THE BOULEVARDS. 



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In these the openings, which are wired over, are surrounded 

 by a thick low hedge of Euonymus or some close evergreen, 

 so that no opening of any kind is exposed to the passing 

 observer. In the centre of each garden there is a long 

 basin and a fountain, the whole being connected and sur- 

 rounded by flowers and grass. Then on each side of these 

 parterres there are very wide avenue footways, each shaded 

 by two lines of Plane trees — a road being on each side of 

 the parterres and tree avenues. For a considerable distance 

 from the Chateau d'Eau, the flower-market that has its head- 

 quarters held there extends down amongst the little railed- 



Fig. 48. 



Place du Trone. 



in parterres, and the effect is altogether very pretty and 

 quite unique. 



Every visitor to Paris must of course have seen the 

 fashionable boulevards stretching from the Madeleine to 

 the Place du Chateau d'Eau, but the great outer systems 

 often escape observation. On the left bank of the Seine among 

 the more remarkable of the exterior boulevards are those of 

 St. Jacques, d'ltalie, d'Enfer, Du Mont Parnasse, and the 

 Avenue de Breteuil; on the right bank the Boulevards 

 Pereire, des Batignolles, Clichy, Eochechouart, de la 

 Chapelle, and de Belleville are amongst the most important, 



