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Show COLIS ED!, RO~ I E found here, and do ubtless the very fine t known piece of statuary, the Yenus of 1\1elos, is found in the Loune. Our visit to the 'e centers of Art, Sculpture, Tapestries, and Paintings, was greatly en hc1ncecl by the presence of 1\[iss Ilartwell, who pll intc cl out to us th e artistic merit of hundreds of the finest prod ucts that have found a home in these Galleries. There arc scores of thing. and pl aces that might he spoken of at length, but that i not the in tention of thi Aftert hought. The \ 'e nclomc Column, the Statue oi the Republic, th e olumn of the Bastile, Notre Dame Cathedral, the majestic Eiifcl Tower, the eve r interesting and busy Seine, the Tomb of Xapo leon-these arc things ah~Hlt which volu mes could be written, and in so doing the history of Paris would large ly be told. But we mu t take ju t a little p ep at \ 'e r sai lles befo re leaving this part of our travel s. The ride to th e seat of Louis .'\ '[ was all that coulcl b desired. Louis . 7 \'1 and hh successors built magnificently and li\·ed in real kingly splendor at Versailles until their reig·n was l'nded by the Pevolution. In many respects this Palace is more elahorak tltan \\<lS cn:r erected, and about it and iu it ha\·e been enacted some of the most thrilling and ruciul scenes of which hi story spc~ll-s. The story oi Louis X\'J and l\larie \ntninet te at \"cr:-ailles and their con nection wilh the (;rand :111d I 'et it Tria nons is one of un ex. cclkcl splendor, untold e. travagance and hl'art-l>reakin,t.; culmin:-~tion .\fter h;l\'ino· fared sumptuously in e\ L'IY conceivable respect, the heads tl1at had \\'Prll the Cnmns were obliged tn fall under the sharp ('dge of the guill otine and their bones to ultimately mingle with the multitude hccauSL' of liH· r;n-ag·cs oi the Co mmunists. Pag-e One llundred Twenty-one |