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created and a little tangle of streets surrounded the ruined and blackened entrance to the place de Carousel [[Place du Carrousel]].x  I lost no time in sight seeing but hastened to search for the little American colony of students who had assembled at Picôt's restaurant which formed the Angle of the rue Jacob and the rue de Seine, and we lodged in the neighboring student Hotels. Brush and Weir were already at work in the Beaux Arts under Gérôme. Every one told me how late I had come and the difficulty I would have in obtaining admission. Since Couture lived out of Paris and took no pupils I preferred to enter if it were possible the Atelier Cabanel. He, Gérôme and Pils had the Government Atelier's for Painting in the École des Beaux-Arts. Edgar A Ward was the only American who had gained