Paris in Old And Present Times
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This effect of being something separate is felt more n8 Paris.
strongly when we come out of the quadrangle by the east entrance, and then look back on Perrault's front. In all the alterations executed about the palaces nobody has ever touched that front ; and, indeed, it is evidently one of those works that do not admit of change. Like all severely classical conceptions, it is an organic whole from which every diminution would be mutilation, and to which every addition would be an excrescence.
...The western front of the Louvre remained extremely simple until the time of Napoleon III. , when a feeble attempt was made to decorate it with some applied or- nament, so that it might hold its own against the new buildings; and when this was found to be impossible it was masked by a new front of adequate magnificence. Until our own time this west front looked upon an accidental agglomeration of the commonest dwelling- houses, which filled what are now the Squares du Louvre and the Place du Carrousel.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
This effect of being something separate is felt more n8 Paris.
strongly when we come out of the quadrangle by the east entrance, and then look back on Perrault's front. In all the alterations executed about the palaces nobody has ever touched that front ; and, indeed, it is evidently one of those works that do not admit of change. Like all severely classical conceptions, it is an organic whole from which every diminution would be mutilation, and to which every addition would be an excrescence.
...The western front of the Louvre remained extremely simple until the time of Napoleon III. , when a feeble attempt was made to decorate it with some applied or- nament, so that it might hold its own against the new buildings; and when this was found to be impossible it was masked by a new front of adequate magnificence. Until our own time this west front looked upon an accidental agglomeration of the commonest dwelling- houses, which filled what are now the Squares du Louvre and the Place du Carrousel.
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