Paris: With Pen and Pencil

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morning, and I would like to hear the birds sing and smell the flowers, I go to some pleasant garden and i

rings, no method in my sight-seeing, following a perha

out from my hotel, with a friend

ll we go?"

ry called Picpus, f

while to go so far to

see when we

e Sacred Heart." Within the convent, which we entered, there is a pretty Doric chapel with an Ionic portal. There was an air of privacy about, the little chapel which pleased me, and a chasteness in its architecture which could not fail

hich we have come to se

he replied; "still I see nothing to ju

while and you w

de la Concorde," they walked up the steps of the scaffold to die-for Liberty! Oh shame! One-two-three-four-there were eight graves we counted, all victims of the reign of terror. For a moment I forgot where I was; the graves were now at my feet, but I saw the poor victims go slowl

ces madness? Have not tyrants this fact always to dream over-though you may escape the vengeance of outraged humanity, yet your children, your children's children shall pay the terrible penalty. Louis XVI. was a gentle king; unwise,

arked my friend. "They are interest

e, though, did I

s the tomb of Rosambo and Lemoignon amid the tangled grass. All of these names were once noble and great in France, and as I bent over them, I could but call up France in the

e buried nobility,"

r, unless the ashes had been something more than a mere king. To

it was green and bright. The song of a plaintive bird just touched our ears-where it was we could not tell, only we heard i

but I saw that his lips quivered. T

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of the greatest men of France. Not in Pere la Chaise, amid grandeur and fashion, but in a little private cemete

Charlestown lay in flames. Step by step we ran over the bitter struggle, with so much power on one side, and on the other such an amount of determination, but after all so many dark and adverse circumstances, so little physical power in comparison with the hosts arrayed against us

ern patriotism, which would neither tremble before a king nor an infuriated rabble. Yet he was obliged to fly for life from Paris-from France. He lay in a

dangerous citizens, and casts out the true and the noble. She did so when she se

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ted, and was busy in political writing and speculations. At that time he showed me a complete constitution for a "model republic" in France, and a code of laws fit for Paradise rather than France. The documents exhibited great skill and learning, but the impress of an enthusiast was upon them all. By his conduct or manner, the stranger would never have supposed that my friend was enthusiastic. He never indulged in any flights of indignation at the existing state of things, never was thrown off his guard so as to show by his speech or his manner that he was passionately attached to liberal principles. It was only after I had come to know him well, that I discovered this fact-that he was a great enthusiast, and so deeply attached to the purest principles respecting human fre

of the secret police was constantly upon him. He still clung to his old American passpor

when my friend, who was with me, remonstrated. "You can walk to the spot and deliver it yourself," said he, "a

s. "They must live," said my friend, "and we will give them our mite in partnership." So he added two sous to those I had given him, and tossed them to the beggars. This was genuine

once the band commenced playing some operatic airs of exquisite beauty. Now a gay and enlivening passage was performed, and then a mournful air, or something martial and soul-s

drumming," I sai

iers together for battle. You cannot know what a thrill of horror it sent through every avenue of this great city. I got up hastily, and dressed myself and ran i

ce in Italy. He condemned in unequivocal terms the expedition to Italy, and showed how it violate

refect of the police, at his office,

on of the pamphlet, and very likely his ejection from France. He sent the same letter to the American minister, and the next day answered t

same for policemen-those 'Finders out of Occasions,' as Othello styles them-those 'rough and ready' to choke ideas, as the bud is bit by the venomous worm 'ere it can spread its sweet leaves to the air.' I was about to encounter the

al noticed several portions of your b

ad the right, as a publicist, to write. The world had universally repudiated that expedition, and the president had tacitly done the same in his letter to Colonel Ney, and in dismissing the ministers who planned the expedition. The president being quoted a

