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 431
Maison aux Piliers(House of the Pillars), a long, low building, whose upperfloor was supported by columns. Here every revolutionaryand democratic movement has been organised from the daysof Marcel to those of the Communes of 1789—when thelast Provost of the Merchants met his death—and of 1871,when… … ST. GERVAIS. July 1830, when the last murderer was hung there, hassoaked up the blood of many a famous enemy of State andChurch and of innumerable notorious and obscure criminals.A permanent gibbet stood there and a market cross. EverySt. Johns eve—the church and cloister of St. Jean stood THE…
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