. Twenty centuries of Paris . e mainland end, connectedthe island with the right bank and with the roadthreading its way northward to avoid the marshwhose name (Marais) is still given to a districtof the city. Where now on the north shore isthe square in front of the Hotel de Ville therehas always been an open place, originally keptfree for the landing of merchandise from theriver boats. This open place was called theGreve or Strand, and the busy scenes enactedupon it sometimes included quarrels between themasters and the longshoremen. Such a disputecame to be called a greve, the French word t
. Twenty centuries of Paris . e mainland end, connectedthe island with the right bank and with the roadthreading its way northward to avoid the marshwhose name (Marais) is still given to a districtof the city. Where now on the north shore isthe square in front of the Hotel de Ville therehas always been an open place, originally keptfree for the landing of merchandise from theriver boats. This open place was called theGreve or Strand, and the busy scenes enactedupon it sometimes included quarrels between themasters and the longshoremen. Such a disputecame to be called a greve, the French word to-day for a strike. Where now the Palais Royal rises on the rightbank, a reservoir held water to supply the pub-lic baths. Tombs clustered along the roads lead-ing north and east, for cemeteries were not al-lowed within Roman cities. Otherwise the northside of the river with its unwholesome marshwas but scantily populated. Far different was the southern or left bank,sloping pleasantly to the Seine from Mons Lu- EARLIEST PARIS. LUTETIA UNDER THE ROMANS. 8 TWENTY CENTURIES OF PARIS cotetius. This hill is now known as MontSainte Genevieve and is crowned by the church,Saint Etienne-du-Mont, that holds her tomb, andby the Pantheon, long dedicated to her, but nowa secular building. This southern district wasdrained by the little stream, Bievre, whosewaters in later times were believed to hold somechemical properties which accounted for thebrilliancy of the tapestries made in the Gobelinsfactory situated on its banks. Fields, fruitful invines and olive trees, clustered around villaswhich the Romans knew well how to build forcomfort and beauty, and which the conqueredGauls were not slow to adopt, modifying theform to their needs as they modified the Romandress, covering with the graceful toga the busi-ness-like garments of older Gaul. The later emperors came often to , too, saw the beauty of the rivers left bankconnected with the Cite by a fortified one of them,
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