The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-11-10
Albert N. Moore
Tells of Sights in
French Capitol
Brest, France.

DedE SlSteT.-
Have Just returned from trip to
Paris, so will try to tell you some
thing of my trip. On last Thursday,
the 10th, went to the r. T. 0. and
made the necessary arrangements for
our trip, Corporal Cohen and |. At
1880 P. M. we boarded the train and
proceeded on our journey. Corporal
Cohen said he would turn over his
francs to me and I could pay the
bills. Don't know why. Probably
because | am the senior N. G. O.
We arrived at Montparnesse Sta
ton, Paris, at $3.50 A NJ, Friday.
Then we took the Metro subway to
Place de la Concorde. From there
we went to Grand Hotel de Pavilion
and escured a room.
After having luncheon, we took a
trip over the city, visiting some of
the most important points of the city.
First we visited the church, through
the roof Of which the Big Bertha sent
a she'll killing 80 persons and wound
ing 126. This happened on Good
Friday while the people were con-
gregated in the church. Next we
viewed the Cathedral of Notre Dame.
which was built in 1855, being near
ly 500 years old, and in which lies
the original crown of thorns which
Christ wore at the crucifxion, or it
is said to be the original crown. 1t
is only shown during Holy Week
Easter--so | did not get to see it,
It was in Notre Dame that all the
Kings were crowned and all the bish
ops and archbishops are buried.
Next we visited a palace of one of
the old kings which was very mag
nifcent edifce. Then we passed on
to the tomb of Napoleon, which is
made of very fine granite, and is in
a palace whose windows are made of
a peculiar glass. The sun shines or
the tomb all the time; even on a
cloudy day the glass admits the light
in such way that it seems the sun
is shining.
From there we made our way to
the Palace de Justice. | had the
honor of sitting on the jurors bench
of the Supreme Court of the Repub-
lie of France.
There were so many things | can't
mention all of them, but the next
thing in order was the Pantheon de
pGuerre. A picture of the war
which was completed in four years by
10 artists, two doing the main work
and seventeen the detail work, 1t rep
resented all the nations that took
part in the war. It's dimensions are
circumference, $50 it,; height, 40 TT
Thence we proceeded to the Eiffel
Tower, where the famous Calico
made his experiment concerning fall
ing bodies.
The Tower reaches to height of
984 it., including the flag on top,
1000 it, | also had the pleasure of
looking upon the great ferris wheel
which was shown at the worlds fair.
It's height is $40 feet. wanted to
take a ride on it and ascend the tower
but did not get to do either.
Now let US pass down the Boule-
ward de Italiens, which is lined with
captured guns of all types.
Just word about the public
square, and | will stop my descrip-
ton of Paris, because my letter will
be rather long.
The square is where the public ex-
ecutions were carried out at one time.
| was told that four hundred heads
were chopped off in that square. A
magnificent Egyptian obelisk stands
on the left and a beautiful fountain
on the right. Saturday morning Co
hen and made our own picture by
standing before large mirror in