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StereographEntry/Object ID
2023.055.3.0292Description
A black and white stereograph. Image is of the Champs Elysees as seen from the Arch de Triumph. Above the image "T445 (Star)" is printed, below the image "V24804T Champs Elysees from the Arch of Triumph to the Place de las Concorde, Paris, France." is printed, to the left of the image "Keystone View Company Copyrighted, Underwood & Underwood, Inc. Manufacturers MADE IN U.S.A. Publishers" is printed, to the right of the image "Meadville, Pa., New York, N. Y., Chicago, Ill., London, England." is printed. On the reverse the following is printed:
V24804
THE CHAMPS ELYSEES FROM ARCH OF TRIUMPH, PARIS, FRANCE
This lofty station on the summit of Napoleon's triumphal arch gives a marvelously fine outlook over the city. The square where it stands is called the Place de l'Etoile, representing the Star of Empire, and it is the center of twelve radiating avenues, long and broad and tree-bordered, streching far, far out thorugh beautiful Paris. At this moment we are looking a little south of east. The Elysee Palace, where the President lives, is on the left side of the avenue near where those trees break the line of buildings. The trees massed on both sides of the avenue are in the park which gives its name to the avenue, the "Elysian Fields." Between those trees and others which grow beyond in the gradens of the old Tuileries Palce is the Place de la Concorde, scene of the execution of Louis XVI and marie Antoinette and almost three thousand other victims of the French Revolution. Notre Dam's two dark square towers rise a little farther away at the right from the old City Island in the Seine. Louis XVI and his family were brought into Paris in 1789 from Versailles ten miles away behind us, down this very avenue surrounded by a hideous, howling mob.
Now this stately avenue may still see private tragedies going on, but everything has a gay exterior, for the Champs Elysees, especially on Sunday afternoons, is the favorite Parisian promenade. It figures over and over again in the writings of the brilliant, beauty loving Parisians themselves. They love its sunshiny bravery of fine motor cars and beautiful women, lovely to look at as flowers, its ceaseless, shifting, twinkling, sparkling movement of forms and faces. It is like a charming pageant on the stage of a theater.
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