VOLUME III MEUSE-ARGONNE BATTLE (MONTFAUCON, ROMAGNE, ST MENEHOULD)

_=A panoramic history and guide=_

_Price_ =$1=

MICHELIN & Cie., CLERMONT-FERRAND MICHELIN TYRE Co. Ltd., 81 Fulham Road, LONDON, S. W. MICHELIN TIRE Co., MILLTOWN, N. J., U. S. A.]

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BEAUTIFUL FRANCE

_Paris and its environs_

_PARIS_--home of grandeur, elegance, and wit--plays a part in France probably unequalled in any other country, and may be considered, in many respects, as the chief city of Europe, and one of the greatest in the world. Above all, it possesses eminently national qualities which ten centuries of refinement and taste have handed down to contemporary France.

It is impossible, in a few lines, to paint the exceptional charms of Paris which the whole world admires.

Its vistas of the Champs-Elysées seen from the Tuileries and the Arc de Triomphe; of Notre-Dame and the point of the City Island seen from La Concorde Bridge; of the River Seine, the Institute, the Louvre, seen from the Pont-Neuf embankment; Notre-Dame and its quays, seen from the end of St. Louis Island; the panorama of the city seen from the top of Montmartre Hill; the Avenue du Bois de Boulogne and the Bois de Boulogne itself, etc., etc.,--all are of incomparable beauty.

The city’s historical monuments are of inestimable value, and the most famous art treasures are to be found in its Museums.

The surroundings of Paris join the charm of their landscapes to the world-wide fame of their parks and castles: _Versailles_, whose palace and park recall the splendor of the Louis XIV. period, and where the “Trianons” have preserved graceful traces of the Court of Marie-Antoinette; _St. Germain_ with its castle and forest; _St. Cloud_ and its park; _Sèvres_ and its world-renowned art porcelain factory; _La Malmaison_, home of Bonaparte before he became Napoleon I.; _Rambouillet_, _Fontainebleau_, _Chartres_ with its marvelous cathedral, _Maintenon_, _Dreux_, etc.--all these form a girdle round Paris such as no other metropolis in the world can boast of.

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MICHELIN TOURING OFFICES

MICHELIN TYRE CO., Ltd., LONDON Touring Office :: 81, Fulham Road, S. W.

MICHELIN & Cie, CLERMONT-FERRAND Touring Office :: 97, Boulevard Péreire, PARIS

Drop a line, ring us up, or call at one of our Touring Offices and you will receive a carefully worked-out description of the route to follow.

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Hotels and Motor-Agents AT CHÂTEAU-THIERRY, OULCHY-LE-CHÂTEAU, SOISSONS, FISMES, RHEIMS, EPERNAY, DORMANS.

Information extracted from the MICHELIN GUIDE (1919)[A]

Key to Arbitrary Signs

THE MICHELIN TOURING OFFICES at: 99, Boulevard Péreire, PARIS, and 81, Fulham Road, Chelsea, LONDON, S. W. 3, will be pleased to furnish motorists with advice and information free of charge.

Special itineraries free on request.

[A] _The above information dates from March 1st, 1919, and may no longer be exact when it meets the reader’s eye. Tourists are therefore recommended to consult the latest edition of the “Michelin Guide to France” (English or French), before setting out on the tour described in this volume._