PLACE DE LA CONCORDE ” 66 A. PERCY INGLIS (BRITISH CONSUL-GENERAL) ” 84 SIR JOHN PILTER ” 94 HERTFORD BRITISH HOSPITAL ” 98 THE ELYSÉE, FROM THE FAUBOURG ST. HONORÉ ” 112 PLACE DE LA CONCORDE ” 118 THE HISTORIC FOUNTAIN, PLACE DE LA CONCORDE ” 118 _Photos of City by Leblanc, Paris._ SEVENTEEN YEARS IN PARIS. BY H. E. NOYES, D.D. _Late Honorary Chaplain to His Majesty’s Embassy._ CHAPTER I. ROYAL AND OTHER VISITS. The Daily Press has naturally recorded the visits of Royalty, Members of Parliament, the Lord Mayor of London, etc., to Paris during the period of which I write, but as in each case there were services in the Embassy Church, there are certain facts from the chaplain’s point of view which will, I hope, be of interest to my readers. A clerical friend once said to me, “Everybody who is anybody has been to your Church in Paris.” It certainly was a fact that during my chaplaincy many distinguished people attended the ordinary Divine Service besides the crowds at special times when Royalty was present. I may mention the late Duke of Devonshire, the Right Hon. W. E. and Mrs. Gladstone—who often came twice on the Sunday when visiting Paris—H.R.H. the late Duke of Cambridge, who was many times present. On one occasion the Duke arrived in Paris from a long journey early on Sunday morning, but he was in the Embassy gallery at the 11 o’clock service. Upon his late visits—and he was in Paris not long before the end—he was unable to face the stairs to the gallery, and sat below with the congregation. In the early days of my chaplaincy, the late Sir Condie Stephen was an attaché at the Embassy, and a most regular attendant at both morning and evening services. The late Archbishop of Canterbury was once at service in my time, and sent me a most kind message. Bishops, Home, Colonial, and American, were occasionally seen, and many clergy. I noticed on two or three occasions Mr. Pierpoint Morgan among the worshippers. On one occasion four English dukes were present at morning service. The late Sir G. Stokes, Sir W. Freemantle, Lord Rathmore, and the other members of the Suez Canal Board were regular in attendance month by month, the former a devout worshipper and a kind, genial friend.