. Twenty centuries of Paris . ELYSEE PALACE, RESIDENCE OF PRESIDENT OF CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES (PALAIS BOURBON). PARIS OF LOUIS WELL-BELOVED 283 promoted the construction of very few of them, Saint Philippe-du-Roule, replaceda leper hospital. A few years before theMadeleine was begun, a new church of SainteGenevieve was planned as a crown for the MontSainte Genevieve. Great difficulties had to beovercome in providing a firm foundation, for theelevation was found to be honeycombed with thequarries of Gallo-Roman days. It was fifty yearsafter its beginning before the adjoining
. Twenty centuries of Paris . ELYSEE PALACE, RESIDENCE OF PRESIDENT OF CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES (PALAIS BOURBON). PARIS OF LOUIS WELL-BELOVED 283 promoted the construction of very few of them, Saint Philippe-du-Roule, replaceda leper hospital. A few years before theMadeleine was begun, a new church of SainteGenevieve was planned as a crown for the MontSainte Genevieve. Great difficulties had to beovercome in providing a firm foundation, for theelevation was found to be honeycombed with thequarries of Gallo-Roman days. It was fifty yearsafter its beginning before the adjoining abbeychapel of Sainte Genevieve, which the new build-ing was to replace, was torn down, leaving thefine dome-crowned church—now the Pantheon—to stand uncrowded. Opposite the Pantheon to the west is the LawSchool, designed by the same architect, Soufflot. In public utilities Paris found herself some-what richer than before Louis reign. Thepostal service attained such effective organizationthat it made three deliveries a day and washoused in a large and adequately equipped
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