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to look normal again.  Several days after you left the sewers in the vicinity of the Gare St. Lazare began to burst, there were several feet of water in all the streets in the neighborhood of Gare.  If you had left a few days latter than you did you would have had to take a boat for the station.  You know the wall on the side of the railway ent, the top of which was even with the surface of of the rivver the day that you and I were taking photos; well the river rose several feet higher and poured into it, filling all of the section around the invalid with several feet of water.  It was interesting to see the soldiers at work building bridges, etc.  The bridge in front of the Invalides was closed to pedestrians just as I wanted to cross.  I managed to get over to the other side by getting into a wagon with a lot of others and riding thru the water.  After that all wagons going to the other side were mobbed 

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