. Paris and its story, by T. Okey; illustrated by Katherine Kimball & O. F. M. Ward . THE RENAISSANCE AT PARIS 147 merchants, grocers and druggists, made bright and fragrantthe Rue de laVerrerie,weavers shuttles rattledin the Rue de laTixanderie (nowswallowed upin the Rue deRivoli) ; curriersand tanners pliedtheir evil-smell-ing crafts in theRue (now Quai)de la Megisserie,and bakerscrowded alongthe Rue TheRue des Juifssheltered the an-cestral traffic ofthe children ofAbraham. Atthe foot of thePontau Change,on which werethe shops of thegoldsmiths andmoney - lenders,stood the grimthir
. Paris and its story, by T. Okey; illustrated by Katherine Kimball & O. F. M. Ward . THE RENAISSANCE AT PARIS 147 merchants, grocers and druggists, made bright and fragrantthe Rue de laVerrerie,weavers shuttles rattledin the Rue de laTixanderie (nowswallowed upin the Rue deRivoli) ; curriersand tanners pliedtheir evil-smell-ing crafts in theRue (now Quai)de la Megisserie,and bakerscrowded alongthe Rue TheRue des Juifssheltered the an-cestral traffic ofthe children ofAbraham. Atthe foot of thePontau Change,on which werethe shops of thegoldsmiths andmoney - lenders,stood the grimthirteenth - cen-tury fortress ofthe Chatelet, themunicipal guard-house and pris-on ; further on stood the episcopal prison, or. TOWER OF ST. JACOUES. Four de rEveque (the bishops oven). Round the Chatelet was a 148 PARIS AND ITS STORY congeries of narrow, crooked lanes, haunts of ill-fame, whererobbers lurked and vice festered. A little to the north werethe noisy market-place of the Halles and the cemetery of theInnocents with its piles of skulls, and its vaulted arcade painted(1424) with the Dance of Death. Further north stood theimmense abbey of St. Martin in the Fields, with its cloisterand gardens and, a little to the west, the grisly fortress ofthe Knights-Templars. This is the Paris conjured from thepast with such magic art by Victor Hugo in NotreDame, and gradually to be swept away in the next cen-turies by the Renaissance, pseudo-classic and Napoleonicbuilders and destroyers, until to-day scarcely a wrack isleft behind. With the Italian campaigns of Charles VIII. and of theearly Valois-Orleans kings, France enters the arena ofEuropean politics, wrestles with the mighty EmperorCharles V. and embarks on
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