. Twenty centuries of Paris . INTERIOR OF THE ROMAN PALAIS DES AMPHITHEATER OF LUTETIA AT PRESENT TIME. EARLIEST PARIS 11 years ago to permit an adequate idea of theoriginal appearance. To Julian has been attributed the rebuildingof the Cite, and excavations at different pointshave unearthed remains unmistakably of Romanworkmanship, which show that the island wascompletely surrounded by a wall. Probablysome of the stones of the amphitheater went intoit. This fortification has been related to thefourth century, and it is known that on the spotin the Cite where the Palais de Justice no
. Twenty centuries of Paris . INTERIOR OF THE ROMAN PALAIS DES AMPHITHEATER OF LUTETIA AT PRESENT TIME. EARLIEST PARIS 11 years ago to permit an adequate idea of theoriginal appearance. To Julian has been attributed the rebuildingof the Cite, and excavations at different pointshave unearthed remains unmistakably of Romanworkmanship, which show that the island wascompletely surrounded by a wall. Probablysome of the stones of the amphitheater went intoit. This fortification has been related to thefourth century, and it is known that on the spotin the Cite where the Palais de Justice nowhouses the law courts, an administrative build-ing of some kind has stood since this same earlydate. One of Julians successors, Maximus,erected a triumphal arch near the cathedral in383, and it is probable that other pretentiousstructures justified the erection of the protect-ing wall. The cathedral was a church dedicated to SaintEtienne, modest as compared with its medievalsuccessor, Notre Dame, whose sacristy is placedon the same spot, yet showing that concentra-ti
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