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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 11: Paris.—its schools.—January and February, 1838.—Age, 27. (search)
derstand but little. It was spoken of as an admirable lecture. Louis is not a professor, but delivers lectures at his hospital gratuitously and for the mere love of science,—sua sponte. From this lecture room I passed to the operating room; the operations were by Roux. Received to-day a letter from Hillard,—my first token from Boston since I left. It is to me like the leaf of olive in the mouth of the dove. In the midst of the satiety which Paris affords, I hunger for news of home. Feb. 1 (Thursday). Took the eldest son of Madame, with whom I board, —lad of fifteen years,—as my companion in my walks, for the sake of having somebody with whom to talk French; and made my first excursion to-day through the Faubourg St. Germain, the residence of the nobility and the wealthy of France, to the Hotel des Invalides, the retreat of broken-down soldiers,—the Greenwich of France. The establishment is vast and splendid beyond the imagination of an American, and betokens the munificen