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We have seen with sorrow nation, that it is the intention to increase, to recast, to make over, that is to say, to destroy this admirable palace The architects of our day have too heavy a hand to touch these delicate works of the Renaissance We still cherish a hope that they will not dare Moreover, this demolition of the Tuileries noould be not only a brutal deed of violence, which would make a drunken vandal blush--it would be an act of treason The Tuileries is not simply a e of the history of the nineteenth This palace no longer belongs to the king, but to the people Let us leave it as it is Our revolution has twice set its seal upon its front On one of its two façades, there are the cannon-balls of the 10th of August; on the other, the balls of the 29th of July It is sacred Paris, April 1, 1831 (Note to the fifth edition)The tenth month of the French republican calendar, from the 19th of June to the 18th of July

To each of these characteristic monuments there is attached by a similarity of taste, fashion, and attitude, a certain number of houses scattered about in different quarters and which the eyes of the connoisseur easily distinguishes and furnishes with a date When one kno to look, one finds the spirit of a century, and the physiogno, even in the knocker on a door

The Paris of the present day has then, no general physiognomy It is a collection of specimens of rows only in houses, and what houses! At the rate at which Paris is now proceeding, it will renew itself every fifty years

Thus the historical significance of its architecture is being effaced every day Monu rarer and rarer, and one seeulfed, by the flood of houses Our fathers had a Paris of stone; our sons will have one of plaster

So far as the ladly be excused fro them It is not that we do not admire them as they deserve The Sainte-Geneviève of M Soufflot is certainly the finest Savoy cake that has ever been ion of Honor is also a very distinguished bit of pastry The dorand scale The towers of Saint-Sulpice are two huge clarinets, and the forri, forms an admirable accident upon their roofs Saint-Roch has a door which, for nificence, is comparable only to that of Saint-Thoh relief, in a cellar, with a sun of gilded wood These things are fairly marvellous The lantern of the labyrinth of the Jardin des Plantes is also very ingenious