Harrison's post:

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley spent the first week of August, 1814, in Paris. One of the places she visited while she was there was the Cascade du Bois de Boulogne:

"I think the Boulevards infinitely more pleasant. This street nearly surrounds Paris, and is eight miles in extent; it is very wide, and planted on either side with trees. At one end is a superb cascade which refreshes the senses by its continual splashing."

Video Tour of the Cascade du Bois de...