Smart citizens of Paris felt a twinge of pique, last week, at news that a plan originally conceived by Louis XV's great architect Jacques Ange Gabriel to beautify the present Place de la Concord will shortly be carried to completion by the U. S.
The news broke at Paris with announcement that 31,000,000 francs ($1,219,000) has been agreed upon as the price eventually to be paid by the U. S. for a structure facing the Place de la Concord which is now occupied by the famed Cercle de
l'Union Artistique or Fine Arts Club. How the Coolidge Administration proposes to deal with this...
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