NORTHWEST WING OF THE LOUVRE, BUILT BY NAPOLEON I, LOUIS XVIII, AND NAPOLEON III.
work of expiation for the murder of Archbishop Darboy. The city owns the church.
To the tourist whose attention is not confined to the stock “sights” of Paris the city streets offer a wide field of interest. They show the stranger within the walls the neatness of the people and the orderliness which manifests itself in the automatic formation of a queue of would-be passengers on an omnibus or a bateau mouche. They disclose little that looks like slums to the eye of a Londoner or a New Yorker, for dirt and sadness rather than congestion make slums, and the poor Parisian looks clean and cheerful even when a hole in his “stocking” has let all his savings escape.
History lurks at every corner of these streets. It commands attention to the imposing pile of Notre Dame, it piques curiosity by the palpably ancient turrets of the rue Hautefeuille. The non-existent is recalled by the tablet on the site of the house where Coligny was assassinated, by the outline of Philip Augustus’s Louvre traced on the eastern courtyard of the palace, by the name of the street that passes over the mad king’s menagerie at the Hôtel Saint Paul. Étienne Marcel sits his horse beside the City Hall he bought for Paris; Desmoulins mounts his chair in the garden of the Palais Royal to make the passionate speech that wrought the destruction
Architects Who Directed the Building of the Louvre.
| 1. Pierre Lescot and Jean Goujon 2. Chambiges 3. Philibert Delorme and Bullant 4 and 5. Ducerceau 6. Jacques Lemercier |
7 and 8. Louis Levau 9. Perrault 10, 11 and 12. Percier and Fontaine 13 and 14. Visconti and Lefuel |