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14.1..
On the 14th of July 1919 I stood on the high balcony of a friend's house in the Champs Elysees, and saw the Allied Armies ride under the Arch of Triumph, and down the storied avenue to the misty distance of the Place de la Concorde and its obelisk of flame.