The doom of St. Cloud was then sealed. On
the 13th of the following October the besieged Parisians beheld the
volumes of flame rising behind the Bois de Boulogne, which told that St.
Cloud, recently occupied by the Prussians, and frequently bombarded in
consequence from Mont-Valerien, had been fired by French bombs.
The steamer for St. Cloud descends the Seine, passing under the Pont de
Solferino, Pont de la Concorde, Pont des Invalides, and Pont d'Alma. Then
the Champ de Mars is seen on the left, the Palais du Trocadero on the
right. After the Pont du d'Iena, Passy is passed on the right, and the Ile
des Cygnes on the left. Then comes the Pont de Grenelle, after which
Auteuil is passed on the right and Javel on the left. After leaving the
Pont-viaduc du Point-du-Jour, the Ile de Billancourt is seen on the left.
After the Pont de Billancourt, the steamer passes between the Iles de
Billancourt and Seguin to Bas Meudon.
III
OLD PROVENCE
The Papal Palace at Avignon
By Charles Dickens
[Footnote: From "Pictures From Italy."]
There lay before us, that same afternoon, the broken bridge of Avignon,
and all the city baking in the sun; yet with an underdone-piecrust,
battlemented wall, that never will be brown, tho it bake for centuries.
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