Paris . pillent, violent, iricendient.—Touchard-Lafosse, Hist, de Paris, Only part of the buildings adjoining the Tour deIHorloge is ancient. Two round towers—de Cesar and deMontgommery—retain little that is really old, though theyhave been reconstructed in the style of the XIV. latter commemorates the tower, pulled down in1776, where the Earl of Montgomery was imprisonedafter fatally wounding Henri II. at a tournament, andwhere Ravaiilac, murderer of Henri IV., and Damiens, who 268 PARIS attempted to murder Louis XV., spent their last days. Athird tower, called Tour dArgent, encloses th
Paris . pillent, violent, iricendient.—Touchard-Lafosse, Hist, de Paris, Only part of the buildings adjoining the Tour deIHorloge is ancient. Two round towers—de Cesar and deMontgommery—retain little that is really old, though theyhave been reconstructed in the style of the XIV. latter commemorates the tower, pulled down in1776, where the Earl of Montgomery was imprisonedafter fatally wounding Henri II. at a tournament, andwhere Ravaiilac, murderer of Henri IV., and Damiens, who 268 PARIS attempted to murder Louis XV., spent their last days. Athird tower, called Tour dArgent, encloses the bell calledTocsin du Palais, which repeated the signal for the Mas-sacre of S. Bartholomew, given by S. Germain IAuxerrois. La residence des rois de France, dans Ille de la Cite, ^tait designeesous le nom du Palais par excellence, tandis quon disait le chllteaudu Louvre, le chiteau de Vincennes. Ce palais, dans lequel les souve-rains tinrent leur cour, depuis les Capetiens jusqua Charles V. pr^-. PALAIS DE LA CITg. sentait, au commencement du xiv siecle, une reunion de batimentsdont les plus anciens remontaient \ IVpoque de S. Louis, et lesderniers dataient du regne de Philippe le Bel. Des fouilles recemmentfaites dans Ienceinte du palais ont mis au jour quelques restes de con-structions gallo-romaines, notamment du c&te de la rue de la Barillerie ;mais dans Iensemble des batiments il ne reste rien dapparent qui soitanterieur au regne de Louis IX.—Viollst-le-Duc. Very little of the ancient palace remains. The beauti-ful gothic buildings of the XVI. c, erected by LouisXII., which surrounded the Cour du Mai, after having PALAIS DE LA CITE 269 long been much mutilated, totally perished in the threefires of 1618, 1737, and 1776. These fires also destroyedthe halls of S. Louis; the Hotel Isabeau, once occupiedby the faithless wife of Charles VI.; the rooms in whichthe Burgundians (June 10, 1467) seized the ComtedArmagnac, Constable of France, the Chancellor Henri deMasle,
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