Bands of music were playing in the parks, where whole families, with their luncheons, spent the day--husbands, wives, and children, on an excursion together.

The boats on the Seine and all public conveyances were crowded.

Those who had but this one day for pleasure seemed determined to make the most of it.

A wonderful contrast with that gloomy day in London, where all places of amusement were closed and nothing open to the people but the churches and drinking saloons.

The streets and houses in which Voltaire, La Fayette, Mme.