. The charm of Paris : an anthology . an palace of the bishop; andeastward, the uninhabited point of the island, calledthe terrain, or ground, by distinction. Amid thataccumulation of houses the eye could also distinguish,by the high perforated mitres of stone, which at thatperiod, placed aloft upon the roof itself, surmountedthe highest range of palace windows, the mansionpresented by the Parisians, in the reign of Charles VI.,to Juvenal des Ursins ; a little farther on, the black,pitch-covered market-sheds of the Marche Palus;and in another direction, the new chancel of St. Ger-main-le-Vieux
. The charm of Paris : an anthology . an palace of the bishop; andeastward, the uninhabited point of the island, calledthe terrain, or ground, by distinction. Amid thataccumulation of houses the eye could also distinguish,by the high perforated mitres of stone, which at thatperiod, placed aloft upon the roof itself, surmountedthe highest range of palace windows, the mansionpresented by the Parisians, in the reign of Charles VI.,to Juvenal des Ursins ; a little farther on, the black,pitch-covered market-sheds of the Marche Palus;and in another direction, the new chancel of St. Ger-main-le-Vieux, lengthened, in 1458, by an encroach-ment upon one end of the Rue-aux-Febves 5 andthen, here and there, were to be seen some cross-way crowded with people—some pillory erected atthe comer of a street—some fine piece of the pave-ment of Philip-Augustus—a magnificent flagging,fxirrowed in the middle to prevent the horses fromslipping, and so ill-replaced in the sixteenth centuryby the wretched pebbling called pave de la Ligue—. PARIS OF THE PAST 347 some solitary backyard, with one of those trans-parent staircase-turrets which they used to build inthe fifteenth century, one of which is still to be seenin the Rue des Bourdonnais. And on the right ofthe Sainte-Chapelle, to the westward, the Palais deJustice rested its group of towers upon the watersbrink. The groves of the royal gardens which occu-pied the western point of the island, hid from viewthe islet of the Passeur. As for the water itself, itwas hardly visible from the towers of Notre-Dame,on either side of the City; the Seine disappearingunder the bridges, and the bridges under the when you looked beyond those bridges, theroofs upon which were tinged with green, having con-tracted untimely mouldiness from the vapours of thewater ; if you cast your eye on the left hand, towardthe University, the first edifice that struck it was alarge low cluster of towers, the Petit Chatelet, thegaping porch of which se
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