visited generally. After much trouble we managed, through the "open

sesame" of the King's pass, to gain access to the palace; but to our

great disappointment we found that all the pictures had been cut from

the frames and carried off to Paris, except one portrait, that of

Queen Victoria, against whom the French were much incensed. All

other works of art had been removed, too--a most fortunate

circumstance, for the palace being directly on the German line, was

raked by the guns from the fortress of Mont Valerien, and in a few