This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1852 Excerpt: ... my lodgings to behold the great fete, the preparations for which had for so many days engaged the time and the talk of almost everybody in Paris. The weather was dirty, moist; and as there was every appearance that it would become more dull and more moist, I hastened to the Place de la Concorde, the fountains of which ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1852 Excerpt: ... my lodgings to behold the great fete, the preparations for which had for so many days engaged the time and the talk of almost everybody in Paris. The weather was dirty, moist; and as there was every appearance that it would become more dull and more moist, I hastened to the Place de la Concorde, the fountains of which, surrounded by people, I found converted, as I have described, into enormous gilt wicker baskets full of roses, red and yellow, variegated with ruddy-faced apples as big as melons. The goddesses' heads were now completely concealed by bushes formed of the tops of young fir-trees. Encircling the whole there gracefully hung, increasing in size from the ends towards the centres, wreaths composed of 212 ground-glass globe lamps. In various parts of the Place several men were busily fixing fireworks; others, with large paint-brushes, rapidly converting a mass of huge wooden packing-cases into beautiful rocks, among which entire fir-trees had been inserted. In every direction was to be heard the tap and roll of drums, preceding masses of moving bristling bayonets, dully shining over the heads of the crowd through which they were passing. On both banks of the Seine every vessel, and especially the long low baths moored close to the stone pier, were ornamented with flags. As I approached the Pont de la Concorde the concourse of people was immense. "Voila, Messieurs!" I heard everywhere, from voices, high, low, male, female, but already more or less hoarse and worn out, "le Programme detaille de la Fete; la description des Statues, du Rocher de Cascade, pour la bagatelle d'un sou!"1 "Achetez, Monsieur!"2 said to me a stout woman, with a brown, honest, healthy face, ornamented with a long pair of gold earrings, embedded in...
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