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The whole of this space was under cul- tivation except the Cours-la-Reine, which had already been planted by Marie de Medicis. At the end of these shady, though not very agreeable walks, we iind an extensive area, denominated, according to the fancy of individuals, the Place Louis XV. — Louis XVL — de la Revolution — de la Concorde. Standing in the middle of this Place, the spectator beholds Paris in its most agreeable and imposing atti- tude. Looking towards the river, he sees before him the P...ont de la Concorde, covered with colossal sta- tues of tlie great men of France, and leading to the PARIS AND ITS KELIOION. 163 Cliambre des Deputes. In the opposite direction, where every house seems a palace, the view terminates with the beautiful church of tlie ^ladeleine. (Jn his right ai'e the gardens of the Tuileries, with the palace at the bottom of their majestic walks ; on his left, the ascending line of the Avenue de Neuilly, carried through the Elysian Fields, and terminating in the triumphal arch of I'Etoile, If you fill up the vacuities and background of this picture with the steep roofs, and towers, and domes of the city, your imagination will have achieved a view of Paris only inferior to the original.
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