. Twenty centuries of Paris . 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-tion of the arts in their expression of religiousspirit which has made the churches of Europeat once the treasure-house of the student and thedevotee, the inspiration of the poet, and the joyof the lover of color and of line. Both of theseChristian churches have stood on ground alreadyde
. Twenty centuries of Paris . 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-tion of the arts in their expression of religiousspirit which has made the churches of Europeat once the treasure-house of the student and thedevotee, the inspiration of the poet, and the joyof the lover of color and of line. Both of theseChristian churches have stood on ground alreadydedicated to religion, for under the choir of Notre 12 TWENTY CENTURIES OF PARIS Dame there was discovered in 1711 a pagan altar,now the chief relic of the museum in the inscription on the stone places it in thereign of the emperor Tiberius (14-37 a. d.),the successor of the great Augustus. Its inscrip-tion reads: When Tiberius was emperor theParisian Watermen publicly raised this altar toJupiter, best and The NAUTiE Watermen (Nautae) seem from earlydays to have been an important guild, first ascarriers of merchandise and later as an adminis-trative body. In the twelfth century the bandwas called the Brotherhood of Water Mer-chants, and its head the Provost of the WaterMerchants, a name given in shortened form—Provost of the Merchants—to the first magistrateof the city up to the time of the Revolution at theend of the eighteenth century. Even to-day suchof the duties of the Prefect of the Seine as apply EARLIEST PARIS 13 not to the Department of the Seine but to thecity of Paris alone are comparable to those ofthe Provost of the Merchants. From the seal ofthe Nautae, a boat, has developed the presentcoat of arms of the City of Paris. It was about the middle of the third centurythat the altar to greatest Jupiter began to bedeserted by its worshipers, for it was then thatSaint Denis came to Paris to preach the newreligion, and with his coming
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