Sept. 22
Took a little walk towards night in the Tuilleries to see how things were done here on Sunday, particularly in the Champs-Elysees. It is a tres elegant place. How to describe it I know not. The orange trees are the first things that strike one, then the gardens near the palace. . . . Stalls for fruit, etc. Music saloons for concerts & theatrical representations. . . . Crowds of people young and old, mothers & nurses, babies & quite little ones, soldiers & carriages & omnibuses, all classes excepting young unmarried ladies of the upper classes, these were very rare. Of these enjoyments they never tire & they would rather be deprived of food than of the means of appearing clean & well dressed to walk here on a Sunday.