endearing in social and domestic charities; but with whatever is
darkest in human nature and in human destiny, with the savage
triumph of implacable enemies, with the inconstancy, the ingratitude,
the cowardice of friends, with all the miseries of fallen greatness and
of blighted fame." We note a few names chiseled here: Sir Thomas
More, beheaded 1535; Anne Boleyn, beheaded in this tower, 1536;
Thomas Cromwell, beheaded, 1540; Margaret Pole, beheaded here,
1541; Queen Catharine Howard, beheaded, 1542; Lady Jane Grey
and her husband, beheaded here, 1544; Sir Thomas Overbudy,
poisoned in this tower, 1613. Since travel is a study of history at
the spot where the event took place, let us cross the rough and famed
English Channel to visit one of the many noted spots of France. We
select the site of the Hotel de Ville or the town-hall of Paris. "The
construction of the old hall was begun in 1533, and was over seventy
years in its completion. Additions were made, and the building was
reconstructed in 1841. This has been the usual rallying site of the
Democratic party for centuries. Here occurred the tragedy of St.
Bartholomew in 1572; here mob-posts, gallows, and guillotines
did the work of a despotic misrule until 1789. (As we left for
Brussels on the evening of the 13th of July, all Paris was gayly
decorated with red, white, and blue bunting, ready to celebrate the
event of July 14, 1789, the fall of the Bastile.) On this date, 110
years ago, the captors of the Bastile marched into this noted hall.
Three days later Louis XVI came here in procession from Versailles,
followed by a dense mob." Here Robespierre attempted suicide to
avoid arrest, when five battalions under Barras forced entrance to
assault the Commune party, of which Robespierre was head. Here,
in 1848, Louis Blanc proclaimed the institution of the Republic of
France. This was a central spot during the revolution of 1871. The
leaders of the Commune party place in this building barrels of