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rest. The next morning I set out insearch of a lodging, and at length foundone which suited me, in the Petite rueverte, Fauxbourg St. Honore, which Iengaged at thirty francs per month. Myroom afforded a good specimen of splendidfilth:—beautiful yellow silk curtains anda dirty bed; a fine marble chimney-piece,adorned with a dial supported by goldencupids above an hearth containing the ac-cumulations of a winter’s wooden ashes,never cleaned, and never likely to be so—elegant satin sofas and a greasy brick floor.

The first object of attention is undoubt-edly the noble square of the Thuilleries,and the gallery of 1600 feet long, whichforms one side of it, and joins it to theLouvre. The upper part is open from oneend to fae other, and contains the mostsplendid and valuable collection of paint-ings in the world. In the lower part arethe statues, among which the most conspi-cuous are the Laocoon *, Apollo Belvi-

See Appendix , 3.