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But that which attracted the eyetime on that point, was the abbey itself It is certain that this rand air, both as a church and as a seignory; that abbatial palace, where the bishops of Paris counted theht; that refectory, upon which the architect had bestowed the air, the beauty, and the roseof a cathedral; that elegant chapel of the Virgin; that ardens; that portcullis; that drawbridge; that envelope of battle learouped and clustered about three lofty spires, with round arches, well planted upon a Gothic apse, ainst the horizon

When, at length, after having conte tiht bank, towards the Town, the character of the spectacle was abruptly altered The Town, in fact er than the University, was also less of a unit At the first glance, one saw that it was divided into ularly distinct First, to the eastward, in that part of the tohich still takes its naled Caesar, was a pile of palaces The block extended to the very water's edge Four aluous Hôtels, Jouy, Sens, Barbeau, the house of the Queen, mirrored their slate peaks, broken with slender turrets, in the Seine

These four edifices filled the space from the Rue des Nonaindières, to the abbey of the Celestins, whose spire gracefully relieved their line of gables and battle over the water in front of these sules of their façades, their large, square ith stone mullions, their pointed porches overloaded with statues, the vivid outlines of their walls, always clear cut, and all those char accidents of architecture, which cause Gothic art to have the air of beginning its combinations afresh with every monument

Behind these palaces, extended in all directions, now broken, fenced in, battlereat trees like a Carthusian convent, the immense and multiform enclosure of thatof France possessed thesuperbly two and twenty princes of the rank of the dauphin and the Duke of Burgundy, with their doreat lords, and the emperor when he came to view Paris, and the lions, who had their separate Hôtel at the royal Hôtel Let us say here that a prince's aparte rooms, froalleries, baths, vapor-baths, and other "superfluous places," hich each apartardens for each of the king's guests; not to eneral refectories of the house, the poultry-yards, where there were twenty-two general laboratories, froa; aviaries, fishponds, eries, stables, barns, libraries, arsenals and foundries This hat a king's palace, a Louvre, a Hôtel de Saint-Pol was then A city within a city