Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1919-01-30
From Louis Crow
MN France, Dec. 16, 1911.

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Dear Sister:-I received your
most welcome letter yesterday and
was OF course glad to hear from you
again. am still at the repair
shop" on detached service and hope
I shall be until we are ready to go
back to the states.
| I suppose you know today is my
birthday and that I am "a years old
and l am celebrating it by writing
some letters. They got some more
mail up at the company today but
there was nothing more for me.
was down to Bordeaux yesterday and
had pretty good time. l went on
a Y. M. G. A. sight seeing tour of the
cityand visited the opera house, the
streets of old Bordeaux, Art Musee,
the Great Clock Gateand st. Andrea's
Cathedral. The opera house is a
beautiful building OF solid stone.
built in 1913 to 70. and the ceilings
have some very fine painting and
there is some fine statuary and fine
lamps. Bordeaux was founded be-
fore the time of Christ and at that
time was thriving Roman city of
about $4,000 or 10000 people but it
was destroyed completely by the Ger
mans or Huns in the seventh GEN.
fury and the present city was built
right on the ruins of the old city and
some of the gates and walls Of the
city were built when it was restored
in the eighth century. They are
still standing and are quite interest
ing. The art musee is great col
lection OF old paintings. many of the
old masterpieces. also a fine bronze
statue of Louis Xvi, king of France
and other fine statues but the best Of
all was st. Andrea's cathedral It
was started in the eleventh century
and finished in the seventeenth CEN
fury and 1t Ia sure a magnificent build
ing. The ceiling is about hun
dred feet high and is supposed by
mighty arches and columns, ali fine
ly carved, and the windows are made
of thousands of small pieces of glass
of different colors and are said to be
among the finest of their kind i'm the
world. ] was also through the Pub
lie Gardens and the African musee
and they are both very good. There
are several more Of the musees that
I want to see. One of them is the
musee of old arms. There are also
many fine statues of famous French
statesmen aud such like scattered ov-
er the city in different parks and pub
Tic squares. Bordeaux is now city
of about 100000 and is the fourth
largest city IN France. The Y, NJ.
C.. A. is. located In one G9,tae na0st
famous OF Frances many gambling
houses or dens and is the queerest
building l was ever in. The walls.
instead of being solid are all doors
and everyone entering different
rooms or Railways and would be al
most a Chinese puzzle if it was not
for the crowd, but it has been closed
to gambling since the start OF the
war.
see in the paper that the Goth di-
vision at Camp Cody is being demo-
bolized and the camp abandoned and
| sure think it Is a good thing to
get the boys out of that hell hole be-
fore those sand storms start in again
this winter. How are you getting
along at school? Have you caught
up with your studies since your va
| cation for the flu? Is Phil done
with his corn yet? How IL the
weather there now. cold and snowy
suppose? Well. l must close for
this time as l cannot think of any
thing more to write.
Hoping you are all in the best Of
health. am as ever. your loving
brother.
LOUIS +. CROW.