Old Time Paris a Plain Guide to Its Chief Survivals
Old Time Paris a Plain Guide to Its Chief Survivals
George Frederick Edwards
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Im- mediately at the end of the Mairie you find (L) the RUE VIEILLE-DU-TEMPLE. Along the Rue Vieille-du-Temple, then, walk- ing along the (R) side of the street. No. 47 (L) is the H6TEL DE HOLLANDE, built in the reign of Louis XIII (1638) as an official residence for the Dutch Ambassador. This fact at once gives you a keynote as to the importance of the district as late as the seventeenth century. Those doors are good to look upon in their solidity and with the excellence of their carving. No s...pecial care is taken of this work : yet it has stood the stress of time through more than two and a half centuries. There are two courtyards : you may enter them for a moment if you wish. Pass the market on your (R). At the corner of the second street after this (Rue des Francs- Bourgeois) is a beautiful mediaeval house, No. 54, one of the prettiest corners in Old-Time Paris. FIFTH DAY IOT You will be specially attracted by the very elegant Gothic Turret with pointed roof placed at the angle. Don't miss its old barred window.
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