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 219
nd east and west of the municipal centre, theMaison des Piliers, or old Hotel de Ville on the Place deGreve, was a maze of streets filled with the various crafts ofParis. The tower of St, Jacques de la Boucherie, as yetunfinished, emerged from the butchers and skinners shopsand slaughter-houses,… … THE RENAISSANCE AT PARIS 147 merchants, grocers and druggists, made bright and fragrantthe Rue de laVerrerie,weavers shuttles rattledin the Rue de laTixanderie (nowswallowed upin the Rue deRivoli) ; curriersand tanners pliedtheir evil-smell-ing crafts in theRue (now Quai)de la Megisserie,and…
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