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Title: A university tramp
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Hubbell, Orrin Z
Subjects: Europe -- Description and travel
Publisher: Elkhart, Ind. : G. W. Butler
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ossed the Atlantic with us on theEthiopia and whom we had not seen since our arrival atGlasgow. That evening most of our party attended an operaat the Grand Opera House, the most magnificent placeof amusement in the world. The visitor at Paris will at once notice the conditionof her streets. They are paved with stone blocks cut anddressed to fit closely together, and have wide side walksof stone, and stone curbing. They are kept scrupulouslyclean. Women are employed to scrub and wash them;water for cleaning them is supplied from the hydrants,and not a particle of anything offensive is left for any lengthof time upon them. In proportion as the sun goes downand night advances, the noise and hurry and crowds ofpeople increase upon the streets. Paris sleeps by dayand wakes by night. Paris delights in holidays; Sunday is always such.The omnibuses and street cars, and conveyances leadingout of the city to Versailles, or St. Cloud and elsewhereare crowded on Sunday. We spent the whole of one
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—a:<a. tii S<o UJDC I- o z X o 3 — 257 — Sunday at Versailles. This is a magnificent propertyand is kept in splendid condition. It was once theproperty of the Orleans dynasty and passed from theirpossession with the downfall of Louis Philippe after thedeath of his son, the Duke of Orleans. The palace isbuilt and equipped on the grand scale common to Royalresidences. The grounds are extensive and contain largeforests of stately trees and lakes and fountains and beau-tiful roadways, and smaller buildings. St. Cloud, intimately associated with the history ofNapoleon III. is another beautiful place, and from the gar-dens behind the ruined palace a beautiful view of the cityof Paris is obtained, and prominent among the objects inthe picture thus presented is the gilded dome of the tombof Napoleon, the great. The visitor will not omit a visit to this tomb. It hasbeen described so frequently and so well, that I will notattempt it here. But it is with interest, however, that onelo

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