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So Charles V's wall suffered the fate of that of Philip Augustus At the end of the fifteenth century, the Faubourg strides across it, passes beyond it, and runs farther In the sixteenth, it seems to retreat visibly, and to bury itself deeper and deeper in the old city, so thick had the new city already beco with the fifteenth century, where our story finds us, Paris had already outgrown the three concentric circles of walls which, froerhty city had cracked, in succession, its four enclosures of walls, like a child grown too large for his garments of last year Under Louis XI, this sea of houses was seen to be pierced at intervals by several groups of ruined towers, from the ancient wall, like the suos of the old Paris subone yet another transformation, unfortunately for our eyes; but it has passed only one more wall, that of Louis XV, thatwho built it, worthy of the poet who sung it,-~LeParis makes Paris murmur

In the fifteenth century, Paris was still divided into three wholly distinct and separate towns, each having its own physiognoes, and history: the City, the University, the Town The City, which occupied the island, was the most ancient, the smallest, and the mother of the other two, crowded in between them like (may we be pardoned the coe and handsome maidens The University covered the left bank of the Seine, from the Tournelle to the Tour de Nesle, points which correspond in the Paris of to-day, the one to the wine e part of that plain where Julian had built his hot baths The hill of Sainte-Geneviève was enclosed in it The culate, that is to say, near the present site of the Pantheon The Tohich was the largest of the three fraght bank Its quay, broken or interrupted inthe Seine, from the Tour de Billy to the Tour du Bois; that is to say, froranary stands to-day, to the present site of the Tuileries These four points, where the Seine intersected the wall of the capital, the Tournelle and the Tour de Nesle on the right, the Tour de Billy and the Tour du Bois on the left, were called pre-eminently, "the four towers of Paris" The Town encroached still more extensively upon the fields than the University The cul point of the Toall (that of Charles V) was at the gates of Saint-Denis and Saint-Martin, whose situation has not been changed