. Paris and its story, by T. Okey; illustrated by Katherine Kimball & O. F. M. Ward . e Baptistry(St. Jean le Rond) and St. Denis du Pas against the Pierre aux Bceufs, whose facade has been transferred toSt. Severins on the south bank, stood at the east corner,St. Christopher at the west corner of the present HotelDieu which covers the site of eleven streets and threechurches. The old twelfth-century hospital, demolished in1878, occupied the whole space, south of the Parvisbetween the present Petit Pont and the Pont au possessed its own bridge, the Pont St. Charles, overwhic
. Paris and its story, by T. Okey; illustrated by Katherine Kimball & O. F. M. Ward . e Baptistry(St. Jean le Rond) and St. Denis du Pas against the Pierre aux Bceufs, whose facade has been transferred toSt. Severins on the south bank, stood at the east corner,St. Christopher at the west corner of the present HotelDieu which covers the site of eleven streets and threechurches. The old twelfth-century hospital, demolished in1878, occupied the whole space, south of the Parvisbetween the present Petit Pont and the Pont au possessed its own bridge, the Pont St. Charles, overwhich the buildings stretched, and joined the annexe (1606),which still exists on the opposite side of the river. BehindNotre Dame in mediaeval times was an open space of waste 28 I 282 PARIS AND ITS STORY land, the Motte aux Papelards, where the servants of theCathedral disported themselves. To the east and north-eaststood the cloisters and canons dwellings, a veritable citywithin a city, with four gates and fifty-one houses. CanonFulberts house stood on the site of No. lo Rue S%i:^l. NOTRE DAME, SOUTH SIDE. Chanoinesse, and at No. 9 Quai aux Fleurs an inscriptionmarks the site of the house of Heloise and Abelard. TheRue and Pont dArcole have cleared away the old church ofSt. Landry and the port of that name, where up to thereign of Louis XIII. a market was held, at which foundlingchildren from the hospital on the Parvis could be boughtfor thirty sous. The scandal was abolished by the efforts
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