Chapter 6

THE PARIS OF 1869.

The devil.--Cathedrals and churches.--The Louvre.--Modern French art.--The Beauvais clock, with its droll, little puppets.--Virtue in a red gown.--The Luxembourg Palace.--The yawning statue of Marshal Ney.--Gay life by gas-light.--The Imperial Circus.--The Opera.--How the emperor and empress rode through the streets after the riots.--The beautiful Spanish woman whose face was her fortune.--Napoleon's tomb. 76