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Title: The world book; (electronic resource) organized knowledge in story and picture
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: O'Shea, M. V. (Michael Vincent), 1866-1932, ed Foster, Ellsworth D., ed Locke, George Herbert, 1870-1937, ed
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: Chicago, New York (etc.) Hanson-Roach-Fowler Co.
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s forthose who seek the latest styles in dress, eventhough it does take first rank as a centerof fashion. It is a center of finance and com-merce, and of education, art, literature andmusic; it is one of the most beautiful and artis-tic municipalities of the world, and also is oneof the worlds greatest fortresses. Encircling itis a wall with fifty-seven gates and nearly onehundred bastions, and within two miles of thecity there are seventeen forts. Outlying for-tresses to the number of nineteen surround anarea of 400 square miles. The wall encloses anarea of about thirty square miles. Outside the wall, to the west, is the greatpleasure ground of the people—the magnificentBois de Boulogne—covering nearly 3,000 acres.Great trees shade the hillsides, meadows, lakesand gardens, and the park has a bird pavilionand aquarium that are famous. This beautifulrecreation ground adjoins the suburb of Bou-logne, one of the numerous interesting townsabout the capital; with these outlying suburbs
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PARIS AND ITS PROTECTING FORTSStrong: as these fortresses are, they were builtin a day before the construction of such guns asthe Germans possessed at the outbreak of theWar of the Nations in 1914, and could not havewithstood a long bombardment. The Germanarmy forced its way within forty miles of Paris inAugust, 1914. Paris is connected with a great network of rail-road and electric lines. Six lines of railwaypass through the city wall. See Fontainebleau ;Saint Denis; Sevres; Versailles. General Description. A distinctive feature ofthe general plan of Paris is the system of PARIS 4495 PARIS boulevards. The greater part of the oldestsection of the city is encircled by what areknown as the Grands Boulevards, built uponthe ramparts constructed in the fourteenth, six-teenth and seventeenth centuries. Beyond theGrands Boulevards are the old suburbs, andthese in turn are enclosed by another circle ofboulevards, coinciding with the ramparts of theeighteenth century. Outside of the latter are

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