The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1932-10-21
WofPoint Traveller On
TourEuropeanC Countries
BY Miss Belle Donaghue

very SOOQ out sui IL WAS easy I
see they lacked the masters touch
We especially enjoyed n paint
ing p%ortraying the coronation Q
: Napoleon. The interior of the cath
edral was gay with military unl
!, forms and fair ladies. The pope ha'
} come from Rome to perform th'
ceremony but the Little Corporal
forceful as always is shown PLACING
the crown on his head with hi
own hands.
We walked for hours until We
were ready to drop with fatigue
then walked some more, and ther
some more but at that we saw only
a small part of the treasures of the
Louvre. Still we Jared better thar
the shopping contigent for they
never even got a peep inside, the
rest of our time in Paris being
scheduled for other things.
The second day we went on a
sightseeing drive around Paris
Revolutionary Paris-bringing back
that wonderful horrible time when
Paris went mad. Palace de Bas-
tilei Site of the famous old prison
whose storming marked the begin
ming of the Revolution and Incl
dentally gave France it's great nat
ional holiday. The column marking
the prison site was surrounded
with scaffolding, signifying pre-
paredness for the great fete to be
celebrated by the three days of
dancing in the square.
Place de la Concordel Strange
name for a square where an Egyp-
tian obelisk marks the spot where
Madame Guillotine reaped her
dreadful harvest. Here over three
thousand persons met death dur
ing the Reign of Terror, including
Lotus XIV and Marie Antionette.
Royalty knew how to die, II not
to govern for all the royal court
with the exception of Du Barry,
who the guide informs us, was not
of royal birth-met death unflinch-
ingly. The Chapel of the Expiator,
a gloomy-looking edifice nearby,
covers the place where the bodies
of the victims were all inferred in
a large pit and covered with lime.
The church of the Magdalen was
very interesting as being one OF
the churches taken during the
Revolution for the Goddess OF
Reason, reigning deity of those
dreadful days. 1t is a very old
church but very beautiful, being
modelled after the Parthenon.
There is a double row of marble
Corinthian style, all a.
round the exterior of the building.
The interior of the building is al
so designed on Grecian lines.
The Pantheon is another building
hat has had a checkered career.
# was originally a Catholic church
named in honor of st. Genevieve,
patron guardian of Paris. Later 1t
vas converted into a Goddess of
Reason temple, then restored as a
Catholic church and finally under
Iapoleon III it was set aside as a
,urying place for noted men OF
1rance-a sort of French west
Minister Abbey, 1t was a splendid
building for such a purpose o the q
wallis were covered with handsome
,aintings and tapestries showing
-ivid scenes of French history. And s
riezes showing st. Genevieve turn
ng Atilla from Paris, the CONVEX
ion and baptism of Clovis the t
ROWING of C~harlemagne and the
Ife history of Joan of Arc. The
anthem is a great Revolutionary s
brine containing a fine statue OF
Iirabeau and a magnificent group
iece dedicated to the French Nat a
Assembly who had for their a
lotto 'To be free or to be dead. s
[ere are buried Diderot, Rousse-
Briard and Guynemer, a noted a
rench are. A peculiar thing about {
le building is the fact that the
)of is partly open to the sky, fol p
wing the pagan belief that a tenn a
.e should be cleansed only by I'M p
afiled water from heaven. :
The Arch of Triumph celebrates
victories of Napoleon whose
,nius saved, consolidated and
,read the fruits of the Revolu-
The four principal s%culptured
.oups on the monument show Ma
,leon's departure for war, his re-
rn, his coronation and victorious
The interior of the arch is
vered with the names of his vic
ries and generals. One tablet
cords the sorrow of France at
loss of Alsace Lorraine in 1871;
other records her joy at the re-
IN of these provinces in 1919. 1t
Is through this arch that our
glorious soldiers marched at the
Inclusion of the World war. Un-
r the arch lies the grave of
ance's Unknown Soldier. mark