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Miss Boyd - all of us keen for a spree - flags flying every where, and the streets fuller of people and decorated offices and soldiers, than usual—  We aimed for the Place de la Concorde, but the cocher would'nt cross the Pont [[du]] Carrousel as he would'nt be allowed to come back—  We heard that not a single wheeled vehicle was to be allowed in the streets after seven, but there were plenty of cabs all the time, no buses—  There were wires and frames every where to hold lights, but it was too earl [[early]] for us to see any effects then—  There are two long esplannades at the end of the Tuileries Gardens that look down on the Place 

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They are about 15 or 18 ft above the Place and are full of huge trees and fine grey stone lions show out against the green etc etc - lots of chairs for 3 sous each behind the low stone balustrade—  We took five of these and so could see the whole superb - unequalled - any where - Place—  Its as big as, well, I dont know anything at home to compare its size to, but Uncle W & Aunt E. will tell you and was a net work of gas lights [[sketch]] all in globes—  They lighted them while we sat there, and in the mean time the Trocadero up the river began to shine out in lines of light - & pyramids of gas lights on the Pont [[du]] Carrousel, an electric flash light like a comet on 

Transcription Notes:
Jardins du Trocadéro