. Paris and its story, by T. Okey; illustrated by Katherine Kimball & O. F. M. Ward . red so little for it, thathe suffered it to be pulled down. Many new streets^ were made, and others widened,among them the ill-omened Rue de la Ferronnerie. Thenorthern ramparts were levelled and planted with treesfrom the Porte St. Antoine in the east to the Porte in the west, and in 1704 it was decided tocontinue the planting in the south round the FaubourgSt. Germain. The Place Louis le Grand (now Vendome),and the Place des Victoires were created ; the riverembajikments were renewed and extended,
. Paris and its story, by T. Okey; illustrated by Katherine Kimball & O. F. M. Ward . red so little for it, thathe suffered it to be pulled down. Many new streets^ were made, and others widened,among them the ill-omened Rue de la Ferronnerie. Thenorthern ramparts were levelled and planted with treesfrom the Porte St. Antoine in the east to the Porte in the west, and in 1704 it was decided tocontinue the planting in the south round the FaubourgSt. Germain. The Place Louis le Grand (now Vendome),and the Place des Victoires were created ; the riverembajikments were renewed and extended, and a fine stonePont Royal by J. H. Mansard, the most beautiful ofthe existing bridges of Paris, was built to replace theold wooden structure that led from the St. Germainquarter to the Tuileries. This in its turn had replaceda ferry [l?ac) established by the Guild of Ferrymen, totransport the stone needed for the construction of the The sixth part of a sou. ^ Twelve alone were added to the St. Honore quarter by levellingthe Hill of St. Roch and clearing away accumulated 226 PARIS AND ITS STORY Tuileries, and the street which leads to the bridge stillbears the name of the Rue du Bac. The Isle Louvierswas acquired by the Ville, and the evil-smelling tanneriesand dye-houses that disfigured the banks of the Seinebetween the Greve and the Chatelet were cleared away ;many new fountains embellished the city, and ten newpumps increased the supply of water. The poorer quarterswere, however, little changed from their old insanitarycondition. A few years later Rousseau, fresh from Turin,was profoundly disappointed by the streets of Paris as heentered the city by the Faubourg St. Marceau. I hadimagined, he writes, a city as fair as it was great, andof a most imposing aspect, whose superb streets werelined with palaces of marble and of gold. I saw onlyfilthy, evil-smelling, mean streets, ugly houses black withdirt, a general air of uncleanness and of poverty, beggarsand carters,
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