The Pont Neuf is the ollest and most famous of all the Paris bridges; it was built in the sixteenth century. Close to the bridge on the island is a statue of the French King, Henri Quatre, on hwrselack erected by Louis the Knghteenth, in 1818, in the place of the former seventeenth century statue, which had been dest Vin 1792 during the Great Revolution. The Pont Neuf has been restored of late ye us, On the right bank, close to the Pont d'Aroule, is the beautiful and stately new Hotel de Vi lo.
Just beyond the Pont Neuf, on the left Dank, is the large Hotel des Mon or mint, built at the end of the Ist century it contains @ fine collection of coins of all dates, and the workshops where the money is struck are full of interest; the machinery for producing the coins is very ingenious and of great perfection.
Close by is the extensive Institute de France, founded by Cardinal Mazarin, built at the end of the 17th century. Five different academies have their head quarters here:—(L.) The Académie Fran-caisse, which deals with the French language and its orthography; (2) The Acadé nie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, dealing with ancient long!
(3) the Académie dossel for science and mathematics; (4) the Académie des Beaux Arts, fur sculpture, painting, architecture, and music; and (5 the Académie des Sciences Mo Politiques, for history, philosophy, and political economy. From about this part of the Seine the splendid and gigantic Palace of the Louvre, and the adjuini south wing of the Tuileries, on the right bank of the river, come into sight, and the steamer passes under the Pont des Arts, leading from the Institute' to the Louvre on the left bank is the large Ecole des Beaux Arts, a foundation of the first half og the seventeenth century, but housed in a building of this century, as a school for printing, sculpture, architecture, enzraying, and the cutting of gems. The xchonls are attended by more than twelve hundred students, and many of the greatest artists act as professors.
Next we gu beneath the fine bridge, the Pont clu Catrouse!, which leads from the Place clu Carrousel, inside the south wing of the Tuileries, ty' ong end of the Quai Vobaire on the left bank of the river. The succvedi is the Royal, dating from 1685; it stretches from the west end of the h wing of the re, and to the best of the Rue clu Bie, in which ly situate the famous haberdash ery establishment called the Bon Marche.
'THE HOME OF THE EXtHOrTION, We now pass gardens on the n the Pont de Sol the spacious Tuileries lit bink and go under then further on the right is the mag de la Cone cercle, beyond which gardens and splendid avenue called the CunmpsE retch right away ty the colossal Are do phe de I'Ktend on the left bank is the Clmbre des Dgy which answers to oar Howe of Cv 3 the Place and the Chambre des D are comme by the Pont dela Concorde, from there is a fine view of many of the pri in the ci ast the Cmenede is the handsome new Pont Alexandre ITE, with its inged Horses on their lofty pedestals, built nory of the f the Cave to Paris the autumn of 1896, who went 1 with del Close two new Palais de Beaux Arta; and the left bank, opposite the bridge, the fine Haphuade des Invalides, covered with Echibition build Isto the great Hotel des Invalides, with its lofty gilded dome.
About two hundred yards from the last bridge is the broad Pont des Invalides, and on the right bank, on the other side of the Quai de La Conference, stands the interest.
issuance house called La Maison ovis Premier, built by King Francis ontainebleat, for his sister ret, or fur Diane de Puiticrs, and ts' Paris in 1326.
We pass, on the a large to-Inceo manufactory then we reach the Pont del wried after the wreat the Crimean war, ant a little further the left bank, isthe Garde Meuble' de A museum of aetistie cur bronzes, tapestry, ete.
And now we come, onthe left bink, to the principal mass of the prodigious build ings in the Champ de Mars, fur the Universal Eshibi Tu front, close ne, i the stupendous E-feel Tower, erected between 1887 and 1889. It measures 934 feet in height, and is the loftiest structure in existence. Just opposite, the lwidge called Pont d'Iéa crosses the Seine, and on the right bank, the Pare clu Tro cadero leads to the wide stretching Urientay lace of that name, erected for the Universal Exhibition of 1878.
The Trocud-ce contains an extensive collection of casts of ancient and medieval sculptures, with a few modern ones, and an ethnographical museum Lower down the river are the Pont de Passy, the Islan1 of the Swans, the Pont de Grenelle, the Pont Mirabeau, and the Pont d'Auteuil, where we again come to the fortifications, and the eud of our steamboat journey.
Passy and Auteuil are pleasant, healthy Ysuburbs, lying within the fortifications on the right bank of the Seine, between the river and the spacious and beautiful public park culled the Bois de Boulogne,
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