Paris and Environs: With Routes from London to Paris

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K. Baedeker, 1913 - 549 pagina's
 

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Pagina 431 - These rooms contain handsome furniture and ornaments of the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th cent.: Furniture by Jacob; clocks and sconces by Thomire, Delafontaine, and Lepautre; goldsmiths' work by Biennais, Auguste, and Odiot.
Pagina 242 - Cascade issues from an artificial grotto and falls 23 ft. into a large pool. Straight on, to the W., within private grounds, rise the mill and two towers of the old Abbaye de Longchamp, founded in 1256 by Isabelle de France, sister of St. Louis, and notorious at the end of the 18th cent, for the fashionable and extravagant revels held here at the 'sacred concerts
Pagina 12 - ... fee). Most of the cafes are well supplied with French newspapers, but foreign journals are scarce. As a rule the cafes are open until 1 am The best cafes may be visited by ladies, though Parisiennes of the upper class rarely patronize them. Some of those on the N. side of the Boul. Montmartre should, however, be avoided. — Good bands play in the evenings at many of the cafes and brasseries, especially on the boulevards. Cafes-Concerts, see p. 39. When coffee is ordered at a cafd in the early...

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