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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VII. LIFE IN PARIS. AMERICANS IN EUROPE. PATERNAL LETTERS AND ADVICE.--PARISIAN SUNDAYS.--LE RESTAURANT FLICOTEAU.--LES TROIS FRERES PROVEN AUX. Dr. Warren had much reason to be grateful for the associates that surrounded him during the whole of his three years' absence, and in whose company so large a part of his time was necessarily spent. The coterie of young doctors in the midst of whom he at once found himself on his arrival in Paris, were many of them from the United States, and not a few from his native city. With some changes this continued to the end of his foreign life. Mostly these fellow-students were very agreeable to him; and though they could not quite satisfy his craving for home and kindred, they did much to allay it for the time. The cordiality of their welcome put him forthwith on the easy footing of friendship, while united interests drew him and them ever more nearly together. Being gentlemanly in their manners, sentiments, and culture, he was quickly en rapport with them. They fairly represented the best blood and talent of their own land. Animated by worthy motives, their influence upon each other was strong, healthy, and inspiriting, and gave infinite promise of future good. They were no mean examples of the results that had already accrued from the institutions of the New World, --of its youthful vigor and growing aspirations. They would have been regarded as a credit to any country by all whose minds had not been warped by jealousy, blinded by prejudice, or contracted by long running in deeply worn and narrow ruts. Dr. Warren's friend, Dr. Greene, who arrived with him in Paris, long remained there; and so also did Dr. Henry I. Bowditch, who still lives to show the strength and beauty of the structure..