Paris and its story, by T. Okey; illustrated by Katherine Kimball & O. F. M. Ward (1904)
Okey, Thomas, 1852-1935 · London : J. M. Dent & co.; New York, The Macmillan co. · leaf 123
of diamond-necklacefame, effected the saleof the buildings in1779 to a syndicate ofspeculators, an act ofjobbery which broughthis eminence a hand-some commission, thehospital was situatedbetween the PalaisRoyal and the Louvre.Originally it was anight shelter, whitherthe poor blind mightrepair after… … REFECTORY OF THE CORDELIERS. SAINT LOUIS 75 privileged to place collecting-boxes and to beg inside thechurches. Since, however, the differences in the relativeopulence of churches was great, the right to beg incertain of the richer ones was put up to auction everyyear, and those who promised to pay…
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