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play at Versailles on June 28th and watched the transformation of the Champs-Elysée from a broad avenue with "islands" along its way, into a victors path strewn with garlands and decorated artistically with manifold devices; while grand stands encroached into the width of the street and the islands disappeared to make the lane an undivided one. The Place de la Concorde was transformed likewise into a square whose power of expression was thereupon chameloned from stateliness to an intense feeling of surge-in-the-chest -- if you can get me.