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Woodville Examiner, Volume XXVIII, Issue 4627, 14 May 1915, Page 4 (Supplement)

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The panegyrists of Augustus declared that bo found Rome brick, and left it marble. The encomium, as generally happens, was an exaggeration, an there is every reason to believe the Ancient Rome owed less to the heir c Caesar than modern Paris owes to the two Napoleons. With both the latter the beautific tlon of Paris was an object of polio and though Napoleon the Less was tut greatest benefactor, aided by Baron Haussman, still, Napoleon the Great led the way with some of^ the most strikimembellishments. Prominent among these is the Arc de Triomphe, through which the city is entered from the Bois dt Boulogne, and though that comparatively recent addition, the Eiffel Tov-c is unquestionably more conspicuous, lacks the glorious associations of ■_ Arc. The first, like our Crystal Palace, lint tlie survival of an exhibition. second is a monument to all the glo of France in France’s most glot, epoch. For it was at the zenith of poleon!s career that it was ordered to constructed by Imperial decree, dat February.lß, 1806, and in the follow?' May it was begun; but when Napol fell, in 1814, the work was still far fr completion. The restored Bourl were in no way anxious to rear meials to the glory of the other, and it not until Charles X. fled from Fr that the work was resun The Citizen-King, however, proless hostile to the memory of the 1 peror, whose remains were removed his reign from St. Helena to the valide.s, and in 1833 operations were sumed by virtue of a Royal presc dated October 9. Thenceforward construction went steadily, if slow forward, and on July 29, 1836, the f ished structure was formally inaugura. ed.