WOOD-PANELLING, SAINT-QUIRIACE
HOUSE IN THE ROMAN STYLE
On leaving Saint-Quiriace, take on the right the Rue des Beaux-Arts leading into the Rue du Palais.
Take a few steps to the left in order to glance at a house in the Roman style, dating from the tenth century (photograph opposite). The tourist will then retrace his steps in the direction of the College installed in the ancient palace of the Counts of Champagne; then descend the Rue du Collège, in which, on the right, are the ruins of St. Peter's Church, built in the thirteenth century and destroyed during the Revolution.
At the head of the flight of steps leading to the lower town, beside St. Peter's, was the "Hôtel des Monnaies" (the Mint), which was founded by Charlemagne. It was there that the "sous Provinois," so well known in the Middle Ages, were struck (see p. [129]).
Descend St. Peter's steps, and the Rue des Petits-Lions, which lead to the Rue des Capucins. On entering the latter, one perceives the old "Hôtel de la Croix d'Or," dating from the thirteenth century (photograph below); whilst a little to the right, on the opposite side of the street, is the "Hôtel Vauluisant," also of the thirteenth century. Its front, pierced by four fine mullioned windows with trefoil tracery, may be seen in the photograph below and in that on p. [146].
Retracing our steps we rejoin the Rue St. Thibaut by way of the Rue Christophe Opoix, a continuation of the Rue des Capucins. Here motors coming directly from the Place du Châtel by the Rue Saint-Thibaut may wait.