It is situated in the Rue de Bourbon, but the windows of the principal apartments look on the Seine, and command a delightful view of the Tuilerie Gardens.

It is approached by an avenue bounded by fine trees, and is enclosed on the Rue de Bourbon side by high walls, a large _porte-cochere_, and a porter's lodge; which give it all the quiet and security of a country house.
This hotel may be viewed as a type of the splendour that marked the dwellings of the imperial _noblesse_, and some notion of it may be conceived from the fact that the decorations of its walls alone cost a million of francs.

These decorations are still--thanks to the purity of the air of Paris--as fresh as if only a year painted, and are of great beauty; so much so, that it will be not only very expensive but very difficult to assort the furniture to them; and, unfortunately, there is not a single _meuble_ in the house.
The rent is high, but there are so many competitors for the hotel, which has only been three days in the market, that we consider ourselves fortunate in having secured it.
A small garden, or rather terrace, with some large trees and plenty of flowers, separates the house from the Quai d'Orsay, and runs back at its left angle.

The avenue terminates in a court, from which, on the right, a gate opens into the stable offices; and a vestibule, fitted up as a conservatory, forms an entrance to the house.

A flight of marble steps on each side of the conservatory, leads to a large ante-room, from which a window of one immense plate of glass, extending from the ceiling to the floor, divides the centre, permitting the pyramids of flowers to be seen through it.