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Where the old wall of Paris, of which no vestige remains, ran down on the

east to the north bank of the river, the space in the angle between the

Seine and the ramparts beyond the Rue St Pol wore at this date an aspect

typical of the troubles of the tiloo Charles the

Sixth--and his wife, the abandoned Isabeau de Baviere--sprawled its alleries; a drearyfroe and

dark pleasaunces covered all the ground between the river and the Rue St

Antoine; and north of this, under the shadow of the eight great towers of

the Bastille, which looked, four outward to check the stranger, four

inward to bridle the town, a second palace, beginning where St Pol

ended, carried the realm of decay to the city wall

This second palace was the Hotel des Tournelles, a fantastic ables, that equally with its neighbour recalled the

days of the English doent

Bedford From his time it had res of France; but the death of Henry II, slain in

its lists by the lance of the sa

for his life before Guise, had given hisa distaste for it

Catherine de Medicis, her sons, and the Court had abandoned it; already