Last words of Thomas Carlyle - Warburg Institute

EXCURSION TO PARIS 177twenty years apart : eheu, eheu ! The streets badall got trottoirs, the old houses seemed older andmore dilapidated :crowds of poor-looking people, hereand there a well-dressed man, going as if to his*office ' (bourgeois, in clean linen and coat) ; verysmall percentage of such, and all smoking.in Place des Victoires :Louis XIV.*Comment ? ' said I to two littledumpy men in white wide-awakes: *Est-ce qu'on alaisse cela, pendant la republique ? 'good-humoured affirmation.They grinned aHomewards by the PalaisEoyal ; said Palais Royal very dirty, very dim ; hardlyanybody in it : neiv in the southern part ; LouisPhilippe's Palace made into an exhibition place forArts et Metiers. Emerge then, after some windingsand returnings, into the Eue St. Honore ; heart of theold Louvre and Carrousel almost gutted out, block ofhalf-demolished buildings still standing ; very dusty,very dim, all things. In the narrow streets and poordark shops, &c., such figures, poor old women, littlechildren, the forlorn of the earth. 'How do theyone asked oneself with sorrow and amazement.live?'— Catarrh general still in our party, catarrh or otherillness universal in it. Better get home as soon aspossible ?After breakfast, with Lord Ashburton to call onGeneral Cavaignac, whom we understood to be intown, of all Frenchmen the one I cared a straw to see.Eue Houssaie where it joins as continuation to EueTaitbout, north from Boulevard des Italians ; there inA A