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705 [[or 8?]]
at the [[strikethrough]] hotel [[/strikethrough]] West end of the Tuileries overlooking the Place and watched the surging mob which made no [[strikethrough]] [[order??]] motion whatever outside of gigantic waves or ripples which swept across  the whole mess. The din of shouting and cheering was indicative of the prevailing happiness.

So crowds there may be; election night in a New England city; ^[[Broadway and 42nd; State and Madison]] eager tobacco or sugar crowds in wartime Paris; a French town the day before an American division changes base; Paris on the tenth and eleventh of November 1918; Paris on the 28th of June -- but Paris on the 14th of July 1919 beat any record I've heard of or seen in my young life.