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Identifier: luxembourggrandd00renw (find matches)
Title: Luxembourg; the grand duchy and its people
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Renwick, George
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Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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of gardenamid the sombre surroundings of war. The parkstretches just like the border of a huge, embroideredfan, and from the centre of the high town handsomestreets radiate through it. It was in 1872, a coupleof years after the overthrow of the fortifications,that it was decided to lay out the park. Not a littleof the beauty of the C6te dAzur is evident, for thework was carried out by M. Edouard Andr6, whodesigned the gardens of Monte Carlo, and his workhere took fifteen years to complete. Plants andflowers in surprising variety are everywhere ; theturf is exquisite ; there are shady trees and prettylittle vales. From the rough ruins of the fortresswalls the designer of the garden-park has producedthe order of varied beauty. Between the AvenueMarie Therese and the Avenue Monterey is a well-kept botanical garden, and a little farther on is theVilla Louvigny. This is a restaurant, standingin the most picturesquely rugged part of the park,where in warlike days was one of the bastions of
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THE CAPITAL OF THE GRAND DUCHY 51 this imposing redoubt, which, garbed in the beautyof peace, is still haunted by flickering snatchesof warlike memories. The proprietor of the res-taurant will show visitors the subterranean passageshere. This delightful spot is much frequented insummer by the Luxembourgers, and concerts, andfrequent cycle races, too, are held in the evenings.By pleasant pathways the tour of the Jardin duGeneral can be made, and it is a delightful walk,ending, near the Pescatore Institute, at a terracefrom which a magnificent view of the Pfafl^enthalClausen, the Bock and the valley of the Eisch spreadsbefore the eyes. The Pescatore Institute is a large and handsomefour-story building standing in pretty grounds ofabout twelve acres in extent. It is a haven for anydescendants of the founder or any citizen of Luxem-bourg who may fall upon bad times. M. Jean PierrePescatore, who had been Minister of the Netherlandsin Paris, left, on his death in 1853, a sum of half amillio

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