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And if you wish to receive of the ancient city an ier furnish you, cli sun of Easter or of Pentecost--climb upon some elevated point, whence you co of the chiiven froives it, all those churches quiver si fro that they are about to begin Then, all at once, behold!--for it seeht of its own,--behold, rising fro like a column of sound, a cloud of harht upwards, pure and, so to speak, isolated fro sky; then, little by little, as they swell they a but a mass of sonorous vibrations incessantly sent forth from the numerous belfries; floats, undulates, bounds, whirls over the city, and prolongs far beyond the horizon the deafening circle of its oscillations

Nevertheless, this sea of harreat and profound as it is, it has not lost its transparency; you behold the windings of each group of notes which escapes frorave and shrill, of the treble and the bass; you can see the octaves leap froed, light, and whistling, fro froamut which incessantly ascends and re-ascends the seven bells of Saint-Eustache; you see light and rapid notes running across it, executing three or four lu Yonder is the Abbey of Saint-Martin, a shrill, cracked singer; here the gruff and glooreat tower of the Louvre, with its bass The royal chime of the palace scatters on all sides, and without relaxation, resplendent trills, upon which fall, at regular intervals, the heavy strokes from the belfry of Notre-Dame, which makes them sparkle like the anvil under the hae of sounds of all forms which coain, froives passage to the beats of the Ave Maria, which bursts forth and sparkles like an aigrette of stars Below, in the very depths of the concert, you confusedly distinguish the interior chanting of the churches, which exhales through the vibrating pores of their vaulted roofs