. Paris and its story, by T. Okey; illustrated by Katherine Kimball & O. F. M. Ward . display old painted signs : others retain their quaint appellations — The Sheeps Trotter, --ii^i;^^- The Golden Sun, The Cat and Ball. Turning westward by the Rue St. Honore, we shall find at the corner of the Rue de IArbre Sec the fine fountain of the Croix du Trahoir erected in the reign of Francis I. and rebuilt by Soufflot in 1775 : here tradition places the cruel death of Queen Brunehaut. Lower down, where the street intersects the Rue de Rivoli, an inscription on the corner house to the left marks the s
. Paris and its story, by T. Okey; illustrated by Katherine Kimball & O. F. M. Ward . display old painted signs : others retain their quaint appellations — The Sheeps Trotter, --ii^i;^^- The Golden Sun, The Cat and Ball. Turning westward by the Rue St. Honore, we shall find at the corner of the Rue de IArbre Sec the fine fountain of the Croix du Trahoir erected in the reign of Francis I. and rebuilt by Soufflot in 1775 : here tradition places the cruel death of Queen Brunehaut. Lower down, where the street intersects the Rue de Rivoli, an inscription on the corner house to the left marks the site of the Hotel de Mont- bazan, where Coligny was assassinated, and yet lower down the Rue de IArbre Sec we note the Hotel des Mous- quetaires, the dwelling of the famous DArtagan of Dumas Trots Mous- quetaires^ opposite the apse of the church of St. Germain IAuxerrois. After examining the interior of the church, especially the beautiful fifteenth-century Chambre des Archives, and the porch of the same date, we are brought face to face with the principal entrance to the NEAR THE PONT NEUF. 304 PARIS AND ITS STORY No other edifice in the world forms so vast a treasurehouse of rich and varied works of art as the great Palaceof the Louvre whose growth we have traced in our nucleus of the gallery of paintings was formed byFrancis I. and the Renaissance princes at the palace ofFontainebleau, where the canvases at the beginning of theseventeenth century had reached nearly 200. Colbert,during the reign of Louis XIV. by the purchase ofthe Mazarin and other collections, added 647 paintingsand nearly 6000 drawings in ten years. In 1681 theCabinet du Roi, for so the collection of royal pictureswas called, was transferred to the Louvre. They soon,however, followed their owner to Versailles, but somehundred were subsequently returned to Paris, where theymight be inspected at the Luxembourg Palace by thepublic on Wednesdays and Saturdays. In 1709 Bailly,the keeper of th
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