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Page 140 - Martin, and ending at the PLACE DE LA BASTILLE. — The Bastille was attacked and captured by the people on the 14th of July, 1789. In May and June of the following year it was demolished, in pursuance of a decree of the National Assembly, and part of the materials were employed in the construction of the Pont de la Concorde.
Page 218 - Close to this spot there is one of the entrances to the CATACOMBS. — These immense receptacles for the bones of the dead were devoted to that purpose in 1784, when the Council of State issued a decree for clearing the cemetery of the Innocents, and for removing its contents, as well as those of other cemeteries, into the quarries that had existed from a remote period beneath the southern part of Paris, and by which...
Page 267 - It is 14 feet in height by 10 in breadth, and 12 and a half in length. It is adorned with twelve composite columns of deep blue marble, and 12 pilasters of white marble. At the angles are four bronze figures representing the cardinal virtues.
Page 138 - ... principal parts. It was in this palace that the masquerade took place, which so nearly proved fatal to Charles VI. ; and it was in the great court that the tournament was held, in which Henry II., tilting with the Count de Montgommeri, received a wound in the eye, of which he died, (see p. I69n.) In consequence of this event, Catherine de Medicis caused the palacvto be demolished in 1565, and the present " place " was begun in 1604, under Henry IV.
Page 90 - The square is enclosed with balustrades, terminating in the basements of eight colossal statues of the chief provincial cities, viz. Lille and Strasburg, by Pradier; Bordeaux and Nantes, by Calhouet ; Marseilles and Brest, by Cortot ; Rouen and Lyons, by Petitot. Twenty rostral columns, bearing lamps, are placed along the balustrades, and 40 ornamental lamp-posts border the carriage-ways.
Page 245 - Admission to the Chateau, stables, and grounds is obtained without difficulty. The forest of Chantilly, adjoining the park, contains 7,600 acres. In the midst of it is a circular area called the Table Ronde, from which 12 roads branch in different directions, and this is the ordinary rendezvous of sporting parties. The pretty lakes of Commelle, at about an hour's walk across the forest, are...
Page 281 - Sec., are preserved during winter, and in summer are removed to the walks of the Orangery, and other parts of the garden.
Page 249 - ERMENONVILLE — lo leagues north-east of Paris, is remarkable for its chateau, in a dependency of which Jean-Jacques Rousseau died. M. de Girardin, having learnt that the smallness of Rousseau's income had compelled him to quit Paris, invited him to Ermenonville, where he arrived on the 20th May, 1778, but died on the 2d July following, and was buried in an island in the great park, called lie des Peupliers, where a monument was erected to his memory.
Page 219 - ... heaped up without any kind of order, except that those from each cemetery were kept separate. In 1810, a regular system of arranging the bones was commenced under the direction of M. Hericart de Thury. Openings were made in many places to admit air, channels formed to carry off the water, steps were constructed from the lower to the upper excavations, pillars erected to support the dangerous parts of the vault, and the skulls and bones built up along the walls. — For...
Page 264 - History. — This town owes its celebrity to its ancient Benedictine Abbey, and to the circumstance of the kings of France having chosen the abbey-church for their place of burial. A chapel was founded here in honour of St. Denis about 250, in which Dagobert, son of Chilperic, was buried in 580, being Ihe first prince known to have been interred within its walls.