Last words of Thomas Carlyle - Warburg Institute

:'EXCURSION TO PARIS 185Through dull streets, with some trees, to Ecole Militaireand grand review in Champ de Mars. PoorChamp de Mars, in a very dilapidated, unswept, andindeed quite ugly condition ! Federation * 30 feetof mound is sunk to eight or ten (as I said above),is torn through in many places, isuntrimmed, sordideverywhere,—the place (perhaps 100 acres or more)is altogether dusty, disorderly, waste and ugly. IfFederation slope were tobe completed, trimmed, andkept green with the trees on it ; if any order or carewere shown.—But there is none of that kind, there oranywhere. What strikes you in all public places firstis the dirt, the litter of dust, fallen leaves or whateverthere may be. Eeview going on, worth little : finermen than common about the streets, with thesestrange ftgZZows-shaped red trousers (tight over thehips, tight at ankles, intermediately wide as petticoats),with their strait pinched blue coats and ridiculousflower-pot caps ;men many of them ;good middle-sized, well-grownthey were marching, going onin detail, some resting, not many together anywherehardly worth above a glance or two. Passy andChaillot looked very beautiful across the river.Troopsnow began to take up position and^re,—burn the Eepublic'sgunpowder. I went my way ; inquired of anoldish soldier (not Invalid) about the populous heightsto westwards : it was ' Sevres ' ; St. Cloud not quitevisible here;this is the Pont d'lena (old soldier, verycivil and talkative). I cross by Pont lena ; ascendt B B