. Twenty centuries of Paris . that he lived up to. Economical even topenuriousness elsewhere, he built lavishly inParis. His improvement of the Louvre hasbeen mentioned. In the northeast corner of thequadrangle were a garden, tennis court and me-nagerie. A library of nearly a thousand vol-umes was housed in three stories of one of thetowers. Charles was a great student, read theentire Bible through every year, and had a corpsof translators, transcribers, illuminators andbinders always at work. His collection was thenucleus of the present National Library al-though the Duke of Bedford carried o
. Twenty centuries of Paris . that he lived up to. Economical even topenuriousness elsewhere, he built lavishly inParis. His improvement of the Louvre hasbeen mentioned. In the northeast corner of thequadrangle were a garden, tennis court and me-nagerie. A library of nearly a thousand vol-umes was housed in three stories of one of thetowers. Charles was a great student, read theentire Bible through every year, and had a corpsof translators, transcribers, illuminators andbinders always at work. His collection was thenucleus of the present National Library al-though the Duke of Bedford carried off agoodly number of books to England in the laterpart of the Hundred Years War. The royal PARIS OF CHARLES V 161 apartments in the Louvre, elaborately carvedand decorated, were large and well rooms of the queen, Jeanne de Bourbon,were on the south side overlooking the river, andthe kings were on the north. Each of the chil-dren had a separate suite and that of thedauphin rivaled in size and elegance those of his. The Old Louvre. father and mother. Each set of rooms had itsown chapel. The palace on the Cite was full of unpleasantmemories of the days of the regency—notablythe murder of the marshals—and Charles nodoubt was glad when the overcrowding causedby the business of the courts allowed him tobreak away from the tradition of royal residenceunder the ancient roof. With all its changes 162 TWENTY CENTURIES OF PARIS the Louvre still was a rather grim dwelling, andCharles chose a more open location at the ex-treme east of the city for his new Hotel SaintPaul. He bought existing houses, some ofwhich he demolished, and land and laid out alarge establishment of which the present namesof streets in the vicinity suggest varied uses,though none of the original buildings are streets of the Garden, of the Cherry Or-chard, of the Fair Trellis, of the Lions tell theirown stories, while the rue Charles V, a tiny thor-oughfare, is the only street memorial in all P
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