. Twenty centuries of Paris . bliged to give up her royalapartments to the young queen when Charlesmarried, and, counting her daughters and daugh-ter-in-law there were four queens with their ret-inues to be housed in the old palace. Near thechurch of Saint Eustache the dowager-queenselected a location to her fancy for the buildingof a new palace, but the ground was occupiedby a refuge of Filles Penitentes. With the entirelack of consideration for others peculiar to thepowerful, Catherine had this establishment razedand its inmates removed to an abbey on the rueSaint Denis. The religious of the
. Twenty centuries of Paris . bliged to give up her royalapartments to the young queen when Charlesmarried, and, counting her daughters and daugh-ter-in-law there were four queens with their ret-inues to be housed in the old palace. Near thechurch of Saint Eustache the dowager-queenselected a location to her fancy for the buildingof a new palace, but the ground was occupiedby a refuge of Filles Penitentes. With the entirelack of consideration for others peculiar to thepowerful, Catherine had this establishment razedand its inmates removed to an abbey on the rueSaint Denis. The religious of the abbey, in theirturn, were sent to the top of the Mont SainteGenevieve, where they took possession of the oldhospital of Saint Jacques-du-Haut-Pas, whosename still clings to the parish and the church. PARIS OF THE REFORMATION 223 The construction for which all this moving gaveplace was a charming palace known as the Hotelde Soissons of which nothing is left but a gracefulpillar from whose top it is said that Catherine Piiiill. fegglll Column at the Hotel deSoissons. indulged in the harmless amusement of star-gaz-ing. The palace was pulled down in 1749 to giveplace to the Corn Exchange, and that, in 1887,to allow the erection of the Bourse de Com-merce. More ambitious was a southwestern addition 224 TWENTY CENTURIES OF PARIS to the Louvre, a wing going to meet the river, andanother at right angles following the stream west-ward. This extension parallel with the Seinewas begun with the idea of continuing it to meetthe palace of the Tuileries (see plan of Louvre,Chapter XXII) which the queen had begun onthe site of some ancient tile-yards to the west ofthe Louvre. Only the central facade was finishedin Catherines day, a pavilion containing a superbstaircase and crowned by a dome, connected bytwo open galleries with what was planned to bethe buildings surrounding the quadrangle. Theworkmanship was exquisitely delicate. Itsbeauty was enhanced by a lovely formal gardenlaid out by tha
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