WHAT WAS SAVED IN PARIS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 208, 25 January 1872, Page 7

WHAT WAS SAVED IN PARIS.

At the recent annual meeting of the five Academies of Paris, M. Jules Simon selected for his subject the national disasters. After describing the burning of the Tuileries and other buildings, he thus continued : The library in the Rue de Richelieu has lost neither a volume, a medal, nor an engraving. The national archives and the history of France is saved. The other public libraries — those of the Arsenal, Sainte Genevieve, Mazarine, the Sorbonne, the Luxembourg and the Corps Legislatif, so magnificently decorated by Eugene Delacroix, remain intact. The National Printing Office and the Mint have escaped, and the Gobelins, which was supposed to have been entirely destroyed, though it suffered cruelly, has been able to commence work. The Museum of the Luxembourg, the Hotel de Cluny, with its marvels, the School of Pine Arts, the Sainte Cha- ■ pelle, J^otre Dame, Saint German l'Auxerrois, and Saint Germain des Fres, have escaped the projectiles of the enemy and the torch of the Commune. Europe can return ; for to-day, as yesterday, we are the first city in the world for study, (sic.) Even the ruins will soon disappear. It is said that the Municipal Council has resolved to rebuild the Hotel de Ville after the conception of Domenco Boccadora. One of our grsatest artists will give us back the Tuileries under the elegant form given to the palace by Philibert Delorme. Open arcades, taking. the place of the buildings raised by Jean Bullant and Pere Ducereau, will connect the new palace with the two wings of the Lourve, and the Plac dv Carrousel will thus be in direct communication with the gardens,* etc.