Told by the Colonel

Told by the Colonel

Told by the ColonelFour Americans were sitting in the smoking-room of a Paris hotel. One of them...
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Author: Alden, W. L. (William Livingston),1837-1908
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Told by the Colonel

Told by the Colonel

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Told by the Colonel

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Author: Alden, W. L. (William Livingston),1837-1908
Format: eBook
Language: English

Told by the Colonel

Four Americans were sitting in the smoking-room of a Paris hotel. One of them was a grizzled, middle-aged man, who sat silent and apart from the others and consumed his heavy black cigar with a somewhat gloomy air. The other three were briskly talking. They had been three days in Paris, and had visited the Moulin Rouge, the tomb of Napoleon, and the sewers, and naturally felt that they were thoroughly acquainted with the French capital, the French government, and the French people. They were unanimously of the opinion that Paris was in all things fifty years behind the age, and at least sixty behind Chicago. There was nothing[2] fit to eat, drink, or smoke in Paris. The French railway carriages were wretched and afforded no facilities for burning travellers in case of an accident. The morals of French societyas studied at the Moulin Rougewere utterly corrupt, owing possibly to that absence of free trade in wives and husbands which a liberal system of divorce permits. The French people did not understand English, which was alone sufficient to prove them unfit for self-government, and their preference for heavy five-franc pieces when they might have adopted soft and greasy dollar bills showed their incurable lack of cleanliness. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 68468
Author: Alden, W. L. (William Livingston)
Release Date: Jul 7, 2022
Format: eBook
Language: English
Publisher: J. Selwin Tait & Sons
Publication Date: 1883
Publisher Country: United States

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Illustrator: Hurst, Hal, 1865-1938 , Jack, Richard, 1866-1952

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