NOTRE DAME CATHEDRAL FROM THE SOUTHWEST : PARIS 



"And as for Paris, who does not know her beauties? — the beautiful quays by the smooth- 

 flowing river, the magnificent bridges, the towering sublimity of Notre Dame" (see text, p. 487) . 



of human passion would shake civiliza- 

 tion until not one stone of its foundation 

 was left upon another. In Paris, benches 

 were arranged around the scaffold of the 

 guillotine and rented to spectators, like 

 seats in a theater, and women came out 

 with their knitting to watch, unappalled, 

 the swiftly changing scenes of the horrid 

 drama. A special sewer had to be con- 

 structed to carry off the blood of the 

 victims. 



At last there arose one who, on the 

 floor of the assembly, dared denounce 

 Robespierre as a tyrant. That denuncia- 

 tion broke the spell. Robespierre was 

 forced to take a dose of his own medi- 

 cine, and the people greeted his fall 

 with demonstrations of unbounded joy. 

 France's horrible nightmare was over. 



She had awakened from her ghastly 

 dreams. 



Awakened, she looked for a hand that 

 could control and direct the wonderful 

 force that grew out of the Revolution. 

 That hand was found, and it was Napo- 

 leon's. 



THE CODE NAPOLEON 



Napoleon's career sounds more like a 

 tale of romance out of the East than a 

 true story out of the West. So trans- 

 cendental was his genius that a clever 

 curate, writing a skit on skepticism, de- 

 clared that the Emperor was non-exist- 

 ent, since no man in human history had 

 been able to accomplish the things attrib- 

 uted to Napoleon. Some one has beau- 

 tifully said of him that he was "an auto- 



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