he new bridge called Pont de la Revolution. I
shall take an opportunity hereafter of giving your Lordship a
description of the interior of these several places.

The scene of any great revolutionary event continues still
decorated with the national flag and other emblems of their
_glorious_ Revolution, accompanied with an inscription; that where
the Bastille stood is, _14 Juillet 1789, la Bastille detruite, et
elle ne se relevera jamais_; and that in the Place du Carrousel,
opposite the Tuileries, is, _10 Aout 1792, La Royaute francaise est
abolie, et elle ne se relevera jamais_. There are several marks of
cannon-balls, but they have made but little impression on this
front of the Tuileries; and under each of them is written, _10 Aout
1792_.

The garden of the Tuileries is, I am told, kept as well as ever it
was; some of the largest trees in it, however, have been cut down
since our arrival, but they were chiefly decayed. Of the Bastille
nothing remains, except a very small part of the foundations; and
near it is a newly-erected powder magazine, and much of the
remainder of the space is a depot for firewood.

The churches are many of them open, and have Divine service
performed in them without restraint; but a great many more of them
are shut, and some used as _casernes_, storehouses, &c.; but they
have all been stripped of every internal decoration, and nothing
suffered to remain but the bare walls. Sometimes, indeed--and it
appears to be by an oversight--a piece of painting, or perhaps a
little image, may have escaped injury; but such a thing is a
curiosity, and to be found in a situation not readily to be
observed, or difficult to be reached. The favourite mode of
mutilating a statue seems to have been to break off the head. In
the church of St. Sulpice there is a tolerably good statue of a
Virgin and Child remaining, but of this the Child's head is taken
off, and that of the Virgin seems to have met with the same fate,
but to have been restored. It is wonderful the industry that has
been used in the destruction of everything in the way of
inscription, of sculpture, or coats of arms, which could possibly
remind the people of the _ancien regime_; and I cannot help being
much surprised that all this was done with so much care as to
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