The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris by David McCullough

Author:David McCullough [McCullough, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Non-Fiction, Art, Azizex666, Travel, Adult, Biography, History
ISBN: 9781416571766
Google: lQaPIYIfcM8C
Amazon: 1416571779
Goodreads: 10131648
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2011-05-24T04:00:00+00:00

an army with, in its midst, grey-bearded civilians who were fathers, beardless youngsters who were sons, and in its open ranks women carrying their husband’s or their lover’s rifle slung across their backs.

The following day, as the battle raged near Saint-Cloud, Washburne and Wickham Hoffman went as far as Passy, to the historic old Château de la Muette, to observe with Jules Favre and other French officials as much as could be seen by telescope from an uppermost cupola.

One hundred thousand men are struggling to break through that circle of iron and of fire which has held them for four long, long months [Washburne wrote]. The lay of the country is such that we cannot see the theater of the conflict. … The low muttering of the distant cannon, and the rising of the smoke indicate, however, the field of carnage. The crowd of Frenchmen in the cupola were sad indeed, and we could not help feel for their anxiety.

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