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Show EARLY FRENCH MEMOIRS The French memoirs of the seventeenth seven-teenth and eighteenth conturle? aro full of disgusting details of the insanitary insan-itary stfito of Paris, Including tho Louvro Itself. Tho palace of tho French kings was open to tho public moro freely than the White Housq at Washington Is to tho citizens of the great Republic of tho West. Taking Into account tho fact that tho cmtoms of tho French people, as of most oUer nntlons In tho good old day3, wero filthier In some respects thhn those of prlmltlvo man, tho state of ho dwolltng of tho sovereign may e.sll bo Imagined. Tlio moro reading a'.out those things almost makes a modern reader flick. Hut probably among thoso to tho manner bor'n It caused no Inconvenience, and thorecollectlo-i of tho stenches of tho Louvro and Versailles In lator difs was uvou associated In loynl breasts with tor-dor tor-dor feelings of regret for tho past The famotiB architect VIolett-lo line says thnt oven In tho unsavory details that havo boen rcforrod to tho old tradition tra-dition was rovlved at tho Restoration Ho remembered the stenches which pervaded tho corridors of Saint Clou! In the days of Louis XVIII. Ono dav When a boy ho visited the paltico at Versailles In tho company of. en elderly lady who had been nn orr.a-mont orr.a-mont of tho court of Louts XV. In going about they found tholr wir In a passago whero their nostrlM wero hssalled by tho foulest odors. Th old lady inhaled thoso with tho deepest deep-est pleasuro, exclaiming rapturously, Ah! that reminds mo of tho bountiful bounti-ful past. It Is woll known that Iho olfactory norvo often retains Impressions Impres-sions moro vividly than nay df tho other senses; henco tho smell ot a flower will coll up In tin 'old mi'n tho momory of a scono of youthful lovo or awaken forgotten association. It Is nntural enough, therefore that a, onco familiar stench uhould bring back a varnished phst. But nn old court beauty finding food for a fine sentlmont In a stink Is what Carlvlf would call a comlco pathetic Cgurn. |