. Paris as seen and described by famous writers ... Dame for the entry of the king into Paris. After the archbishops of Sens ceased to be metropolitansof Paris (which was raised from a bishopric to an archbish-opric in 1622), they deserted their Hotel, though they wereonly dispossessed as proprietors by the Revolution. In thelast century the Hotel became a diligence office; now afahrique de confitures occupies the chamber of la galantereine^ but the building is still a beautiful and importantspecimen of the first years of the Sixteenth Century, andno one should fail to visit its gothic gateway
. Paris as seen and described by famous writers ... Dame for the entry of the king into Paris. After the archbishops of Sens ceased to be metropolitansof Paris (which was raised from a bishopric to an archbish-opric in 1622), they deserted their Hotel, though they wereonly dispossessed as proprietors by the Revolution. In thelast century the Hotel became a diligence office; now afahrique de confitures occupies the chamber of la galantereine^ but the building is still a beautiful and importantspecimen of the first years of the Sixteenth Century, andno one should fail to visit its gothic gateway defended bytwo encorbelled tourelles with high peaked roofs. A porch,with vaulting irregular in plan, but exquisite in execution;its brick chimneys, great halls, the square donjon tower at 252 PARIS the back of the court, and the winding stair of the tourelle^remain entire ; only the chapel has been destroyed. Onthe left of the entrance is an eight-pounder ball, whichlodged in the wall, July 28, 1830, during the attack on theconvent of Ave
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