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aostly Americans. W® wist hav® a reputation for gullibility. > At 
th© Troeadero I ran A*ma into th® garden while th® rest were buying 
postals ana lunching. The lawn is as badly mixed as ours in Washing- 
ton; Boa pratens-t* with patches of ~. annus, Agrostls ep, (creeping 
bent?) and what I think is Festuea heterophylla. Only P. annua is in 
"blocs. 1 saw a Japanese Magnolia in -full bio oh (inspite of the cold 
< and a flurry of snow), lots ®f Forsyfchia, and on® Magnolia grandi- 
flora*. Most of th® tr®®s I do not recognise, ®xo®pt on® that looks 
life® our sycaeor® , and Bust b® th® plana tree. 9® were taken 
to a great panoraiaa called th® "Viotoire." It was an apotheosis of 
victorious war. Th® armi«s ®f each nation of th© Allies were grouped 
about their rul®r@ (I Bean rulers, not leaders, for rulers they were}, 
If Woodrow Wilson's portrait is a fair- sample th® portraits are won- 
derfully good lik/nesses. I thought ®f th® d©ad , the blinded and th® 
cripples that th® painter forgot, th® hatred and th® profits of th® 
war, ana turned mj baok and walked down stairs, Shore, in an obscur® 
place not risible from th® platfora whenc® th® panorama is viewed , was 
th® on® honest thing in th® pictur®: a woman's figure in rusty black, 
utter- heart -break and desolation in ©very line, bow® a be for® th® torib 
of th® unknown dead, gha t is the "victory" of war, I do not know 
who th® artist is, but I r® J ©iced that ®v«n if h® did paint for a pric® 
h® did not ®ntir®ly soil himself, but put in on® bit of sincerity. Th® 
workmanship, entirely asid® from th® sentiment for propaganda) seeeed 
to k® saarvtlous,— We were taken across the river and by the 
louvre, and looked down th® Champs d'Elysaes, and saw various arch«s 
and coluans, all glorifying war, or Rapoleoa-, Mostly both, Th® build- 
ings are largely in th® styl* of our War, State and lavy building (that 
is^ I see our building is modeled after th© Pr®nch). They are too 
fussy and too full of trimming to be pleasing — such ernateneaa would 
