The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast (1905)
San Francisco, Calif. : Architect and Engineer Co · leaf 219
r-den of the Tuileries: a third side opens into the Champs Elysees: whiletoward the north a handsome street discloses the majestic portal of theMadeleine. Eight statues of colossal size are seated around this square,each symbolizing one of the prominent cities of France, while forty artisticbronze… … flic .liclnUrl and I:ii,i^iiiccr 4i Place of Peace. Hut a nKniieiits reflection almost leads one to believethat the title was given ironically. For on the spot where falls today theshadow of the obelisk rose formerly the hideous guillotine, whose glitter-ing blade in swift succession descended on…
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