Identifier: eightjourneysabr00rose (find matches)
Title: Eight journeys abroad
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Rosengarten, Mary D. Richardson, 1846-1913 Rosengarten, Frank H
Subjects: Europe -- Description and travel Algeria -- Description and travel Palestine -- Description and travel Egypt -- Description and travel
Publisher: Philadelphia : printed for private circulation by J.B. Lippincott Co.
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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drove in the Champs Elyseesand Bois, then F. and I went to the Marlngny and saw abeautiful ballet. The whole Chinese legation was there. Then we spent a day at Fontainebleau, first the Chateau,which is perfectly beautiful, and in Marie Antoinettes finestroom I found my parlor side gas fixtures, much to my delight.Then we drove through the Forest, saw the Gorge Franchardwhich is really remarkable, and the great trees Jupiter and Pharamond, then to the Gorge Apremont, caused by some 298 GERA4ANY terrible cataclysm thousands of years ago, and dined at Bar-bizon, identified as the origin of the Barbizon school of paint-ing, an ideal spot on the edge of the Forest, then we droveback in the twilight and took train to town and rode back ontop of an omnibus in Paris down the Rue Rivoli and a manwho said he was a cook explained everything we passed,through the very heart of old Paris. We left in the afternoon of the next day for BrusselsHotel Bellevue, superb, and found Bellamy Storer had left
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THEATRE MARIGNY, AVENUE BOIS DE BOULOGNE, PARIS that very morning for Spa.; we were so sorry to miss him. Thatevening we went out through a beautiful park back of theHotel to the Ministry of Finance, &c., a palace all illuminatedand the whole city was illuminated, and took a trolley outto the Exposition, which entered the grounds and made acircuit showing everything. The next day we spent the morn-ing in a carriage seeing the town. The old part is so interestingand the new part most impressive—it is certainly a beautifulplace and puts our towns to shame. In the afternoon we wentout to the Fair, but were not impressed as after Chicago such a thing seems tame. 299 EIGHT JOURNEYS ABROAD

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