. Paris and its story, by T. Okey; illustrated by Katherine Kimball & O. F. M. Ward . fSt. Etienne du Mont the burial-place of Racine and Pascal,with its beautiful jube^ or choir screen, and the LyceeHenri IV., enclosing the tower of Clovis, all that remains ofthe fine old abbey church of St. Genevieve. Hard by is theRue Descartes, where stood the college of Navarre, whichwas demolished to give place to the Ecole south, the Rue de Navarre leads to the ruins of thegreat Roman amphitheatre. West of the Boulevard St. Michel are the fine modernbuildings of the Ecole de Medeci
. Paris and its story, by T. Okey; illustrated by Katherine Kimball & O. F. M. Ward . fSt. Etienne du Mont the burial-place of Racine and Pascal,with its beautiful jube^ or choir screen, and the LyceeHenri IV., enclosing the tower of Clovis, all that remains ofthe fine old abbey church of St. Genevieve. Hard by is theRue Descartes, where stood the college of Navarre, whichwas demolished to give place to the Ecole south, the Rue de Navarre leads to the ruins of thegreat Roman amphitheatre. West of the Boulevard St. Michel are the fine modernbuildings of the Ecole de Medecine, which, from 1369to the times of Louis XV., was situated further east-wards in the Rue de la Bucherie, where (No. 13) someremains of the old hall of the Faculty may yet beseen. It was here that an anatomical and surgicaltheatre was built in 1617. The old Franciscan refectory(No. 15 Rue de IEcole de Medecine) is all thatremains of the great monastery of the the body of Marat was laid on an altar, after hisassassination by Charlotte Corday in a house on whose site. OLD ACADEMY OF MEDICINE. 290 PARIS AND ITS STORY his statue stands. The refectory is now used as a patho-losical museum for medical students. The famous revolu-tionary club of the Cordeliers, where the gentler rhetoric ofCamille Desmoulins vied with the thunderous declamationof Danton to stir Republican fervour, met in the Hall ofTheology. At No. 5 are some remains of the school ofsurgery, or Guild of St. Cosimo and St. Damian, founded bySt. Louis ; adjacent stood the church of St. Cosimo (), famous for the fiery zeal of its cure during thetimes of the League. The surgeons were by their charter compelled to giveprofessional assistance to the poor every Monday, and in1561 the cure and churchwardens of St. Cosme obtained apapal bull authorising them to erect in their church a suitableconsulting hall for the accommodation of poor patients. In1694 the surgeons built an anatomical theatre of their
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