Introductory material

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BEAUTIFUL FRANCE

Paris and its environs

PARIS—home of grandeur, elegance, and wit—plays a part in France probably unequalled in any other country, and may be considered, in many respects, as the chief city of Europe, and one of the greatest in the world. Above all, it possesses eminently national qualities which ten centuries of refinement and taste have handed down to contemporary France.

It is impossible, in a few lines, to paint the exceptional charms of Paris which the whole world admires.

Its vistas of the Champs-Elysées seen from the Tuileries and the Arc de Triomphe; of Notre-Dame and the point of the City Island seen from La Concorde Bridge; of the River Seine, the Institute, the Louvre, seen from the Pont-Neuf embankment; Notre-Dame and its quays, seen from the end of St. Louis Island; the panorama of the city seen from the top of Montmartre Hill; the Avenue du Bois de Boulogne and the Bois de Boulogne itself, etc., etc.,—all are of incomparable beauty.

The city’s historical monuments are of inestimable value, and the most famous art treasures are to be found in its Museums.

The surroundings of Paris join the charm of their landscapes to the world-wide fame of their parks and castles: Versailles, whose palace and park recall the splendor of the Louis XIV. period, and where the “Trianons” have preserved graceful traces of the Court of Marie-Antoinette; St. Germain with its castle and forest; St. Cloud and its park; Sèvres and its world-renowned art porcelain factory; La Malmaison, home of Bonaparte before he became Napoleon I.; Rambouillet, Fontainebleau, Chartres with its marvelous cathedral, Maintenon, Dreux, etc.—all these form a girdle round Paris such as no other metropolis in the world can boast of.

MICHELIN TOURING OFFICES ———

MICHELIN TYRE CO., Ltd., LONDON Touring Office :: 81, Fulham Road, S. W. MICHELIN & Cie, CLERMONT-FERRAND Touring Office :: 97, Boulevard Péreire, PARIS

Why ask the Way, when . . . . .

. . . . . Michelin will tell you free of charge?

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Drop a line, ring us up, or call at one of our Touring Offices and you will receive a carefully worked-out description of the route to follow.

HOTELS AND MOTOR AGENTS AT SAINT MENEHOULD, VERDUN.

SAINT MENEHOULD

Hôtel Saint Nicholas, Rue Chanzy. Hôtel de Metz, 23, Rue Chanzy. E. Depors, 3, Rue Chanzy.

VERDUN

Hostellerie du Coq Hardi, 8, Rue du St. Esprit

(between the Rue Mazel and the Meuse)

Hôtel du Lion d’Or, Place Saint Paul

(Opposite the Sub-Prefecture)

Grand Garage Central Rochette, 22, Rue de la Rivière. Inspection pit. Petrol. Telephone No. 50.

The above information may no longer be exact when it meets the reader’s eye. Tourists are therefore recommended to consult the Michelin Touring Office.

who will be pleased to furnish all desired information and a carefully worked-out itinerary of the route to be followed free of charge.