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of Geo: Roberts Smith; called to see us and hearing that father had had a headache, he said "ah he has been eating potato again". After dinner father and I went to the Louvre where we spent about two hours examining the pictures. In the evening I wrote.
March 6th. Father went to study the pictures at the Louvre. Mother sewed; Lily drew and I drew a teapot and a little night lamp. In the afternoon Father, mother and I went down to the Boulevards. We stopped in at a picture dealers, and saw new works by some of the most eminent French artists of the present, amongst them Iraby Diaz - and Fleres. Their style of landscape painting is extremely coarse and daubby, to my fancy.
Sunday March 7th. After breakfast we got ready and all set off to hear service in Notre Dame Cathedral, on the way, passing the Louvre, which looked very fine in the light and shadow of the morning sun, on arriving at the cathedral it was about half past ten o-clock, which was about half an hour too late for us to see the beginning of the service. We saw the priests march around, with two men dressed in the uniform of officers, with eveked hats and cowards with belts of embroidered cloth about

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two feet broad. We heard chanting and singing accompanied by the organ, but the building is so large that it was completely broken up by echoes, and I could not make anything of it. After remaining a while we came out and examined the exterior, parts of which are undergoing repairs, and this would seem to be an endless job, for there are many places which are now crumbling in want of repairs. The flying buttresses are extremely light.
March 13th. Father had an engagement to meet Mr. Ingerall at his lodgings at eleven o-clock to see about getting some prints and pictures and did not get home until about three o-clock, when he told us that we are to go to the Grand Opera tonight. So we set about getting ready as fast as possible. Then taking some coffee, we set off & after a very smart walk, we got there just at the beginning of the first set. Mr. Ingersall had taken a whole box, in which there are six seats. The opera was La Prophate, and the opening scene represented an assemblage of richly dressed peasants gathered for a time of merrymaking and enjoyment. the scenery of this scene was very finely painted. There