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We spent the night at the hotel at Thysville high in the mountains and where it was almost freezing cold. This place is named for General Albert Thys, who was attached to the colonial administration of King Leopold and who founded the Compagnie du Congo Pour le Commerce et l'Industrie, the "Queen-Dowager," as it is called, of all the Congo companies.
One in particular, named Wilhelm Hellpern, first became a Belgian, then as Willy Hellpern a British subject, and finally, with a view to obtaining a place on the Board of the Société Française de l'Industrie Chimique, applied for and received naturalization in France. This "Willy" Hellpern was a representative of the Central Gesellschaft für chemische Industrie. Cf.
From the Arc de Triomphe there was no fighting down the Champs Élysées, but there was a struggle at the Palais de l'Industrie before the troops obtained possession of that building. Under the orders of certain members of the Commune, the Insurgents resisted with a musketry fire. Montmartre kept firing in the direction of the Trocadéro throughout the day.
It is so big you must know it." She was referring to the Palais de l'Industrie. Helene, however, hesitated. "It's a railway station," said she. "No, I'm wrong, I think it is a theatre." Then she smiled and kissed Jeanne's hair, at last confessing as before: "I do not know what it is, my love." So they continued to gaze on Paris, troubling no further to identify any part of it.
On the previous night he had promised Dubuche and Sandoz to call for them at the latter's place at eight o'clock, in order that they might all three go together to the Palais de l'Industrie, where they would find the rest of the band. And he was already an hour behind time.
IX, Part I , Regne de Louis XVI, 1774-1789, by H. Carre, P. Sagnac, and E. Lavisse, especially livres III, IV; Emile Levasseur, Histoire des classes ouvrieres et de l'industrie en France avant 1789, Vol. II , livre VII; Maxime Kovalevsky, La France economique et sociale a la veille de la Revolution, 2 vols.
The Palais De l'Industrie, familiar to all visitors here, as the home of the Salons, the Horse Shows, and a thousand gay fetes and merry-makings, is being torn down to make way for the new avenue leading, with the bridge Alexander III., from the Champs Elysees to the Esplanade des Invalides.
"All this success at length induced the men of Manchester to make a similar display and their example was soon followed by the men of Leeds, and many other of our largest towns. "And then, once more, in the year 1844, the French announced another 'L'Exposition de l'Industrie Francaise' which gained great praise from all who visited it.
And the case is aggravated as I remember Franconi's, which we more or less haunted and which, aiming at the grander style and the monumental effect, blazed with fresh paint and rang with Roman chariot-races up there among the deserts of Twenty-ninth Street or wherever; considerably south, perhaps, but only a little east, of the vaster desolations that gave scope to the Crystal Palace, second of its name since, following not passibus æquis, alas the London structure of 1851, this enterprise forestalled by a year or two the Paris Palais de l'Industrie of 1855.
After that time it seems to me that the remainder of life is good only for producing less important conceptions, forming a natural consequence of the principal conceptions born of the period of youth." See above, Part Two, chapter V. L. Bourdeau, Les Forces de l'Industrie, Paris, 1884.
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