. Twenty centuries of Paris . llstones are held by the extraordinarily tenaciousRoman cement and are varied by occasional thin,horizontal layers of red tiles. At present theyare built into the walls of a chateau which hasrecently been bequeathed to the town for an oldmens home. Somewhere south of the palace and not farfrom it was a garrison to protect the suburb andthe Cite from southern invasion. That it wasnot greatly needed during this peaceful andprosperous period seems proved by the fact thatLutetias amusement ground was not withinits easy reach, but on the eastern slope of MonsLucotetius
. Twenty centuries of Paris . llstones are held by the extraordinarily tenaciousRoman cement and are varied by occasional thin,horizontal layers of red tiles. At present theyare built into the walls of a chateau which hasrecently been bequeathed to the town for an oldmens home. Somewhere south of the palace and not farfrom it was a garrison to protect the suburb andthe Cite from southern invasion. That it wasnot greatly needed during this peaceful andprosperous period seems proved by the fact thatLutetias amusement ground was not withinits easy reach, but on the eastern slope of MonsLucotetius. Here at some time during theRoman occupation, perhaps during the secondor third century, an amphitheater was built, andhere emperors and generals and merchants,Romans and Gauls, gazed upon the pageants andcontests of the arena. Christianity wrought amilder mood in her believers and even before theinvasion of the Franks the stone seats of theellipse had been converted to other was discovered, however, some thirty.
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