. The days of the Directoire . led, a plan of Paris executedin the sixteenth century and preserved in the Biblio-theque Nationale. We must picture them still linedwith rows of houses on either side, like old LondonBridge, and all, and above all the Pont au Change, thecentres of infinite press of traffic and endless bustle andcommercial energy. Of squares and open spaces, the Place des Vosges,under the Monarchy the Place Royale, under theRepublic the Place de lTndivisibilite, but already by theclose of the eighteenth century completely fallen from itsancient high estate as the focus of fashiona
. The days of the Directoire . led, a plan of Paris executedin the sixteenth century and preserved in the Biblio-theque Nationale. We must picture them still linedwith rows of houses on either side, like old LondonBridge, and all, and above all the Pont au Change, thecentres of infinite press of traffic and endless bustle andcommercial energy. Of squares and open spaces, the Place des Vosges,under the Monarchy the Place Royale, under theRepublic the Place de lTndivisibilite, but already by theclose of the eighteenth century completely fallen from itsancient high estate as the focus of fashionable and Courtlife, and the Place Vendome, originally Place Louis-le-Grand, under the Republic Place des Conquetes orPlace des Piques, constructed chiefly from Mansartsdesigns by order of the Grand Monarque, were alreadyin existence, and looked much as they do to-day. Thesame may be said of the famous, and infamous, Placede Greve, now Place de lHotel de Ville and considerablyenlarged in area, the Place Maubert, a great pleasure. STREETS AND PUBLIC BUILDINGS 171resort of the Parisian ettidiant and his etudiante in thepalmy days of the University of Paris, with its numerouscolleges scattered over the whole district of the QuartierLatin, and the Place de la Nation, at the eastern end ofthe Faubourg Saint-Antoine, first known as the Placedu Trone, then renamed under the Republic the Placedu Trone Renverse or Place de la Barriere Renversee,and occupied by a second guillotine en per?Jianence,which claimed only fewer victims than that in the Placede la Republique. ******The latter, the Place de la Republique, now Place dela Concorde, and the Champs Elysees already wore thesame general appearance as at present. The ChampsElysees, indeed, were greatly improved under the Revo-lutionary and Directorial regime. The Champs-Elysees, that green expanse thatis to form the centre of the new Faubourg Saint-Germain of the nineteenth century, that vast publicgarden bordered by lines of superb mansi
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