. Paris and environs with routes from London to Paris; handbook for travellers. 299), on the slope of theBois de Clamart (see pp. 296 and 299). The first chateau at Meudon belonged in the 16th cent, to the DuchessedEtampes, mistress of Francis I., and after changing hands several timeswas bought by Louis XIV. It then became the residence of the Dauphin,who, however, built a second chateau in the neighbourhood, though theformer one was not finally demolished till 1803. The second chateau,afterwards occupied by the Empress Marie Louise, the King of Rome,and lastly Prince Xapoleon, was set on fir
. Paris and environs with routes from London to Paris; handbook for travellers. 299), on the slope of theBois de Clamart (see pp. 296 and 299). The first chateau at Meudon belonged in the 16th cent, to the DuchessedEtampes, mistress of Francis I., and after changing hands several timeswas bought by Louis XIV. It then became the residence of the Dauphin,who, however, built a second chateau in the neighbourhood, though theformer one was not finally demolished till 1803. The second chateau,afterwards occupied by the Empress Marie Louise, the King of Rome,and lastly Prince Xapoleon, was set on fire by a shell and reduced to aheap of ruins during the Prussian bombardment of Paris in 1871. It hassince been partly restored. The Terrace and the Bois are the chief attractions of the intersection of the Avenue Jacqueminot, which leads from thestation, and the Rue de la Republique, which traverses old Meudon,is a Bronze Bust of Rabelais ri483-1553), cur^ de Meudon(?), byTrupheme. The Avenue Jacqueminot ends at the Avenue de Meu- Ve I- s allies 11* ^P^ %M- Y-^r-r. «•. 14. MEUDON. 299 don (or du Chateau), bordered by four rows of lime-trees, ^vhich be-gins at Bellevue (p. 298), beyond the railway on the left bank, about1/2 M. from the terrace. At the beginning of the latter is a Monu-ment du Centenaire, a symbolical bronze bust by Courbet (1889). The *Terrace of Meudon, supported by huge walls, commands abeautiful * View of Paris. The public are not admitted to the re-mains of the chateau, now an Observatory. The Bois de Meudon (Maps, opposite and p. 300), part of whichis enclosed as the Park of the chateau, lies on the heights betweenMeudon and the valley of Sevres, Chaville, and Viroflay, and on theheights on the other side of the valley of Meudon, this latter partbeing also named the Bois de Clamart. The wood is intersected bypleasant paths (finger-posts), but otherwise has been left prettymuch in a state of nature. The ground is hilly between the partsknown as t
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