GRANGE-AUX-DÎMES (TITHES)
At the end of the street on the left is the "Grange-aux-Dîmes" (view opposite). An old military building, rebuilt before 1176, it became in turn a market and then an inn. It was afterwards a store-house for the tithes of the harvest, and it is to this last use that it owes its present name.
MUSEUM IN THE GRANGE-AUX-DÎMES
To visit it, ask for the key from the guardian who lives opposite, in the house at the corner of the Rue Saint-Jean and the Rue Couverte. There is an archæological museum on the ground floor (photograph on p. [138]).
CRYPT OF THE GRANGE-AUX-DÎMES
We descend into the crypt, which resembles the ground floor in disposition (view opposite), by a stairway whose entrance is hidden by a sort of wooden trap-door. A great many of the houses in the upper town have somewhat similar basements or cellars, with subterranean passages giving access to the open country, for use in times of danger.
The upper hall, which is of no especial interest, is reached by an outer stair, visible on the right of the façade.