A Few Days' Rest in Paris

On His third visit to Paris, in May 1913, the physical strength of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá had suffered greatly. Some evenings His meal consisted only of a cup of milk and a piece of bread. He described it as a healthy meal, and recalled that Bahá’u’lláh had said that during His sojourn in Sulaymáníyyih His food was just milk most of the time, and sometimes milk and rice cooked together.

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‘Abdu’l-Bahá moved, on the 27th, to the hotel in Rue Lauriston where He had stayed before. He was very tired, and needed a few days' rest before people learned where He resided. Ahmad Pasha and the Dreyfus-Barneys, who knew that hotel meals did not suit ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, had food specially cooked for Him in their homes, but He asked them not to do so.

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