Vincennes. just: beyond the fortifications, about five miles from the Louvre, by tramway from the Plicc clu Louvre." On the way, at the end of the Faubourg St. Antoine, we pass the Phac de la Nation, once Place clu Trone, because here in 160, after the treaty of the Pyrenees, between France and Spain, the "Dien-dooné" Louis the Fourteenth enthroned in state, and received the adul tions of his people.
In the reign of Terror, during June and July, 1794, the guillotine stood in. the Place de ta 'N: There is now a fountain in the midst of the Pi bronze figures by Dalou, triumph of the Republic. the old castle of Vincennes, begun in the twelfth century, and since added to from time to time. "It was for a long time the home of royalty, but wa prison from the fifteenth to the present lookin; The prisoners were confined in famous people among, them i Quatre, when Kin of Navarre Grand Conde, the Cardin: de Retz; Fonquet, the amens. financial Minister ' of Louis' Quatorze; Mirabeau, and others. The Chateau is no longer shown to the ordinary public, and is used an artillery depot, in order to see it, permission must be asked from the Minister of War. The fine Bois de Vincennes lies to the south of the Chateau. It is a beautiful park, something Li the Bois de Boulogne.
The Bois de Vincennes is to the cast-enders, or poorer class als, @ Tecreation ground of the same the Bois de Boulogne is to lo citizens.
The Rois covers <a still larger area than that of the Bois de Boulogne, but Vincennes is rather spoiled by the large open space in ist. This is chiefly used as an exercising ground for soldiers, a Champ de Maneuvres for artillery practice, while a part is used race-course, the biggest of those Paris. Like the Bois de Boulogne, the Bois de Vincennes was formerly part of a forest. It seems to have been replanted by Louis Quinze, and was made into a public park forty years ago. Tt contains three lakes: the small Lac de St. Mande south of this the large Lake Daumesnil, or ce Charenton, about fifty acres in extent, with two islands; and east of this the Lac des Minimes, covering twenty acres, and containing three islands.
The famous peach orchards of Montreuil lie north of Vincennes; they are said to yield yearly about' twenty million peaches.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.