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Paris in old and present times (1885)

Hamerton, Philip Gilbert, 1834-1894 · Boston, Roberts brothers · leaf 291

An illustration from Paris in old and present times, 1885, leaf 291
n gains in apparent liberty bythe width of his neighbors field. The garden of theTuileries has the Place de la Concorde and then theChamps Elysees, with the long and broad avenue be-yond, up to the triumphal arch. There is a generalfeeling of openness about the Seine, with the ChampsElysees on one… … LA NAUMACHIE, — PARC DE MONCEAU. and seats and cool draughts of Vienna beer. The word fields is too ambitious. There is nothing here but alittle wood with tidy walks, and grass kept green byperpetual spray, — altogether a pleasant small substitutefor real nature, hke the rivulet fed by the…

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