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Fouatain, which he intended should 
be erected on the site of the Bastille. 
This fountain was to consist of an 
enormous elephant, the model of 
which is now to be seen, in plaster-ot- 
paris, on the spot where the Bastille 
formerly stood: it is seventy-two feet 
in height; the jet d’eau is through the 
nostrils of his, trunk, the reseryoir is 
. in the tower upon his back, and one of 
his Jegs contains the staircase for 
ascending to, the large room in the 
inside of his body. The elephant was 
to be executed in bronze, with tusks 
of silver; surrounded by lions of 
bronze, who were to expectorate the 
watct from one cistern to another.— 
Went to the glass-manufactory. The 
art of running glass is due to a French- 
man, named ‘Ihévart, in 1559, This 
manufactory has sent out glasses 102 
inches in heighth. Saw the process of 
silvering and polishing the glass. The 
glass is made chiefly in Picardy. 
Friday, 80th.—Went ito see the 
Gallery of Paintings at the Palais du 
Luxembourg. It consists of paint- 
ings by mcdern French artists; some 
of which are very fine.—Saw the 
apartments of Mary de Medicis, or 
Salle de Rubens, which is not usually 
shown. It was formerly a bed-room, 
but is now unfurnished. The ceiling 
and walls are covered with paintings 
by Rubens, upon a gold ground; and 
the doors of the closets are glass. ‘Whe 
paintings are very fine; and, altoge- 
ther, it is a very elegant apartment.— 
Went also to the Jardin des Plantes: 
the window was pointed out to me, in 
the. old .Louvre, where Charles IX. 
shouted to the people during the mas- 
sacre of the, Protestants. 
Sunday, Sept. Ist.—Went to Tivoli 
Gardens in the evening, where I saw 
the storming of Constantinople, which 
was very fine, and the fireworks beau- 
tiful. Here also were the Russian 
mountains, good rope-dancing, a thea- 
tre, (in which there was singing, and a 
burlesque tragedy,) fortune-telling, 
anda band of music for dancing. ‘The 
gardens were illuminated, but, in that 
respect, not equal to our Vauxhall. 
; manaey: 2d,—Went to the English 
ambassador’s, .to get our passports 
changed, 
fuesday, 3d.— Went to Mal Maison, 
St. Cloud, St. Germains, and to the 
little fair in the forest. Mal Maison 
was the favourite retreat of Bona- 
parte, aud residence of Josephine. 
‘The furnitare of the study remains the 
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same,—the chair, table, inkstand, &e. 
which he used to sign his last abdica-. 
tion.. The bed-room is yery elegant, 
being lined with crimson and, gold: a 
picture of Josephine is there. The 
Emperor of Russia and. King _ of 
Prussia paid this lady a visit in May 
1814, and on. the following day, she 
died. The Palace of St. Cloud is 
very elegantly. furnished, and_is, the 
summer-residence of Louis XVIII. 
The hed-rooms, of the Duchess of 
Angouleme and of, the Duchess. of 
Berry excel all the other rooms-in the 
elegance of the furniture; that of the 
Duchess of Angouleme was. the bed- 
room of her father Louis X VI, and the 
_Duchess of Berry’s was that of the 
queen’s, Marie Antoinette: they are 
contiguous, without appearing to be 
so,—the partition being a moveable 
glass, which is the usual manner of 
bed-rooms in France. There isa fine 
gallery of paintings, vases, &c. in this 
palace ; among which is a beautiful 
portrait of Marie Antoinette.--On our . 
road we stopped at Marly, to sce the 
machine, invented by Liegeois Renne- 
quin Salem, for raising water 500 feet 
above the river Seine.—Walked. on 
the terrace of the park of St. Germains, 
which is 1200 fathoms in length, is 
covered with verdure, and commands 
a fine view. The palace contains 1100 
rooms.—Wenut to the fair I’'Horloge, 
amile and a half in the forest: the 
royal family had been there in_ the. 
morning. 
Wednesday, 4th.— Went to St.Den- 
nis, which is celebrated for an abbey, 
founded by Dagobert I. in 613, who 
was the first king that was interred 
there; and the Abbey of St. Dennis 
has been from its ongin the place of 
sepulture of the kings of ’rance. Saw 
the tombs, of. Pepin,, Cloyis I. and 
Charlemagne, of the thirteenth cen- 
tury. In 1793, the coffins of kings 
queens, princesses, and celebrate 
men, who had been buried there du-- 
ring fiftecn centuries, were dug up to 
procure lead, There isa lamp con- 
stantly burning in, the vault of the 
Prince of Condé.,; ‘fhe bones of Louis 
XVI. and Marie ,;Antoincite were 
collected, and a pillar and cross erect- | 
ed to mark the spot. The altar is 
yery elegant, and there,are a pair of 
large massive gold candlesticks, which 
were given by Napoleon. In_ this 
abbey there is a beautiful marble 
figure. of Maric Antoinette, knecling, 
in the act of praying. 
Thursday, 
