Picturesque old quays surround the islands on the Seine. Quai de l’Horloge, overlooked by the venerable clock-tower of the Palais de Justice (_see_ p. 50), went in past days by the name Quai des Morfondus, the quay of people chilled by cold river mists and blasting winds. When opticians made that river-bank their special quarter, it became Quai des Lunettes. Lesage, author of _Gil Blas_, lived here in 1715, at the Soleil d’Or. No. 41, where dwelt the engraver Philipon, Mme Roland’s father, is known as the house of Madame Roland, for it was the home of her girlhood. No. 17 dates from Louis XIII. Quai des Orfèvres, the goldsmith’s quay, dating from the end of the sixteenth and first years of the seventeenth centuries, lost its most ancient, most picturesque structures by the enlarging of the Palais de Justice in recent years. In ancient days a Roman wall passed here. At No. 20 of the Rue de Harlay, opening out of it, we see part of an ancient archway. At No. 2 a Louis XIII house. Nos. 52-54 on the _quai_ date from 1603, the latter once the firm of jewellers implicated in the _affaire du collier_. At No. 58 lived Strass, the inventor of the simili-diamonds. Quai de la Cité was built in 1785, on the site of the ancient _port-aux-œufs_, remains of which were unearthed in making the metropolitan railway, a few years ago. Along these banks we see the Paris bird shops; the Marché-aux-Oiseaux is held here. And close by is the Marché-aux-Fleurs. Merovingian remains were found beneath the surface on this part of the quay in 1906. Thick, strong walls believed to have been built by Dagobert, inscriptions, capitals, tombstones--the remains of oldest Paris. Quai de l’Archevêché records the existence there of the archbishop’s palace built in 1697 by Cardinal de Noailles, pillaged and razed to the ground in 1831. The sacristy and presbytery we see there now are modern. This is the quay of the Paris Morgue, the Dead-house, brought here in 1864 from the Marché-Neuf, which had been its site since 1804, when it was removed from le Grand Châtelet. For years past we have been told it is “soon” to be again removed, taken to a remoter corner of the city. The Square de l’Archevêché, laid out in 1837, was in olden days a stretch of waste land known as the “Motte aux Papelards,” the playground of the Cathedral Staff. Boileau’s Paris home was here in a street long swept away. His country-house, as we know, was at Auteuil (_see_ p. 275). In 1870 the square was turned for the time into an artillery ground. Quai de Bourbon on the Île St. Louis dates from 1614. Every house along its line is interesting, of seventeenth-century date for the most part. At No. 3, we see a shop of the days and style Louis XV. Nos. 13-15, hôtel de Charron, where in modern times Meissonnier had his studio. We see fine doors and doorways, courts, staircases, balustrades, at every house. No. 29 was the home of Roualle de Boisgelon. Philippe de Champaigne lived for a time at No. 45.