Observations in Europe

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BOIS DE MEUL

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1844, by

HARPER & BROTHERS,

In the Clerk's Office of the Southern District of New-York.

PREFACE.

WITHOUT making an apology for doing what I might have left undone, viz., writing this book, I deem it right to give my reader a word or two of explanation as to the circumstances under which it was prepared.

When I left home my thoughts were full of the East, and I confess it was my design to inflict a book of travels in that interesting region upon the patience of my friends in the Western world. In Egypt, Arabia, Palestine, Asia Minor, and even in Greece, I thought new material enough might be found to allow me to say something without going over topics already worn out. While in those countries, besides noticing the ordinary objects that excite the attention of the traveller, I made careful inquiry, so far as my opportunities allowed, into the state of the Greek and Armenian churches, and the condition of the Turkish Empire, now so intimately connected with the state of Christianity in the East. My letters suggested these topics to my friends at home, and they had reason to expect that I would treat them, on my return, more at length, and in a more permanent form.

Reasons, both of a public and a private nature, induced me to postpone, for a time at least, the publication of my Eastern journal, and to prepare for the press

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CONTENTS.

CHAPTER IV.

PARIS-CHURCHES AND WORSHIP.

Churches in Paris.-Small Number of Church Edifices.-Large Size of many

of them.-Varieties of Architecture.-Notre-Dame.-Goddess of Reason.-

The Concordat.-Coronation of Napoleon.-Church of the Magdalen.—

Worship.-Matins.-Vespers.-The Mass.-Elevation of the Host.-Im-

pressions.-Service at Notre-Dame de Lorette

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CHAPTER V.

PARIS.