Paris: With Pen and Pencil

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pool, get at least a birds-eye view of the country parts of England, stay

he French consul, and pay him a dollar for affixing his signature to the precious document. At the first sea-port this passport was taken from me, and a provisional one put into my keeping. At Paris the original one was returned! And this is a his

gale blowing in the channel. If I could have known, I should have waited, or gone by the express route, via Dover, the sea transit of which occupies only two hours. The fare by steamer from London to Boulogne was three dollars. The accommodations w

antic, I had seen nothing so disagreeable as this. The motion was so quick and so continual, the boat so small, that I very soon found myself growing sick. The rain was disagreeable, and the sea was constantly breaking over the bulwarks. I could not stay below-the atmosphere was too stifling and hot. So I bribed a sailor to wrap about me his oil-cloth garments, and lay down near the engines

nal passport for me, and now very politely advised me to get up and take the first train to Paris, for I had told him I wished to be in Paris as soon as possible. Giving him a good fee for his trouble, and hastily quitting the apartment and paying for it, I was very soon in the railway station. My t

English. They were fitted up for four persons in each compartment, and a door opened into each from the side. The seat and back were be

merica, and I noticed that many very respectably dressed ladies and gentlemen were in them-probably for short distances. It is quite comm

e was unintelligible, for I found that to read French in America, is not to talk F

wers bloomed everywhere. There was not quite that degree of cultivation which the traveler observes in the best parts of England, but the scenery was none

s, but I felt a little fear that I should get cheated, or could not make myself understood; but as the old saw has it, "Necessity is the mother of invention," and I satisfied my hunger with a moderate outlay of money. A few miles before we reached Paris, we stopped at the little village of Enghein, and it

em. A tax is laid upon all such articles when they enter the city, and this is the reason why on Sunday the people flock out of town to enjoy

htful one and fitted up in elegant style. I was in the best part of Paris. Two minutes walk away were the Champs Elysees-the Madeleine church, the Tuileries, etc., etc. But I was too tired to

small sea-port. The cars were fitted up with every comfort, and we made the passage in quick time. At three P.M. we went on board a little steamer for Dieppe, where we arrived at nine o'clock. After a delay of an hour we entered a railway carr

river Seine, and often upon its banks. Many of the views from the train were romantic, and some of them wildly grand. Upon the whole, this route is the pleasantest between Paris an

RY OF

Cité. This was their home, and being surrounded by water, it was easily defended against the approach of hostile tribes. The na

re worshiped by them, though fragments of an altar of Jupiter have been found under the choir of the cathedral of Notre Dame. Nearly four hundred years after Christ, the Emperor Julian remodeled the government and laws of Gaul and Lutetia, and changed its name to Parisii. It then, too, became a city, and had considerable trade. For five hundred years Paris was under Roman domi

, he embraced Christianity and erected a church. The island was now surrounded by walls and had gates. The famous church of St. German L'Auxerrois was built at this time. For two hundred and fifty years, Paris retrograded rather than advanced in civilization, and the refinements introduced by the Romans were nearly forgotten. In 845 the Normans sacked and burnt Paris. Still again it was besieged, but such was the valor of its inhabitan

shed and new churches and towers were built. In 1250 Robert Serbon founded

ad then twenty-five thousand students. Under the reign of successive monarchs Paris was, from famine and plague, so depopulated that its gates were thrown open to the malefactors of all countries. In 1470 the art of printing was introduced into the city and a post-office was established. In the reign of Francis I. the arts and literature sprang into a new life. The heavy buil

occurred, but the projects of the preceding king were carried out, and more than eighty new streets were opened. The planting of trees in the Champs Elysees, als

eauty of Paris. He commenced the erection of the Madeleine. Theaters and comic opera-house

f the Louvre was opened, and under Napoleon the capital assumed a splendor it had never known before. Under the succeed

h of Paris, and will proceed at once to describe what I saw in i