Hamerton, Philip Gilbert, 1834-1894 · Boston, Roberts brothers · leaf 62
some architec-tural merit, with many noble intellectual associations;but any visitor to Paris who is cultivated enough to careabout such associations as the present building pos-sesses will probably have enough of the historic sense tocare about the Tour de Nesle, and interest enough inart to know… … Lutetia. 33 absolutely nothing about its history is likely to im-agine, when he sees the Louvre, that the site on which hefinds a picture-gallery was selected for the convenientexhibition of art-treasures; whereas the truth is that itwas first chosen for military reasons, when a fortresswas built…
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