[141] Among the privileges granted to England was the monopoly of supplying the Spanish Colonies with negro slaves.
[142] Levau’s south façade was not completely hidden by Perrault’s screen, for the roofs of the end and central pavilions emerged from behind it until they were destroyed by Gabriel in 1755.
[143] Jules Hardouin, the younger Mansard, was a nephew and pupil of François Mansard, who assumed his uncle’s name. The latter was the inventor of the Mansard roof.
[144] The sixth part of a sou.
[145] Twelve alone were added to the St. Honoré quarter by levelling the Hill of St. Roch and clearing away accumulated rubbish.
[146] It extended as far as the entrance to the quadrangle opposite the Pont des Arts. A double line of trees, north and south, enclosed a Renaissance garden of elaborate design, and a charming bosquet, or wood, filled the eastern extremity.
[147] “By order of the king, God is forbidden to work miracles in this place.”
[148] In 1753 between 20th January and 20th February two hundred persons died of want (misère) in the Faubourg St. Antoine.
[149] Some conception of the insanitary condition of the court may be formed by the fact that fifty persons were struck down there by this loathsome disease during the king’s illness.
[150] “I have seen the Louvre and its huge enclosure, a vast palace which for two hundred years is always being finished and always begun. Two workmen, lazy hodmen, speed very slowly those rich buildings, and are paid when they are thought of.”