PARHELION 



M'.tl 



PARIS 



MOTHBS 



4 --TE.\ciitK Assa MI: 



tal.- nl ice. raindrops or tin- minute particle- 

 that con.-titut" cloud.-: in other words, they 



PARHELION, i>nhrh< 'It on, a fal>e sun. ap- are due to the i of ice cry.-tals in the 



much like the Bun, and seen apparently air. Parhelia may be double, triple or even 



the edge of 'lie real sun. Parhelia (the more numerous, and are always connected with 

 plural of parhelion) are due to modification- j one another by a white halo or circle 

 which light undergoes when it falls on cry-- CORONA; Il\i.> 



.ARIS, imir'i*. tin capital and metropolis 

 of the French republic, next to London the 

 city in Kurope. and the third city in the 

 world, is situated in Northern France, on both 

 banks of the River Seine. It is 2So miles south- 

 London, by way of Dover and C'alai.-. 

 and lies in th< ci-nier of a level plain which tin- 

 Seine :om .-oiitheast. to northwest. 

 By reputation Pan- i.- the world's "city of 

 plea-ure." The very name .-ui^e.-ts at once a 

 place bubbling over with the joy of life "the 

 eradlt of the lYe.-heM thought, the newest fa.-h- 

 iun and the late.-t luxury; the paradise of pleas- 

 ; the most attractive jewel that jrlit- 

 ter- in the coronet of Mother Karth." So writes 



all enthu-i 



Such a characterization of the metropolis of 



nch people is not un.iu-t or exaggerated 

 in ordinary time-, but during the dark days of 

 th( War of the Nation.-, when the city was 

 thr-atened with -ie<:e and bombardment. Paris 



! it. -elf to IM B sober, earnest community 



pie who weighed at it- true value the 



\hich they faced. The city in peace 

 time.-, too. is much more than a rende/x mi- for 



.ho - ek the late-t >|yl< - 111 (Ire . c\CM 



though it doe- take fir.-t rank B a c< nter 

 of fashion. It i- of linaiie.- ,;iid com- 



merce, and of ducai ion. art. literature and 

 music; it is one of the mo.-t beautiful and arti.-- 

 tic municipalities of the world, and also 

 of the world's greatest fortrt -.-e.-. Kncircling it 

 i- a wall with fifty-seven gates and nearly one 

 hundred bastions, and within two miles of the 

 city there are seventeen forts. Outlying for- 

 tresses to the number of nineteen surround an 

 area of 40U square miles. The wall end' 

 area of about thirty square in: 



I Mltside the wall. K. ;lie west . is 1 In 

 pleasure ground of the people the magnificent 

 Hois de Boulogne covering nearly 3.000 acres. 

 Great trees shade the hillsides, meadow.-, lakes 

 and gardens, and the park has a bird pavilion 

 and aquarium that are famous. This beautiful 

 recreation ground adjoins the suburb of Bou- 

 logne, one of the numerous interesting town- 

 about the- capital; with these outlying suburbs 



PARIS A XD JTS PROTECTING FORTS 



SinmK as tin-sir fortresses are, they were built 

 in a day before th<- construction of such .mins aa 

 the Germans- possessed at the outbreak of the 



War of the Nations in lull, and rould not luive 

 withstood a long bombardment. The German 

 army forced its way within forty milu.s of Paris in 

 August, p.n !. 



Pai'is is connected with a great network of rail- 

 road and electric lines. Six lines of railway 

 i taae t hrough the city wall. See FONTAINEBLEAU ; 

 SAINT DEXIS; SEVRES; VERSAILLES. 



General Description. A distinctive feature of 

 the general plan of Paris is the system of 



