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Title: Paris past & present
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Haynie, Henry
Subjects: Paris (France) -- Description and travel Paris (France) -- History
Publisher: New York : F. A. Stokes company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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in memory ofthe earliest inhabitants, the place was namedParis. Let me here attempt to picture the site ofthis great and ancient town, as seen from thehigh teiTace of St. Cloud, whereon the Lanternede Demosthene stood previous to the war withGermany in 1870. Before us opens a plaindominated on every side, near or in the middledistance, by heights and hills. Those farthestoif, beginning on our left and going all the wayaround to where we stand, are: the low col-lines of Gennevilliers with Mt. Valerian boldlyprominent; St. Germain and its magnificentteriace ; Poissy, and then Pontoise ; the hills ofMontmorency; the hillocks of Vanjours; thebluff of Champigny; the heights of Villejuif,and those of Montrouge; and, finally, thewooded slopes of Meudon. The nearer uplifts,those within the fortifications, are the moun-tain of Sainte Genevieve, the isolated hillockof Montmaitre, the heights of Belleville and ofMenilmontant, and the smart rise of groundtowards where stands the noble Arc de Tri-
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,^r-^^ PARIS l>r THE TWELFTH UENTLKY. PEIMITIVE DAYS OP THE PAKISES. 15 omplie. Inside of this vast amphitheatre oflow and lofty hills, serpentines the river Seinewith the capital stretching along both its banks,and all this wide basin was, in that epoch calleddiluvian, a great lake. By-and-by, however,after centuries on centuries of erosion, and whenthe site had passed its quarternary period, itsglacial period, all its other prehistoric periods,the waters began to retire, finally drying upaltogether, so that the plain we are overlooking,and the stream seeking its way to the ocean,are all that is left of the inland sea that oncecovered the now Parisian land where the smalltown of Lutetia was started in the long ago.Why so-called no one has yet been able to dis-cover; enough for us to say, Caesar willed itso, and in due course of time he visited his newpossessions. A while later the Romans came in numbersto remain; for their rule was, that when theyhad gained a country they installe

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