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Paris in old and present times (1885)

Hamerton, Philip Gilbert, 1834-1894 · Boston, Roberts brothers · leaf 58

An illustration from Paris in old and present times, 1885, leaf 58
s V. The exact situation of the Tour de Nesle was wherethe eastern or right wing of the Institute stands at thepresent day. 1 This is one o£ the best-known popular legends in France, being atthe same time romantic and horrible, and therefore exactly suited to thepopular taste; but I have very… … Lutetia. 31 The reader is now requested to transport himself inimagination across the river till he is in the courtyardof what is now the old Louvre, the great square court-yard of the palace. Let him stand, in imagination, pre-cisely in the very centre of that square and looksouthward, or towards…

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