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A large number of the latter are known to be suicides, and are recovered from the waters of the Seine, close at hand. The daily scenes occurring in the gardens of the Tuileries, which open from the Place de la Concorde, are characteristic.
Serge was weighing the question. Herzog was happy; he had shown himself to all Paris in company with Madame Desvarennes's son-in-law. He had already realized one of his projects. The carriage was just passing down the Champs Elysees. The weather was lovely, and in the distance could be seen the trees of the Tuileries and the different monuments of the Place de la Concorde bathed in blue mist.
And wonder of wonders! mine came back to me just now on the Pont de la Concorde. 'Twas he without a doubt and, would you believe it, he had not suffered so very much from his sojourn among those musty papers. The very moment he arrived I found myself again, I recognized my own existence, whereof I had not been conscious these ten years.
For me, I am determined to test it." "Still you're in love with her." "Agreed, agreed, agreed. A man must have a spur to knowledge." We parted at the Place de la Concorde, and I strolled on alone to my hotel. Vohrenlorf was waiting for me, a little anxious, infinitely sleepy. I dismissed him at once, and sat down to read my letters.
The Tuileries Place de la Concorde The Egyptian Obelisk Palais Royal Residence of Robespierre A Visit to the Room in which Charlotte Corday killed Marat Church de Notre Dame Palais de Justice Hotel des Invalids National Assembly The Elysee. PARIS, August 28. Yesterday morning I started at an early hour for the Palace of the Tuileries.
A square, like the Place de la Concorde, or even the inside of a cathedral, produces a feeling of size almost, if not quite, as great as an open prairie or sea. The reason, I suppose, is that an inclosed space offers definite points as stimuli and goals for suggested movements.
We did not go at that moment to the Hotel-de-Ville, whither a large part of the crowd betook itself by way of the quays, and where the Republic was again proclaimed; but returned to the Place de la Concorde, where some thousands of people still remained. Everybody was looking very animated and very pleased.
Since the accession of the consular government, it has been appropriated to the sittings of the Legislative Body, on which account the palace has taken their name, and over the principal entrance is inscribed, in embossed characters of gilt bronze: PALAIS DU CORPS LEGISLATIF. The palace stands on the south bank of the Seine, facing the Pont de la Concorde.
"Hurra, lads, we'll give it her if she does." They watched her eagerly. She was steering to the northward under all sail. There could be little doubt that she was in pursuit of the "Concorde."
Captain Saumarez received at the same time information of the number of ships expected from the different islands in both the convoys, took the Concorde and Thames under his command, and sailed from Spithead on the 26th of July 1793.
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