. Twenty centuries of Paris . TRIUMPHAL ARCH OF THE TRIUMPHAL ARCH OF THE STAR. PARIS OF NAPOLEON 331 The Madeleine shows the classic influence, asdoes the Bourse, whose heavy columns, whiledecorative, do not seem to be especially appro-priate for an Exchange. Victor Hugo scorn-fully says that so far as any apparent adaptationto its purpose is to be seen the Bourse might be akings palace, a House of Commons, a city hall,a college, a riding school, an academy, a store-house, a court house, a museum, barracks, atomb, a temple or a theater. And it might! The Bourse makes itself known
. Twenty centuries of Paris . TRIUMPHAL ARCH OF THE TRIUMPHAL ARCH OF THE STAR. PARIS OF NAPOLEON 331 The Madeleine shows the classic influence, asdoes the Bourse, whose heavy columns, whiledecorative, do not seem to be especially appro-priate for an Exchange. Victor Hugo scorn-fully says that so far as any apparent adaptationto its purpose is to be seen the Bourse might be akings palace, a House of Commons, a city hall,a college, a riding school, an academy, a store-house, a court house, a museum, barracks, atomb, a temple or a theater. And it might! The Bourse makes itself known at some dis-tance by the noise which rises from its coulisses or: wings —our curb —where a constant furyof chatter is going on. The pillared facade on the Seine side of thepresent Palace of Deputies was designed toharmonize with the f acade of the Madeleine at thenorthern end of the rue Royale. This front, con-spicuous from the Place de la Concorde, is not thereal front of the Palais Bourbon whose mainentrance is on the rue de lUniversite. While anything
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