In his essay The Modern Day Ark Pierre Dumonde relates how after traveling for too years and 4,000 miles, a giraffe finally arrives in Paris France in1827. The giraffe, the first ever to be seen in France. A gift from the leader of egypt to Frances king. Mr. Dumonde further explains that the 12-foot-tall giraffe traveled across the Mediterranean sea by boat her body traveled below deck with the other animals, but her head poked though a whole cut in the deck. When the boat lands in France, the giraffe is lead on a 550-mile walk to Paris. Juliette Parques shares that many people that saw the giraffe had never saw such an animal. In her article The long walk Mrs. Parques writes that people “leaned out of windows and packed
