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"The Parisians all say that the Paris of 1849 is not at all the Paris of Louis Philippes time, everything is comparatively dull. Republics are proverbially more commonplace and dead more in a manner of fact the Kingdoms and the Marquis having disappeared me of course loose sight of his splendid equipage as he rolls along the Champs Elysees..."

"There is something insubstantial about the place, the people are so very polite and so miserably selfish they will sympathize with your misfortunes verbally for hours, but if you should ask them for a few sous to help you out of your difficulty, they will shrug their shoulders and laugh at you; if a man is drowning, an Englishman or American will instantly jump in and endeavor to save him, a Frenchman will wring his hands and weep, dance and yell..."

"But then again the Champs Elysees and Tuilleries are the most beautiful places I ever saw..."

Original letter courtesy of the Delaware County Historical Association Archives, Delhi, NY