It was not yet absolute perfection, but progress was manifest.
By a very natural illusion, he paused twenty times to salute people of familiar appearance; but no one recognized him.
After a walk of five hours he reached the _Place du Carrousel_.

The _hotel de Nantes_ was no longer there; but the Louvre had been erected instead.

Fougas employed a quarter of an hour in regarding this monument of architecture, and half an hour in contemplating two Zouaves of the guard who were playing piquet.

He inquired if the Emperor was in Paris; whereupon his attention was called to the flag floating over the Tuilleries.
"Good!" said he.

"But first I must get some new clothes." He took a room in a hotel on the _Rue Saint Honore_, and asked a waiter which was the most celebrated tailor in Paris.