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PRESENT OCCUPANTS. 373
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« Every Autumn Sunday The Inhabitants Fr...
ori France ginal for whiteness the use . to which The water it is of lied La Ruisseau and its efficacy is the is acknow best in - app
bleached ledged by the proverb reputation , which blackened says " Gro ; " to , for Meudon the inhabitants to get your of shirt that
or your village within their are argus ken -eyed and the in detecting secret polic the e faults of Paris of those is largel who y come rein-;
procured forced from there that in nei abundance ghbourhood , The as . well Blanc latter as is d' the _EsjDagne found soft in white beds or whit of stone ing about of is
which 24 metres Paris thick is chiefl immediatel y built . below strata which produce several thousand millstones , annuall y as well as large quantities of the
tions stone of used Paris in France have consumed for lining y , such sewers an and enormous quays . quantit The fortifica y of it - ,
that a serie the s of woods excavations covering resembling the highest the plateau catacombs of Meudon , but on grow a much over
larger The scale terrace . of St . Germains en Laye , is said by Macaulay to their
command Sundays From during the the fine summit the st prospect fine of weather the in hill France at facing Meudon , but Queen those enj Mary oy who a ' spend much s Oak , finer rise
the one . woods of Fleury , from among which , peeps forth a picturesque old village of the same name . The air railway lent b viaduct distance , with its it shows triple
tier of archeswears the enchanted y , as itself round at the lar op , covered ening of isles the valley or the , "beyond _Bois de which Boulogne the Seine displays winds its ;
rich verdur pop enone the less beautiful because the result of art . houses fine Farther days stand on , its , the , triump out capital boldl hal of arches France yet , with domes is spread a , certain palaces out beneath , coquetry steeples the , eye _peciiliar and , and gilded on to
lies Paris to , the against north a clear To the blue y , north sky -west . Towering is the lain above of M it onceau Montm , which artre p
. is bounded "b y the hill of Montmorency and Argenteuil .
Emily _Johnstone .
Present Occupants. 373
PRESENT OCCUPANTS . 373
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1863, page 373, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081863/page/13/
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