The Schweizer Family Is Now Extinct.

- ED.

[31] A Casinogesellschaft, still in existence (1908), was founded at Frankfort in 1805, with the object of uniting the aristocratic elements of the city, admittance being freely allowed to distinguished strangers, in particular to the envoys of the Bundestag. The Gesellschaft or club occupied spacious rooms in the house of the once famous tapissier and decorator Major Rumpf, grandfather of the German sculptor of the same name. That building, situated at the corner of the Rossmarkt, was demolished about 1880. - ED.

CHAPTER III

From Bruxelles to Paris - Restoration of Louis XVIII - The officers of the allied armies - The Palais Royal - The Louvre - Protest of the author against the proposed despoiling of the French Museums - Unjust strictures against Napoleon's military policy - The cant about revolutionary robberies - The Grand Opera - Monuments in Paris - The Champs Elysees - Saint-Cloud - The Hotel des Invalides - The Luxembourg - General Labedoyere - Priests and emigrants - Prussian Plunder - Handsome behaviour of the English officers - Reminiscences of Eton - Versailles.

PARIS, August 3rd.

Here I am in Paris. I left Bruxelles the 29th July, stopped one night at Mons and passing thro' Valenciennes, Peronne and St Quentin arrived here on the third day. The villages and towns on the road had been pretty well stripped of eatables by the Allied army, as well as by the French, so that we did not meet with the best fare. In every village the white flag was displayed by way of propitiating the clemency of the Allies and averting plunder.

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