Our task was an easy one, and, if we have not been able to discharge it better, the fault is ours alone. A suitable termination, therefore, to this introduction will be the old formula—more than ever apropos—"Excuse the faults of the author."
THE PONT-ROYAL, THE TUILERIES, AND THE LOUVRE (18th CENTURY)
(View taken from the Pont-Neuf.) Noël, pinxit.
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