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The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England. volume 5 (of 6), Mémoires d'outre-tombe volume 5

Note 601 — BOOK IV[556]

Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation

The Obelisk of Luxor was brought from Egypt in 1831 and set up in Paris, on the Place de la Concorde, in 1836. It weighs 240 tons.—T.

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