NOOKS AND CORNERS OF OLD PARIS [Illustration: THE RUE DU CHAUME IN 1866 (TO-DAY, THE RUE DES ARCHIVES) SOUBISE MANSION--CLISSON TOWER _Drawing by A. Maignan_] NOOKS & CORNERS OF OLD PARIS _by_ GEORGES CAIN CURATOR OF THE CARNAVALET MUSEUM AND OF THE HISTORIC COLLECTIONS OF THE CITY OF PARIS _With a Preface by_ VICTORIEN SARDOU WITH OVER A HUNDRED ILLUSTRATIONS LONDON E. GRANT RICHARDS 1907 _The Translation has been made by_ FREDERICK LAWTON, M.A. DEDICATED TO A. G. LENÔTRE IN TOKEN OF MOST SINCERE AFFECTION G. C. _December_ 1905. LIST OF ENGRAVINGS 1. The Rue du Chaume in 1866 (to-day, the Rue des Archives) _Frontispiece_ 2. The Place de la Bastille and the Elephant xvii 3. Demolition of the Rue Sainte-Hyacinthe-Saint-Michel, opposite to the Rue Soufflot xxiii 4. The Town Hall in 1838 xxvii 5. The Pont-Neuf about 1850 xxxi 6. The Louvre about 1785 xxxv 7. The Courtyard of the Carrousel and the Museums about 1848 xxxix 8. The Garden of the Palais Royal in 1791 xliii 9. The Place de la Concorde xlvii 10. Patrol Road leading from the Barrier of the Etoile in 1854 (to-day the Avenue de Wagram) liii 11. The Carnavalet Museum lix 12. The Pont-Royal, the Tuileries, and the Louvre (eighteenth century) lxiii 13. View of the Pont-Neuf, taken from an oval window in the Colonnade of the Louvre 67 14. Workshops and Foundations of the City Barracks in 1864-1865 71 15. View of Notre-Dame 75 16. The "Petit-Pont" 79 17. The Old Prefecture of Police (formerly Jerusalem Street) 81 18. The Sainte-Chapelle in 1875 83 19. Opening up of the space in front of the Palais de Justice 85 20. The Cour des Filles in the Conciergerie 89 21. The Triumph of Marat 93 22. The Dauphine Square in 1780 97 23. The Pont Marie in 1886 103 24. The Isle of Saint-Louis 107 25. The College of Louis-le-Grand 111 26. The Inner Courtyard of the École Polytechnique 113 27. The Rue Clovis in 1867 115 28. The Rue de la Montagne-Sainte-Geneviève in 1866 119 29.