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Historic Paris by Jetta Sophia Wolff

CHAPTER XXXIII

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PARC MONCEAU We have already referred to Avenue Wagram. Modern buildings stretch along the whole course of the other eleven avenues branching from Place de l’Étoile. Avenue Hoche leads us to Parc Monceau, laid out on lands belonging in past days to the Manor of Clichy, sold to the prince d’Orléans in 1778, arranged as a smart _jardin anglais_ for Philippe-Égalité in 1785, the property of the nation in 1794, restored to the Orléans by Louis XVIII, bought by the State in 1852, given to the city authorities in 1870. The Renaissance arcade is a relic of the ancient hôtel de Ville, burnt down in 1871. The oval _bassin_, called “la Naumachie,” with its Corinthian columns, came from an old church at St-Denis, Notre-Dame de la Rotonde, built as the burial-place of the Valois, razed in 1814. Avenue Friedland was opened in 1719, across the site of a famous eighteenth-century public garden and several demolished _hôtels_, and lengthened to its present extent some fifty years later. Avenue Marceau was of yore Avenue Joséphine. Rue de Monceau, opened in 1801, lies along the line of the old road to the vanished village of Monceau or Musseau. Rue du Rocher, along the course of a Roman road, has gone by different names in its different parts. Its upper end, waste ground until well into the nineteenth century, at the close of the eighteenth century was a Revolutionists’ meeting-place, and there in the tragic months of 1794 many _guillotinés_ were buried, among them the two Robespierres. In later years a dancing saloon was set up on the spot. It was a district of windmills. The Moulin de la Marmite, Moulin Boute-à-Feu, Moulin-des-Prés, stood on the high ground above Gare St-Lazare until a century ago. Few vestiges of the past remain. Rue de Laborde was known in 1788 as Rue des Grésillons, i.e. Flour Street (_grésillons_, the flour in its third stage of grinding). Then it became Chemin des Porcherons, and the district was known as that of la Petite-Pologne, a reference to the habitation there of the duc d’Anjou, who was King of Poland. In the courtyard of No. 4 we find an ancient boundary-stone, once in Rue de l’Arcade, where it marked the bounds of the city under Louis XV. Rue de la Pépinière, its name and that of the barracks there so well known of late to British soldiers, recording the site of the royal nursery grounds of a past age, was marked out as early as 1555, but opened only in 1782. The barracks, first built in 1763 for the Gardes Françaises, was rebuilt under Napoléon III. All other streets in the neighbourhood are modern.
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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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