Excerpt from High-Ways and by-Ways, or Tales of the Roadside, Picked Up in the French Provinces, Vol. 3 of 3 As they moved onwards, following the course of the Seine, along its southern side, the hum of the city gradually died away. They lefi the Hotel of the Invalids behind them towards the left, and passed parallel to the military school, and the Champ de Mars, where the Pontde Jena now stands, and opposite to the since projected site of the palace of the king of Rome. The night was dark, and the river was visible below ...
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Excerpt from High-Ways and by-Ways, or Tales of the Roadside, Picked Up in the French Provinces, Vol. 3 of 3 As they moved onwards, following the course of the Seine, along its southern side, the hum of the city gradually died away. They lefi the Hotel of the Invalids behind them towards the left, and passed parallel to the military school, and the Champ de Mars, where the Pontde Jena now stands, and opposite to the since projected site of the palace of the king of Rome. The night was dark, and the river was visible below them only by the light of the lamm which lined its banks, reflected deep into its bosom, and seem ing a regular colonnade of brill'nnt pillars rising from the bottom of the stream. Cornelius was silent, for his mind was filled with thought, and. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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