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Truly, I have no sympathies towards
the French people; their eyes do not win me, nor do their glances melt
and mingle with mine. But they do grand and beautiful things in the
architectural way; and I am grateful for it. The Place de la Concorde is
a most splendid square, large enough for a nation to erect trophies in of
all its triumphs; and on one side of it is the Tuileries, on the opposite
side the Champs Elysees, and, on a third, the Seine, adown which we saw
large cakes of ice floating, beneath the arches of a bridge. The Champs
Elysees, so far as I saw it, had not a grassy soil beneath its trees, but
the bare earth, white and dusty. The very dust, if I saw nothing else,
would assure me that I was out of England.
We had time only to take this little walk, when it began to grow dusk;
and, being so pitilessly cold, we hurried back to our hotel. Thus far, I
think, what I have seen of Paris is wholly unlike what I expected; but
very like an imaginary picture which I had conceived of St.


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