Paris past & present . ound withinits buildings. Its shops no longer attract fasli-ionable peo])le to their counters, and althouglithere are a few fine stores still within the j^laeethese do very little business now. In the day-time the Palais Royal is infested by tourists^wet-nurses and little children. At night it isdark, silent, and deserted. It is still beautifulin its way, but it reminds one of an old liber-tine who has reformed, and who, though virtu-ous now, seems bored to death. Another structure of that period in thehistory of Paris which deserves our notice is theelegant mansion know
Paris past & present . ound withinits buildings. Its shops no longer attract fasli-ionable peo])le to their counters, and althouglithere are a few fine stores still within the j^laeethese do very little business now. In the day-time the Palais Royal is infested by tourists^wet-nurses and little children. At night it isdark, silent, and deserted. It is still beautifulin its way, but it reminds one of an old liber-tine who has reformed, and who, though virtu-ous now, seems bored to death. Another structure of that period in thehistory of Paris which deserves our notice is theelegant mansion known as the Hotel de has already been made of the Palaisdes Thermes which was occupied by the Frank-ish Kings down to the end of the tentli cen-tury. When the Capets constructed a newroyal palace the old Roman building (juicklysaw a change in its destiny, and it was in a badcondition when Pliilippe Augustus made it apresent to one of liis cliamberlains in 1218. Itremained in that no))lemaiis family until the. OLD HOTEL DE SENS, THE HOTEL UE CLUNY. 119 middle of the foiirteentli century, when Pierrede Chains, Abbot of Cluny, purchased itand the surrounding lands. The Abbots ideawas to construct a residence near the collegewhich his Order owned close by the Sorbonneso that the monks of Cluny might lodge therewhen in Paris, That j)lan was not carried out,however, and it was during the reign of CharlesVIII that Jean de Bourbon undertook to buildthe house we now admire. He did not accom-plish the work, and the Hotel de Cluny was onlyfinished toward the close of the reign of CharlesVIII, and then by Jacques dAmboise, Abbotof Jumieges. Since then it has been in turnthe dwelling-place of a sister of Henry VIIIof England, the bridal chamber of James Vof Scotland, the residence of abbots, the theatreof strolling players, the abode of Papal Minis-ters, an observatory, a dissecting hall, a printing-office, a boarding school, etc. In 1832 it became the repository of one ofthe rar
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