The Arc de Triomphe stands in the Place de l'Etoile at the top of the Champs-Elysees.

I was walking about the Champs-Elysees and Faubourg St. Honore on the morning of the 16th of May, and saw all the carriages, our own included, waiting at the Ministry of the Interior, where the conseil was sitting.

There were many handsome carriages on the Champs-Elysees, filled with pretty, well-dressed women, and the opera and all the theatres were packed.

Paris was illuminated the night of the opening of the exposition, the whole city, not merely the Champs-Elysees and boulevards.

It was quite another world, neither the Champs-Elysees nor Montmartre.

Naturally she was the most adorned nurse in the Champs-Elysees, with superb cloaks and the richest of caps, trimmed with long ribbons which flared in the sunlight.

" A little later that same day Mathieu was crossing the Champs-Elysees, eager to join Marianne at Chantebled, moved as he was by the decisive step he had taken, yet quivering also with faith and hope, when in a deserted avenue he espied a cab waiting, and recognized Santerre inside it.

To offset it I have memories of the Champs-Elysees and the Place de l'Hotel de Ville turned into a fairyland.