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Historic Paris by Jetta Sophia Wolff

CHAPTER XXV

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L’ODÉON An interesting corner of Old Paris lies on the north-east side of the Odéon. Rue Racine, opening on the _place_ before the theatre, runs through the ancient territory of the Cordeliers. Vestiges of a Roman cemetery were found in recent years beneath the soil at No. 28, and at No. 11 were unearthed traces of the city wall of Philippe-Auguste. George Sand lived for a time at No. 3. Rue de l’École de Médecine was once in part Rue des Cordeliers, in part Rue des Boucheries-St-Germain, a name telling its own tale. No less than twenty-two butchers’ shops flourished here. At the outbreak of the Revolution a butcher was president of the famous club des Cordeliers established in the ancient convent chapel (1791-94). The refectory, the church-like structure we see at No. 15, now an anatomy museum, built by Anne of Bretagne in the fifteenth century, is all that remains of the convent buildings dating in part from the early years of the twelfth century, which covered a great part of this district from the days of Louis IX. Many of these buildings were put to secular uses before the outbreak of the Revolution. The cloister stood till 1877, made into a prison, then was razed to make room for the École de Médecine built in part with the ancient cloister stones. The chapel stood on what is now Place de l’École-de-Médecine. The amphitheatre of the School of Surgery at No. 5, an association founded by St. Louis, dates from the end of the seventeenth century on the site of an older structure. Above the cellars at No. 4 stood in olden days the College of Damville. The Faculté de Médecine at No. 12 is on the site of the Collège-Royal de Bourgogne, founded in 1331. The first stone of the present building was laid by Louis XVI. The edifice was enlarged in later days, restored in 1900. The bas-relief on its frontal, sculptured as a figure of Louis XV, was by order of the Commune transformed in 1793 into the woman draped we see there now. Skulls of famous persons, some noted criminals, may be seen at the Museum. Marat lived and died in Rue des Cordeliers. There Charlotte Corday was seized by the enraged mob. Traces of the ancient convent may be seen in the short Rue Antoine-Dubois. Rue Dupuytren lies across what was the convent graveyard. Nos. 7-9 were dependencies of the old convent. No. 7 was later a free school of drawing directed by Rosa Bonheur. Rue Monsieur-le-Prince, so named in 1806, because of the vicinity of the hôtel du Prince de Condé, was in olden days Chemin des Fossés. We see there many characteristic houses. Auguste Comte died at No. 10 in 1857.
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1. Chapter 1 2. CHAPTER I 3. 1784. They were burnt down in 1828 and replaced by the Galerie 4. CHAPTER II 5. CHAPTER III 6. 1790. More than a million bodies are said to have been buried in that 7. 1850. The beautiful portal of the ancient bureau des Marchandes-lingères 8. CHAPTER IV 9. CHAPTER V 10. 1899. Rue d’Uzès crosses the site of the ancient hôtel d’Uzès. Rue de 11. 1823. Four short streets of ancient date cross Rue de la Lune: Rue 12. CHAPTER VI 13. CHAPTER VII 14. 1882. At No. 153 was the eighteenth-century _bureau des 15. CHAPTER VIII 16. CHAPTER IX 17. CHAPTER X 18. CHAPTER XI 19. 1855. The short Rue de la Tâcherie (from _tâche_: task, work) crossing 20. 1320. Its name shortened from _mauvaise buée_, i.e. _mauvaise fumée_, is 21. CHAPTER XII 22. CHAPTER XIII 23. 1802. Here Fouquet and his son, Mme de Chantal, and the Marquis de 24. CHAPTER XIV 25. CHAPTER XV 26. CHAPTER XVI 27. CHAPTER XVII 28. CHAPTER XVIII 29. CHAPTER XIX 30. CHAPTER XX 31. CHAPTER XXI 32. CHAPTER XXII 33. CHAPTER XXIII 34. 25. Sardou in his youth at No. 26. Augustin Thierry lived for ten years 35. CHAPTER XXIV 36. CHAPTER XXV 37. CHAPTER XXVI 38. 1851. Nos. 85, 87, 89, eighteenth century, belonged to a branch of the 39. CHAPTER XXVII 40. CHAPTER XXVIII 41. CHAPTER XXIX 42. CHAPTER XXX 43. CHAPTER XXXI 44. 1860. It was a favourite street for residence in the nineteenth century. 45. CHAPTER XXXII 46. 122. Eugène Sue at No. 55. Comtesse de la Valette at No. 44, a _hôtel_ 47. CHAPTER XXXIII 48. CHAPTER XXXIV 49. CHAPTER XXXV 50. 1898. Marshal Ney lived at No. 12. In Rue de la Tour des Dames a 51. CHAPTER XXXVI 52. CHAPTER XXXVII 53. CHAPTER XXXVIII 54. CHAPTER XXXIX 55. 1852. No. 73 is the Hospice des Vieillards, worked by the Petites 56. CHAPTER XL 57. CHAPTER XLI 58. 1710. That first convent and church were razed in 1797. The Carmelites 59. 1713. Rue de Vanves, leading to what was in olden days the village of 60. CHAPTER XLII 61. CHAPTER XLIII 62. 1879. She had planned filling it with her magnificent collection of 63. CHAPTER XLIV 64. 20. Rue de l’Annonciation began in the early years of the eighteenth 65. CHAPTER XLV 66. 1898. Avenue de Wagram in its course from the Arc de Triomphe to Place 67. CHAPTER XLVI 68. CHAPTER XLVII 69. CHAPTER XLVIII 70. CHAPTER XLIX 71. 1783. This name was changed more than once in subsequent years. After 72. 1850. The novelist Paul de Kock lived at No 8. No. 17 was the abode of 73. CHAPTER L 74. CHAPTER LI 75. 1751. Many names of historic note are associated with the handsome house 76. CHAPTER LII 77. 1718. It was then rebuilt minus its wooden houses. The present structure 78. 1786. Pont Notre-Dame was the “bridge of honour.” Sovereigns coming to

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