[5] a proud and ancient civilization still in its prime.
After some formalities, Elders Dodd and Nelson took us by Métro to the Place de l’Étoile, where we walked around the Arc de Tromphe, then down the Champs-Élysées to the Place de la Concorde, on the Boulevard de la Madeleine to the Cathédrale de la Madeleine, to the rue de la Paix and, of course, l’Opéra. Magnificent! During the daylight hours, I’d had a good look at the Tour Eiffel, the Grand Palais, the Seine, l’Assemblée Nationale, and a glimpse of Notre-Dame.
The elders were not surprised that several of us quickly and totally fell in love with Paris. The place shows so much pride and love and attention on the part of its excitable inhabitants that one would really have to be a block, a stone, a worse than senseless thing not to be thoroughly vanquished by it.
And so to bed, witht he same bubbly feeling in my belly that Christmas used to occasion when I was small or, later, when thinking of a very special girl...
10-19 Up at 6 a.m. They say this is going to be a pretty standard schedule, and I’m beginning to believe it. We met in Pres. Hinckley's office at 7, and each one present (excepté le lord-maire)
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