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danterne !” (To the lantern!) was heard nightly in

the dark streets of Paris, and then a savage, howling ©

mob would come tearing along, diagging some terri-
fied creature who a few minutes later would be swing-
ing lifeless from the iron bar of the street lantern.
Foulon, who was a friend to the king, was the first
one of hundreds who perished in this way during the
Ke: n of Terror.

In 1787 the Argand burner was invented by Aimé
Argand, a native of Switzerland. He made a lamp

THE LIGHTS OF PARIS.

because they got entangled in the catafalque.

Twice were royal funerals interrupted on this way ;
on the twenty-first of January, 181s, the bodies of the
unfortunate Louis the Sixteenth, and Marie Antoi-
nette, his wife, were taken from the cemetery of La
Madeleine, to the church of St. Denis, and as no
one had thought to remove the street lamps, the top
of the funeral-car caught-in the cords of a lantern,
and it took.a long time to disentangle them.

In December, 1840, when the body of Napoleon

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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GASLIGHT, LATE AFTERNOON IN THE RAINY SEASON. PORTE ST. MARTIN.

in which a flat wick of twisted cotton was placed
between two tubes, and in the centre the air was able
to circulate freely, while a glass chimney aided the
draught and prevented the wick from smoking.

This invention was made perfect in 1821, by a
lamp-manufacturer named Vivien, and these burners
were used all over Paris until the ‘ntroduction of gas,
eight years afterwards. The lamps were hung over
the gutters, which in those days ran down the middle

the Great was carried to the Church of the Invalides,
great care had been taken to remove the lamps in
those streets where the procession was to pass; but
after the’grand ceremony was over and the empty
funeral car was returning by a shorter way to the
undertaker’s, it was stopped_by a lamp, and had to
be left in the street till the next day.

Some years before this, the discovery of gaslight
was made by a Frenchman named Phillippe Le Bon,

of the street, and the lamps had to be taken down - a very clever engineer.

when a funeral procession passed underneath,

It was already known that hydrogen-gas would