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The populace thronged the avenues of the law courts in particular, because they knew that the Flemish ambassadors, who had arrived two days previously, intended to be present at the representation of the mystery, and at the election of the Pope of the Fools, which was also to take place in the grand hall

It was no easy rand hall, although it was then reputed to be the largest covered enclosure in the world (it is true that Sauval had not yet is) The palace place, encuazers at the s the aspect of a sea; into which five or six streets, like so ed every les of the houses which projected here and there, like so ular basin of the place In the centre of the lofty Gothic façade of the palace, the grand staircase, incessantly ascended and descended by a double current, which, after parting on the inter its lateral slopes,--the grand staircase, I say, trickled incessantly into the place, like a cascade into a lake The cries, the laughter, the trareat noise and a great clamor From time to time, this noise and clarand staircase flowed backwards, became troubled, formed whirlpools This was produced by the buffet of an archer, or the horse of one of the provost's sergeants, which kicked to restore order; an admirable tradition which the provostship has bequeathed to the constablery, the constablery to the ~maréchaussée~, the ~endarmeri~ of Paris

The word Gothic, in the sense in which it is generally employed, is wholly unsuitable, but wholly consecrated Hence we accept it and we adopt it, like all the rest of the world, to characterize the architecture of the second half of the Middle Ages, where the ogive is the principle which succeeds the architecture of the first period, of which the seeois faces thronged the s, the doors, the dor at the populace, and asking nothing more; for many Parisians content themselves with the spectacle of the spectators, and a wall behind which so on beco indeed