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and color, simulating visible glory resting on his tomb. Many flags
hang along the walls, but as Edenshaw said only one English!
There are paintings in the Church, and a wax image of a dead
Christ in a sort of glass case, before which women were praying
the figure was revoltingly suggestive of the dissecting room. Over
the river to the Palais d Industrie, after a brief visit to the
Champ de Mars, memorable in history. The Palace is a spa-
cious finish building of stone and glass, but nowise comparable with
the Sydenham one, nor so pretty as the luckless New York edifice,
the failure of which it will rival. It has no transepts, and
many parts are still unoccupied and unfinished. Sunday being
a four sous day, the building was pretty well crowded. Many
of the stalls were fine, and the general effect lively. In the
rear is a sort of exposition of the Unadmitted, entrance free, with
stalls and other attractions, but whole rows here are untenanted.
Another Galerie des Beaux Arts, contains pictures and sculpture.
English painters show very well, as do the noble works of Horace
Vernet, with which I was glad to make better acquaintance than
through the medium of prints and lithographs. The Champs
Elysees were all alive, open concerts, (wherein some half dozen
gaily dressed women sit en goddess on a raised stage, under a can-
opy, and sing alternately,) swings, shows, merry go-rounds,
air-boats, tumblers &c were in active operation, despite dullish
weather and threatening rain. We dined at a Palais Royal
restaurant, amid some thirty other groups, took a stroll and
a smoke, looked in toy shops, picture shops, print shops &c, and
then to our hotel; subsequently to a dancing place near the Lux-
| Page |
| Title: | Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries, Volume Seven: page ninety-five |
| Description: | Describes a visit to Napoleon's tomb and the Palais d�Industrie in Paris. |
| Date: | 1855-06-17 |
| Subject: | Edenshaw; Gunn, Charles; Gunn, Edwin; Gunn, Thomas Butler; Napoleon I, Emperor of the French; Travel |
| Coverage (City/State): | [Paris, France] |
| Scan Date: | 2011-02-02 |
| Volume |
| Title: | Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries, Volume Seven |
| Description: | Includes an account of his family history and descriptions of his visits with family and friends in England, witnessing a procession for Louis Napoleon in London, traveling in Paris with his brothers Charley and Edwin, his friend Harry Price's mental illness, his journey across the Atlantic to New York on the ship Washington, the marriage of Fanny Fern and James Parton, meetings of the Ornithoryncus Club in New York, and Alfred Waud's elopement with Mary Brainard. |
| Subject: | Bohemians; Gunn, Thomas Butler; Marriage; Mental illness; Publishers and publishing; Travel; Women |
| Coverage (City/State): | London, England; Paris, France; New York, New York |
| Note: | Thomas Butler Gunn was born February 15, 1826, in Banbury, England, and came to New York in 1849. During the Civil War he worked as a correspondent for the New York Tribune and the New York Evening Post. He returned to England in 1863, and died in Birmingham in April 1903. The collection includes twenty-one volumes of his diaries, including newspaper clippings, letters, photographs, sketches, and various other items inserted by Gunn. Diary entries date from July 7, 1849, to April 7, 1863, and include his experiences with the New York publishing and literary world, his descriptions of boarding houses, his travels throughout the United States, and his experiences traveling with the Federal army as a Civil War correspondent. |
| Publisher: | Missouri History Museum |
| Rights: | Copyright 2011 Missouri History Museum. |
| Source: | Page images, transcriptions, and metadata of the Thomas Butler Gunn diaries have been provided by the Missouri History Museum. |
