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Title: Paris and environs : with routes from London to Paris and from Paris to the Rhine and Switzerland : handbook for travellers
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Karl Baedeker (Firm)
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Publisher: Leipsic : K. Baedeker
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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eft of the mantel-piece is placed an interesting collection of flintarrow-heads. Adjoining this room is the Galerie de Mars or Snlles de Fetes, occupy-ing the whole height of the first and second stories next to the church,and not yet restored. It is devoted to objects to be afterwards placed inthe other rooms, so that the arrangements are only temp.jrary. At presentit contains an extensive collection of Romano-Gallic earthenware, armsand armour from diflerent sources, objects in iron and bronze, etc. l^earthe middle of the left side is a tomb older than the foundation of Rome,found in Italy in 1S73. Retiirning to Room III, we ascend thence by a short staircase ad-joining the Galerie de Mars to the — Second Floor, where we begin on the side next the church. — Tothe left, in the turret, is the Salle de la Xumismatique or du Tresor,containing bronze statuettes, glass, trinkets, and Gallic coins. To the leftof the door is a Gallic standard; between the windows, a collection of votive
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ST GERMAIN. ^^i^\v^^ ^^-- Irk f/ ^r ♦ -t; SeogVaph-AiLbtalt t 17. ST. OEHMAIN-EN-LAYE. 311 oflerings, etc., found at Vichy. — Room IV. Lacustrine and tlint period(epoch of the lake-dwellings): polished flints, poljshed bone implements,objects in wood, vases. By the second window to the right: bread, grain,fruit, and cloth found in the lake-dwellings on the Lake of Constance. —Room V. Objects of the bronze period. In the glass case in the centreare about a thousand ditYerent articles found in a vault at Larnaud (Jura).— Room VI. Prehistoric Gallic antiquities of every kind down to the ageof bronze; then, ornaments, implements, weapons, etc., in iron, bronze,and gold (facsimiles), found in burial-places. Also large bronze vases, amodel of an ancient foundry, etc. Room VII. , on the other side oi the staircase. Continuation of theGallic antiquities: bracelets, rings, necklaces, brooches, vases , and beltsin bronze; weapons and knives in bronze, etc. — Rooms VII-XII. are atprese

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