Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-10-11
ON LEAVE IN PARIS
Sergeant Joe Domitio Spends a Leave
of Absence in Paris, The Beautiful
and Brave-Impressions and OBJ
servations of a Wauseon Soldier.
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Headquarters France.

Sunday Sept. 1st, 1918
Dear Sis and Chas.
Have had so many nice letters from
you that | thought you might not like
the idea of doing all the writing so
today as I have some time will try
and get to you. Things are about
the same here with me and I am feel
ing fine. Have just had a nice
little permission of eight days so you
see l have reason to feel 0. K. Took
peach of trip to Paris and believe
me l sure had fine time, can you
imagine me spending my vacation in
gay Paree? 1 left headquarters
here on the 5:45 train on Aug. Is,
and didn't come back until the 23rd.
so you see l had quite bit of time
in the city. There were four Of is
in the bunch and we surely had a fine
time, stayed at the hotel Pavilion
which is run at the present time by
the "Y" and is a dandy place. The
rooms were fine and the eats some
thing to be remembered by the
fellows who were there when we come
back. The first day we hired a taxi
and drove all over the city stopping
at all the interesting places and going
through them when at all possible
there surely are some interesting
places and sights in this city and of
course much different than you ever
see back in the States. The build
ings are not high but what they lack
in that respect is certainly made up
in statues, carvings and paintings
which are truly wonderful Of
course at this time there are lots of
the buildings that are covered on the
principal parts with sand bags for
protection of the air raids and the
| big gun. The first night we were
there TIE Hun tried to come over to
welcome US but the 5arrage and
other defences drove them off before
they got to the inner city. This has
usually been the case and for that
reason they have not succeeded in
doing so very much damage. OF
course there have been some times
when they got through and there was
i, a store near the hotel which was
rather badly damaged by the bombs,
then also there were several other
places which had been hit by the
| big gun and bombs, you would think
that the people would act rather
frightened when the fun begins but
you never see much of this sort OF
thing. One day just after we had
breakfast there was an alarm and up
on going out in the street found g
crowd of people watching the sharp,
mel bursting in the air in the driving
off of a couple of Huns who had the
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Of course they were high up and quite
safe except from the pursuit planes
which rather quickly run them off te
their own lines again, some game OF
tag, nest ce pas. We took a triI
to Versailles, where the grand palace
of Louis the XIV is located and sure
ly were well repaid for the time we
; spent there. The buildings were
wonderful as were also the grounds
with there numerous fountains anC
statutes, it is 27 miles around tht
grounds and at one time was th'
play grounds of the Kings of France
There have been lot of the things
removed from time to time but Their
are still a great many interesting
things to be seen. The painting
anu STATUES III Gu0 UullulIISS al
beautiful and all in a fine state o
preservation. The royal carriage
and harness which the Kings an,
Queens used are all in the fine sta
bles, believe me they knew how t
, spend the money all right. Her
also is the smaller palaces of Madam
f Pompadore and Madame LaBarre
also the play village of Marie An
, toinette, which is complete villay
inside the large park, we stoppe
here and had lunch beside of wher
this Lady used to change her roya
robes for those of the simple village
so as to have more freedom. Seem
funny to have been spending time i
roaming over the same ground wher
these important personages used t
live. You would never have though
:: Of this a couple of years ago woul
( you now?
We also took in number of thea
ters while here and altho the Oper
was closed got look at it any way
. saw several good programs at tn
Follies-Bergere, the Casino de Pari
and the Cine-Opera. These are a
swell places and built on a much diff
' erent plan than in the states. 1
most of them during the intermissio
they serve drinks and have a regula
cafe in general. This seems to b
the principal object of life here for O
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