. Twenty centuries of Paris . HOTEL DES INVALIDES. ^h-V/tf. SAINT a print of about 1820. PARIS OF THE GRAND MONARQUE 267 erected by the admiring Parisians to do honor tohis early victories. The fire department be-came a lay institution at this time for, rathercuriously, fire fighting had previously been thework of a religious house. The population isestimated at between eight and nine hundredthousand. Two new squares of this century were the Placedes Victoires, in front of Notre Dame desVictoires, and the Place Vendome, north of therue Saint Honore. By a city regulation nochange i

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. Twenty centuries of Paris . HOTEL DES INVALIDES. ^h-V/tf. SAINT a print of about 1820. PARIS OF THE GRAND MONARQUE 267 erected by the admiring Parisians to do honor tohis early victories. The fire department be-came a lay institution at this time for, rathercuriously, fire fighting had previously been thework of a religious house. The population isestimated at between eight and nine hundredthousand. Two new squares of this century were the Placedes Victoires, in front of Notre Dame desVictoires, and the Place Vendome, north of therue Saint Honore. By a city regulation nochange is permitted to-day of the facades ofthe buildings on these two open places. At the extreme eastern end of modern Paristhe Place de la Xation is the former Place duTrone, which received its name when in 1660Louis sat upon a temporary throne beyond thecity wall to receive congratulations upon havingsecured the Peace of the Pyrenees. The poet Scarron, husband of FranchisedAubigne who, after his death, became thegoverness of the kings children by Madame deMon

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