Paris

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Excerpt from Paris: Past and Present Across the bridge on the Quai du Louvre you may still find, amongst many a homely barge, cheery commandants and happy families who, if you show the spirit of good camaraderie, willwelcome you to a passage to where they are bound, or for four sous the little steam bateaux-parzkz'em will carry you from Charenton up the river to St. Cloud and Suresnes. As evening approaches, there is perhaps nothing more wonderful than the river and quays as seen from the quaint little steamer creeping up at dusk, with the water lashing at its bows. All the city buildings dream of the past, sentinel soldier supports at the Pont de l'alma watch you sul lenly as you approach, and the ¿ickering, re¿ecting lights dance in the water like variegated stars as the little boat cuts through them and loses them again by the Quai des Tuileries, to glide round the boat-shaped Ile de la Cité and its attendant Ile St. Louis. Artists and historians alike could spend months on both these islands and never exhaust their picturesque attractions and story. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.