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PARIS HERSELF AGAIN IN 1878-9 - GEORGE AUGUSTUS...

I went to Paris at the end of the first week in July  last year  intending to remain a
fortnight in the French capital   and I returned from Paris to London on the twenty-third of
November  on the eve of my birthday: when I was fifty years of age. I mention these dates  and
I have kept the circumstance of my fiftieth birthday in mind  for a purpose which I shall
afterwards explain. I have rarely enjoyed myself so thoroughly and so heartily  and I am sure
that I have not  these many years past  suffered so much physical discomfort as I did during
nearly five months' residence in Paris. As to the discomfort  I am not  of course  speaking of
old times  when one was young and struggling and desperately poor  nor do I allude to such
privations as must be endured now and again when a man is travelling in partially-civilised
countries  or abiding in partially-civilised cities  such as Constantinople  and I must frankly
own that no inconsiderable proportion of the lack of comfort which I experienced in Paris was
altogether of my own choosing. There are many new  spacious  clean  and airy hotels in Paris 
and I could have obtained  at no very extortionate rates  comfortable and luxurious apartments
at the Grand or at the Louvre  at the Continental or at the Splendide  at the Chatham or at the
Lille et Albion. But in July 78 the Paris Universal Exposition was at its flood. Thousands of
strangers from all parts of the world were arriving in the capital every week   and all the
hotels in the fashionable quarters  from the Rue de Rivoli to high up in the Champs Elysees 
and from the Rue de la Chaussee d'Antin along the Boulevards to the Madeleine  were thronged to
repletion with English people. [...] Reprint of the wonderful description of a journey to Paris
in the year of the world expo 1878  originally published in 1882.

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