On Sunday the 12th, at about noon, the equestrian statue, in bronze, of _Henry IV._ which was on the _Pont-neuf_, was pulled down; this was erected in 1635, and was the first of the kind in Paris. The horse was begun at Florence, by _Giovanni Bologna_, a pupil of _Michael Angelo_, finished by _Pietro Tacca_, and sent as a present to _Mary of Medicis_, widow of _Henry IV._ Regent. It was shipped at _Leghorn_, and the vessel which contained it was lost on the coast of Normandy, near _Havre de Grace_, the horse remained a year in the sea, it was, however, got out and sent to Paris in 1614. This statue used to be the idol of the Parisians; immediately after the revolution it was decorated with the national cockade; during three evenings after the federation, in 1790, magnificent festivals were celebrated before it. It was broken in many pieces by the fall; the bronze was not half an inch thick, and the hollow part was filled up with brick earth. The fifth and last was overthrown in the afternoon of the same day; it was situated in the _Place Royale_; it was an equestrian statue in bronze, of Lewis XIII. on a vast pedestal of white marble; it was erected in 1639. The horse was the work of _Daniel Volterra_; the figure of the king was by _Biard_. The people were several days employed in pulling down all the statues and busts of kings and queens they could find. On the Monday I saw a marble or stone statue, as large as the life, tumbled from the top of the _Hotel de Ville_ into the _Place de Greve_, at that time full of people, by which two men were killed, as I was told, and I did not wish to verify the assertion myself, but retired. They then proceeded to deface and efface every crown, every _fleur de lis_, every inscription wherein the words king, queen, prince, royal, or the like, were found. The hotels and lodging-houses were compelled to erase and change their names, that of the _Prince de Galles_ must be called _de Galles_ only; that of _Bourbon_ must have a new name; a sign _au lys d'or_ (the golden lily) was pulled down; even billiard tables are no longer _noble_ or _royal_. The _Pont-royal_, the new bridge of _Lewis XVI._ the _Place des Victoires_, the _Place Royal_, the _Rue d'Artois, &c._ have all new names, which, added to the division of the kingdom into eighty-three departments, abolishing all the ancient noble names of _Bourgogne, Champagne, Provence, Languedoc, Bretagne, Navarre, Normandie, &c._ and in their stead substituting such as these: _Ain, Aube, Aude, Cher, Creuse, Doubs, Eure, Gard, Gers, Indre, Lot, Orne, Sarte, Tarne, Var, &c._ which are the names of insignificant rivers; to that of Paris into forty-eight new sections, and to all titles being likewise abolished, makes it very difficult for a stranger to know any thing about the geography of the kingdom, nor what were the _ci-devant_ titles of such of the nobility as still remain in France, and who are at present only known by their family names.