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Updated: July 15, 2025
Un homme avoit parie 25 louis qu'il traverseroit le grand bassin des Thuileries par un froid tres rigoureux; il alla jusqu'au milieu, renonca a son entreprise, et revint par le meme chemin en disant, "J'aime mieux perdre vingt-cinq louis que d'avoir une fluxion de poitrine."
All this territory forms part of the district known as the "Bassin de Paris." Then came a turn in the tide of war and the German plans were temporarily lost sight of when the Allies assumed the offensive along the Marne and the Ourcq and the Germans began to fall back. For four days their retreat continued.
Bassin and Lagoutte, taught us to vault on horseback, astride and sitting, and standing upright after every fashion, in fact.
To the south of the old port was a marsh; the rectangular canal and the Bassin du Carenage mark the position of this marsh, now built over a marsh that reached to the base of the limestone hills that rise to the peak now occupied by Notre Dame de la Garde.
And Gaudin, and Laprade, Blouin, and Roussel, old Christofle Roussel of Beau Bassin, Duhon, Roman and Simonette Le Blanc, and Judge Landry, and Thériot, Colonel Thériot, Martin, Hébert again, Robichaux, Mouton, Mouton again, Robichaux again, Mouton oh, I've got 'em all! Castille, Beausoleil cousin of yours? Yes, he said so; good fellow, thinks you're the greatest woman alive."
Hamburg being a Free Port, travellers leaving for any other part of Germany had to undergo a regular Customs examination at the railway station, as though it were a frontier post. Hamburg impressed me as a vastly prosperous, handsome, well-kept town. The attractive feature of the place is the "Alster Bassin," the clear, fresh-water lake running into the very heart of the town.
They were never tired of watching the hydraulic cranes, of inspecting the dry docks; the intertwining railways by which all the docks, large and small, are connected, and the two basins, Le Petit and Le Grand Bassin. "Dear me!" exclaimed Jasper, on one of these occasions, "I thought Amsterdam docks were huge affairs, but Antwerp!"
In going to keep this appointment as was his habit on such occasions, in avoidance of possible spying upon his movements he went deviously: taking a cab to the Bassin de Carènage, as though some maritime matter engaged him, and thence making the transit of the Vieux Port in a bateau mouche.
A flight of 103 steps lead down to an iron gate on the road to Brest. Bassin Latone is surrounded by a semi-circular terrace crowned with yew-trees and a range of statues and groups in marble. This fountain consists of five circular basins rising one above the other in the form of a pyramid, surmounted by a group of Latona with Apollo and Diana.
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