Throughout Paris, meanwhile, until e hour, a spirit of festivity recalling the atmosphere of Armistice lit in 1918, gave the capital an spect of joyful animation. The Champs Elysees districts were especially festive in appearance, being enifrely beflagged and illuminated.
Nime powerful projectors brightened the skies, while other food-lights, concealed under trees in the main thoroughfares, cast a brilliant glow on buildings, monuments and fountains. In the Champs Elyse a huge crowd of cheerful Parisians today Never have the two countries been se closely united" commented a Parisian after be had read the published speeches of the King and sident. To mark the occasion, the and French national anthems were sung in the streets, not altogether correctly but wholeheartedly.
When British sovereigns the returned from the reception at the Presidential palace to their apartments in the Quai d'Orsay, the dense throng crowding the road at this point, broke out into frenzied cheering. gathered to admire the fireworks set off on the Eiffel Tower and to cheer Clemenceau Statue Floodlit the royal visitors when Their Majesties were returning to their quarters from the Palais de I'Elysee.
Within severa! kilometres of the Champs Elysees. trafüic could hardly be kept on the move. All buses and most cars were decorated with the British and French colours, while in cruising taxis. enthusiastic youths stood up, waved flags and cried out, "Vive lo Roi. Vive la Reine" "Vive la France" and "Vive la Paix."
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