Description of Paris.--Place Louis XV.--Palais
Bourbon.--Triumphal arch of Neuilly.--Champs Elysees.--The
Louvre.--Its gallery of paintings, and museum.--Excellent
arrangement of the statues.--The Italian school.--Progress of
the French school of painting.--The Jardin des Plantes.--Museum
of Natural History.--Menagerie.--Manners of the
Bourgeois.--Palais du Luxembourg.--King's library.--New
structure at the Place du Carousel.--Pont Neuf.--Eglise de
Notre Dame.--Ste. Genevieve.--Sepulture in that church.--Church
of St. Sulpice.--Dome of the _Invalides_.--The Halle aux
Bleds.--Pillar of the Place Vendome.--Young Napoleon.--Duc de
Bordeaux.--Preponderance of Russia.--History of the "Victoires
et Conquetes, &c."--Model of the elephant, designed for the
Place de la Bastille.--Le Marais.--Agreeableness of the
Boulevards.--Great advantage of _quais_.--Hotel Dieu.--La
Morgue.--Manufactory of the Gobelins.--Le Palais Royal. 118