. Twenty centuries of Paris . saw amongthe statues of the kings of France the statue ofHenry V of England! Charles did not have ittaken down. It stood with mutilated face tomake public show of his scorn. The English captured at Pontoise weredrowned at the Greve soon after. Paris nolonger welcomed the stranger. The city itself was forlorn enough. So poorlywas it protected that again wolves made theirway through the gates which their keepers weretoo languid or too indifferent to guard is said that in one week of the month of Sep-tember, 1438, no fewer than forty persons werekilled by
. Twenty centuries of Paris . saw amongthe statues of the kings of France the statue ofHenry V of England! Charles did not have ittaken down. It stood with mutilated face tomake public show of his scorn. The English captured at Pontoise weredrowned at the Greve soon after. Paris nolonger welcomed the stranger. The city itself was forlorn enough. So poorlywas it protected that again wolves made theirway through the gates which their keepers weretoo languid or too indifferent to guard is said that in one week of the month of Sep-tember, 1438, no fewer than forty persons werekilled by the hungry beasts in Paris and its im-mediate neighborhood. Twenty-four thousanddwellings stood vacant. Charles reorganized the administration ofParis, restoring the elections of city officialswhich his father had suppressed, and establishinga fairly satisfactory arrangement of taxes. Amarked addition to the royal power lay in theorganization of a standing army devoted to theroyal interests. It was thus that he utilized the. THE CHURCHES OF SAINT ETIENNE-DU MONT AND OF SAINTE GENEVIEVE IN I7TH CENTURY. See page 207.
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