
Montmartre in the distance. perhaps a
dozen miles away. The Terrace is a
mile long, about $50 feet above the val
ley below, and during the spring and
summer is not only the favorite resort
of the residents of St German, but is
immensely popular with Parisians, who
flock hither on Sundays by the thou
sands. The great Forest of St Ger
main, of about eleven thousand acres,
begins at the Terrace, and as it also is
one of the show places of France, the
Government keeps it up in the most
careful manner, its forestry being sci
entihcallv developed and its horticul-
ture and flower beds being things of
delight. The military band of the two
regiments of regulars garrisoned here
plays on the Terrace from May until
October, and there are ponies and don
key-carts for the children as we'll as GIN
gerbread and ''Sirops."
CHARMS OF a SMALL FRENCH CITY.
The town itself, which contains about
1900 HiIldDlldIltS, Is d SOOQ example OF
a not very progressive residential small
city. Very little is lacking, but every
thing is on small scale. OF course,
we are seeing the place in winter. when
many villas and large properties are
closed up. their owners having returned
to Paris For this is a fashionable sum
mer resort. and the time really to Judge
its charms is during the summer months.
For the winter one has at hand the
National Museum maintained by the
government in the Chateau of St Ger
main, museum of national antiquities
very important for the scientist and the
savant; the public library belonging TO
the city, from which one may take home
two volumes at a time; fair collec-
ton of paintings in the little Hotel de
Vile; theatre with a stock company at
which productions are given twice a
week; a series of excellent concerts dur
ing the winter months, etc.
SHOPPING IN THE SUBURBS.
There is a great variety of shops in
he town, but for expensive articles and
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