The Red Cloud chief., 1919-05-08

came back convinced that from a
standpoint of art, Paris is the P"eat-
est city in the world; architecture,
sculpture and painting being found of
a value and amount not equaled in
any other city of the world.
There were eleven Of us went.
was with fellow named Hartman.
Hartman is from Anaconda, Montana,
so we have a little something in COM
mon, besides both of US working in
the Administrative Office at present.
We arrived in. Longres about nine in
the evening. At this point We
changed cars for Paris. Longres is
quite place, and, the streets like
many French towns are very winding.
We lost our way, and missed our
train by about ten minutes. Think
of a Bailey missing train. l was
rather glad afterwards for We have
just so much time in Paris, and then
we had a view in the morning from
the town, which is built on small
mountain, with wall running around
il. A great lake at the base on one
side, and the tents of large Ameri-
can Hospital Camp on the other
made pleasing sight.
We arrived in Paris the next day
just in time to get lined up for our
stay there, and the next morning our
sight seeing began with trip to the
Palace at Versailles. This trip takes
the most of the day, but one could
not we'll afford to miss it, as here one
sees one of the greatest, said to be,
the greatest palace in the world. 1t
was constructed in the time of Louis
the XIV. There are hundreds Of
rooms, and the paintings on the
walls and ceilings of each and every
one are Masterpieces Of Art, and
took years of time. We were on the
balcony where Queen Marie Antoin-
ette with baby in her arms address
ed the mob at the time of the Revolu-
ton. She was in hopes that this
would appeal to the maternal instinct
of the women present, and that she
and her husband, Louis the XIV,
would be spared but France knew his
character, and though she was a
good woman, she met the same fate
as her husband, who was beheaded.
We saw the table on which, and the
room in which peace will be signed
and the fate of the German Empire
decided. The same place where the
present German Empire was formed
The gardens at the Palace are q
wonder. France has spent much
money and time to restore and keen
this Palace in its original beauty, and
are succeeding very well.
The Place de la Concorde where
the executions Of that time took place
is now filled with captured German
material of every description. Near
by is the church of st. Gervais, which
was struck by German shell on
Good Friday, 1918, killing forty peo-
pie, and doing much material damage.
At that time too, air raids were
quite common over Paris. People be-
came used to them. Fellows used to
charge ten cents in our money, "For
q look through the glasses at the
German Planes" Near this church
is the hotel where the Kaiser ordered
his Christmas dinner that must be
getting cold by this time. The peo-
pie Of Paris came near lynching the
owner when a wireless station was
discovered in his hotel.
The PalaiS du Louvre is the great
est Gallery in the world in Art and
Sculpture. Here is the original of
the Venus, and countless statues and
paintings that money could not buy.
And in this beautiful place was
planned by Catherine Gle Medicis the
massacre of st. Bartholomew; one of
the most awful things recorded in
history.
Near this is another palace. The
Palace of the Tuileries; the home of
Napoleon. 1t is not as large as that
at Versailles, but is just as beautiful
on smaller scale. One of the most
remarkable things is that through Il
long Gallery in this palace, running
from one end to the other, one can
see the setting sun exactly at the
center of the Arch of Triumph, q
half mile away, on the birthday of
Napoleon. SO you see Napoleon was
an architect as well as general
The body of Napoleon was brought
from the Island of st. Helena in 1910
and placed in the tomb. 1t is in {
great circular building, and one car
walk around looking down on th'
tomb of Napoleon, a wonderful worl
in marble. Around the side are th'
tombs of many of his generals. Th'
light above the tomb comes through
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