Allinson, A. R. (Alfred Richard), Abbott, John Colby · London, New York : John Lane · leaf 249
ldings. All this is familiar enough ;but it is not so generally known, perhaps, that the oldGrand Chambre, the hall of meeting of the Parlementof Paris and the scene of so many momentous de-liberations and momentous events, still exists. It wasknown also as the Chambre Doree (the Gilded Cham-ber)… … STREETS AND PUBLIC BUILDINGS 181 on the occasion of holding a bed of justice. Here(August 16, 1655) Louis XIV delivered himself of thefamous LEtat cest moi ! (The State—I am theState), having ridden in, booted and spurred, from Vin-cennes to command the Parlement to register certaindecrees sans les…
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