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Percival Lowell

Yesterday I lunched at the Flammarions with Loie Fuller. She speaks French fluently. The day was the day of Saint Médard of which an old proverb says: "S'il pleut le jour de Saint Médard Il pleuvra quarante jours plus tard."

Now it rained before and thundered during lunch and at the Eiffel Tower where Flammarion and Loie Fuller went afterwards to inspect it for a dance on the Fête du Soleil on the 22nd instant taking me along part way with them there broke a thundering hailstorm so that Paris was white and Flammarion wrote about it of course to the Herald.

Today I have been trying to get the Connaissance des Temps for 1849 with Leverrier's memoir in it and have so far failed, though I went to Gauthiers-Villars, the publishers. 116