, that the pamphlet was untouched

n might not violate his solemn oaths to support the republic-not for lack of disposition, but fearing the people. I could see, however, that my friend had little faith in the immediate future of "poor France," as he called her, as if she were his mother. He thought the reason why the republic would be overthrown, was from the conduct of those who had been at its head in the early part of its history. The republicans, soon after Louis Philippe's flight,

hile walking down Nassau street, in New York, I very

e left Paris. Well, you

l Louis Napoléon forced me to choose exile or

amid the realities of a money-seeking nation. The look upon his face was sad, almost despairing. I certain

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harvests of money-the tricksters, the conjurors, the street fiddlers, and all sorts of men who get their subsistence by furnishing the people with cheap amusements, are in high spirits, for in these seasons they can drive a fine business. Not so in the winter. Then they are obliged either to wander over the half-deserted places, gathering here and there a sou,

s were aroused, and he asked the large traveler a few leading questions. He protested that he was innocent of any attempt to defraud the revenues of Paris. The gate-keeper reached out his hand as if to examine the unoffending man, and he grew very angry. His face assumed a scarlet hue, and his voice was hoarse with passion, probably from the fact that he was sensitive about his obesity. But the gate-keeper saw in his conduct only increased proof of his guilt, and finally insisted upon laying his hand upon the suspicious part, when with a poorly-concealed smile, but a polite "beg your pardon," he let the man pass on his way. It is probable the gate-keeper was more rigid in his examinations, from the fact that not long before a curious case of deception had occurred at one of the other gates, or rather a case of long-continued deception was exposed. A man who lived in a little village just outside of the walls, became afflicted with the dropsy in the abdominal re

large woman. I knew of a woman who, in passing the Liverpool custom house, sewed cigars to a great number into her

used to taxation. In the very out-skirts of London there are toll-gates i

view to defend one's self from enemies within, as well as without. Louis Phillippe evidently remembered the past history of Paris, and felt the possibility of a future in which he might like to have the command of Paris with his guns, as well as an enemy outside the wall. But the fortifications and the cannon

ery gradual, by means of a grass-covered bank. While standing upon the summit, a train of cars-came whizzing along at a fine rate. I saw for the first time people riding on the tops of cars as on a coach. The train was bound to Versailles, and

restless breeze; the little peasant huts had a picturesque appearance in the distance, and the laborers at work seemed more healthy than the artisans of Paris. I approached a peasant who was following the plow. I was surprised to find the plow he used to be altogether too heavy for the use to which it was put. Yet I was in sight of Paris, the city of the arts and sciences. Such a plow could no

t as that one. He seemed to catch from his master the idea of their destination at once, and kept continually running around the flock, now stirring them into a faster gait, then heading off some wayward fellow who manifested a strong disposition to sheer off to the right or left, and again turning the whole body just where the master wished. It was an amusin

of money. I found that the mere mention that I was an American, in all such places as this, insured me polite attention, and I could often notice, instantly, the change of manners after I had informed my entertainers of my country. It is but a slight fact

would not come into the garden and drink a glass of wine. The act was a spontaneous one, and arose from good-nature and high spirits. The young American entered, and in the course of a conversation told the company that he was an American. Instantly the scene changed. He was loudly cheered, and one man remarked, with very significant gestures and looks, that "he came from a republic!" Nothing would do but that the guest must sit down and accept of food and wine to an alarming extent. He was, in fact, made so much of, that he became somewhat alarmed, for he was young and inexperienced. I may as well finish the story by saying what was the truth, that so many of the party begged

els in the manufacturing of light and graceful articles of almost every kind. Certainly, in jewelry, cutlery, and all manner of ornamental articles, it is the first city in the world. How comes it, then, that so near Paris, agricultural implements are so far behind the age? I would by no means have the reader infer that the best of agricultural tools are not manufactured in France. Such is not the fact, as the Paris Exhibition proved, but who buys them? Now is it not a significant fact, that within a bow-shot of Paris I found tools in use, which would be laughed at in the free states of America? The true reason for this, is to be found in the condition of the Fr

t buildings in Paris-the Palace d' Orsay. It was beg

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