. Twenty centuries of Paris . is power; great artists and architects builtgrandly in his honor. It is not strange that hethought himself what others called him, the Grand Monarque and the Roi Soleil. Centralization was the basic policy of Louisscareer. In Paris it took the form of substitutinga law court under royal control for the localcourts in different parts of the city, and in makingthe municipal offices purchasable from theking. Municipal improvements made the citypleasanter to live in. An effort was made—notvery successfully from the modern point of view—to keep the streets clean, and a
. Twenty centuries of Paris . is power; great artists and architects builtgrandly in his honor. It is not strange that hethought himself what others called him, the Grand Monarque and the Roi Soleil. Centralization was the basic policy of Louisscareer. In Paris it took the form of substitutinga law court under royal control for the localcourts in different parts of the city, and in makingthe municipal offices purchasable from theking. Municipal improvements made the citypleasanter to live in. An effort was made—notvery successfully from the modern point of view—to keep the streets clean, and at night a lanternwas hung midway between cross streets andburned until midnight. As the number of lightsinstalled was but 6,500 and Paris at that timecovered some four square miles of territory itmay be seen that the illumination was not daz-zling. It was enough, however, to be of assistanceto Louis new police force, and to make visiblein the evening as well as the morning the twogates—of Saint Denis and Saint Martin—. HOTEL DES INVALIDES. ^h-V/tf
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