Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1919-04-16
WAITING FOR THE SHIP
TO BRING THEM HOME
Edwin Stenson Sends Another In
teresting Descriptive Letter
From France.
Castres, Gironde, France,
March 20. 1919.

|
yankee Division Of New England) and
sailing before US. This town In about
| around is quite picturesque, the trees,
for a month or more. The towns around
| here are built very close to one another,
many of them joining. The country is
Bordeaux i wines come from. Bordeaux
| is very large seaport town and vessels
| come in there from all parts of the
she
vessels of every description from every
cline. The River Gironde flows through
here and at noontime the tide is In
| feet of our mess hall (Which is minus
| ceiling and walls:) The people are of
| many classes and descriptions and as
there are many Americans here so also
there are numerous pedlars, Algerians,
| Moroccans. French and Spanish---they
all seem to think that we have "be aS;
there is seldom a day but what it rains
! at least once day.
| Visits the Pantheon.
was in Paris a couple OF days last
week and on my way passed through
T 1es anS the city Of
in history because Of the fact that the
| renowned Joan of Arc raised the siege
Of this place against the English in the
White in Pari. visited the Latin
! quarters. which is the foundations of
Paris built before the Beriod Of Ghr e.
! Jacques is still much used and connects
Paris with Lyons and Rome. A Roman
| emperor by the name Of Chorus lived
and was crowned here about the year
! 300 A brief walk takes one to the
Pantheon building Of wonderful de-
sign. the dome was copied in making
and contains the tombs Of such men as
Hugo, Rousseau, Voltaire, etc: Along
side is the Library Of ST. Genevieve,
ID o of padnE ee is ali
| Of Frances men who achieved fame in
literature or arts The University of
Sorbonne is close at hand and is nat
The Church Of St. Gervais is nearby,
this church that a shell from the Ger
Good Friday and killed something like
l25 people. The Luxembourg Gardens
is the largest in France; was built by
of a a aSoa IT Is
! The Luxembourg Museum contains sew
| eral hundred works of sculptor and art,
a number Of them by Rodin
Tomb Of Napoleon.
The tomb Of Napoleon impressed me
| greatly. AS one enters the building one
| is seized with a certain chastity feel
| ing; the lighting effect being such that
| the atmosphere is of a color OF. dark
| center of circular pit and is sur
| rounded by flags Of every description
which he captured during his many
| Overhead is inscribed the following
from his last viii: II desire that my
sena be that Safd a aenf eS ban Ns
Immediately to the rear are the tombs
Of MS two ,! great at generals Durec and
eeon %h arc Of the hs
forth Wonderful color: It is said the
process by accident and that no one
has ever been able to duplicate them
| in color since.
49, immediately, to the rear of Napoleons
yard of which is now adorned with hun
dreds of German cannon of every kind,
also several German planes which were
Guyenmer is also to be seen here. He
was the famous French Ace Of Aces
who is credited with 119 Boche planes
believe measures more than Is feet
from tip to tip Incidentally that is
about as high as I would want to go
Palace at Versailles.
We also visited the Palace Of Louis
KY at Versailles, the construction Of
which vas ore Of the main causes Of
least hundred spacious rooms. ex-
elusive Of halls and balconies and
would require more than a month to
the various pictures and paintings.
Every room has it's sides and ceilings
covered with wonderful paintings and
oed and de whan
was not engaged in war one of his arm
les consisting of $4,000 men and 5000
horses aided in the construction OF
joining at one time He also had not
less than 100 expert sculpters engaged
at one time designing. statues of which
Representing the heroes of Grecian Myth.
ology. He also created a large artif.
cial lake on the he's grounds to satisfy his
had a mania for Roman emperors anc
is so represented in many Of the paint
i nas in in. the palace He vas twice mar
, lineage. it was necessary to build {
petit palace nearby; He also playet
would play with his friends, the mark
ings still to be seen on the floor. o.
one occasion when he dismissed his as
, ahead with their business next da!
= without the King and to hold thei
meeting mat psoI in this this tennis room tn
n Ming ucdIO dUOuI anu the next "a
< when the Assembly arrived they wer
a denied admittance because the King ha
}, a very important game of tennis to pla
with one of his friends! In one Of tn
|. rooms is table rich in design and in
ton. It was at this table that Emp
error William I of Germany dictated tn
treaty of peace with France in the Wa
/, Of 1870 and resulted in the birth of tn
). German confederation: I am told tina
the present treaty Of peace is to
n signed on this very table quite natu1
70 ally l ran my hand across the surfac
or crooRs i in it that ats Wouidnt pepm
Of a perfectly legitimate signature
On our return we walked down tt
Quai de Orsay and saw the buildin
v where the present Peace Conference
a The church Of Notre Dame is a mob
e. piece of work. It is probably the mo-
famous church in the world. It W:
begun in 1853 and consecrated in 118
- Mary Queen of Scots was married he
= and Napoleon was crowned here in $50
- If remember correctly it IL the large
church in the world and I could n
attempt to begin to describe it and
tho same time do it justice.
A Remarkable Painting.
At the present time however, I
lieve there is nothing that interests
Partisan traveller more than the Pa
theon da la Guerre, q building constru<
ed for the purpose Of exhibiting a pair
dawn Of peace and there are abo
, | 10000 characters in the picture, me
than 5000 Of them are paintings fro
life or Of a Photographic likeness.
seq to swit s 4s SHOWS ns ali o{
prominent personages who have ACHE
ed fame in the world strife, the terra
Of the county, our the Villages dl burning
tween each of the allies reDreSented