The New York herald., 1922-10-22
GIRL STUDENTS
PARIS SUMNER

is, in fact. Just the building where the
public lectures OF the University OF
Paris are given. 1t is a wonderful
building, and the lectures the very
best In France. ] am by nature a long
and late sleeper, but arose cheerfully
at every morning, ate hurried (and
horrid) breakfast and walked mile
at top speed in order to get a good seat
for the $3.50 lecture. There / stayed
through for the 9:45 and II o'clock
lectures, each lasting an hour: and I
should have felt repaid only to have
watched the professors faces as they
talked. 1t doesn't seem fair that the
French should have such gift OF Ian
guage, for they don't need 1t as we
less expressive people do. When M.
Millardet Qiterature) was coming to
something special you could tell II by
the way his eyes cleaned and the cor
ners OF his lips curied, and sometimes
1t was SO good he had to whisper it.
M. Picaret gave a thrill even to the
stupid parts OF history. N. Hourticq,
the art professor Che is in this country
now I think, sits perfectly motionless
and talks In very soft voice, like
chain lightning, and sat on the edge
OF my chair and listened breathlessly.
The Sorbonne itself. or at least the
hall we were In (Salle Richelieu) is
cold and smelly and the seats are cer-
tainly harder than any other wooden
benches; there are no windows and no
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could see or feel. The audiences were
most interesting. A gray haired Eng
lishman with a monocle sat near me
sometimes. There were a good many
English, a good many Americans, some
French, a few Chinese and Japanese
looking so studious--an occasional
brown mani don't know of what ma
tlonallty. and quite number of monks
and nuns.
Group Went to Visit
All the BattIefeIds
The group" was taken out Of town
for the week ends. We went to all the
battlefields. l refrain from expressing
my feeling for them. The one thing I
should like to tell of is our arrival at
small yillage--Viller des Coteret--
by chance the day they were celebrat-
ing their "Fetes des Morts" on the an
niversary OF the mobilization OF the
troops. 1t was raining and we fol-
lowed the little procession out of town
to the cemetery with its thousands of
white crosses. There were a few
speeches and the children put flowers
at the foot of monument--a touch
ing little ceremony. We also went TO
the lovely old town OF Sentis with its
Roman ruins and its bright new little
station with the cross of. the Legion
of Honor on its face. Out a few miles
from Compiegne we saw the white
wooden cross in the woods which
marks the spot where the armistice
was signed. At Rheims Cardinal Lu-
con. charming old man, received and
made each one of US feel personally
welcome.
At Rambouiilet we were to have been
received by President Millerand at the
famous old chateau. now the summer
residence Of the Presidents Of France
but some meeting of state prevented
and We were received, instead, by the
Mayor, who made very graceful
speech of welcome, and finished by re-
GREETING that he could not offer us
wine, our country being prohibition
We were very much amused. and per-
haps he saw 1t, for. at the luncheon
served under a pavilion in the lovely
garden OF the Hotel Saint Herbert, we
were given the most delicious cham
pagne. Whether provided by his hon.
or or by our guardian angel, the
French Governments, we never knew
Rambouillet is too well known to de-
scribe, but one thing had never
heard of was quaint old ',Bergerie,'
where are kept the merino sheep de-
scended from those imported from
pain by Napoleon, and absolutely the
only flock of pure bred Spanish me-
rinos in the world.
On August "a we packed our trunks,
paid our last visits to the most be-
! loved places, including the Cafe Ro-
tonde. and, early in the morning of
the 25th. took the train for Tours. II
didn't seem possible that we were real
iy leaving. After six weeks in Paris
one seems TO belong there. And SO
much had to be unfinished, or not even
begun. Even the wonderful chateaux
OF the Loire and Of Normandy didn't
console me much. There 10 a movins
picture CATO with no front TO II ir
Tours where I forgot and enjoyed my
self for an evening. II Is filed with
small tables, and the people go there
and sit for the evening smoking and
drinking coffee or nqueurs or du Bon
net (ours), and some OF them playing
dominoes. while the pictures go mer-
rily on. Outside there Is always q
changing and sometimes a 5eering
crowd. as when the rest OF our group
discovered US there.
We had lovely and interesting trips
to all the chateaux ana TO the Jeanne
d'Arc country, finishing In beautiful
old Rouen. but, excepting for that mo-
ment In Tours. VIC didn't live there,
and it isn't the Same. would gladly
have lived month IN Rouen. or any
Of tho other places for that matter.
but II was time TO come home. and we
said ssi revoir TO Ia belle France.