Note E — Chapter XX · LE JARDIN DES PLANTES

On the Peace Fête, July 14th, 1919, the Arènes were arranged as a theatre, and the performance of a classical play, “Le Cid,” took place on the spot where wild beasts had fought of yore; while twentieth-century Frenchmen sat on the very stone seats whereon had sat Romans and men of primitive Gallic tribes in the earliest days of the history of Paris and of France.