_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. [Illustration: 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). [Illustration: 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. Place du Châtel _On leaving the_ Grange-aux-Dîmes, _take on the right, at the end of the Rue Saint-Jean, the Rue Couverte leading to the picturesque_ Place du Châtel _seen on the photograph below_. The old feudal well on the left, with its wrought-iron top, is 120 feet deep. Beside it is the Crois-aux-Changes, dating from the fourteenth century, on which the "edicts and ordonnances" were posted up. Beyond the Place may be seen the "+Cæsar's Tower+." [Illustration: PLACE DU CHÂTEL] [Illustration: THE HÔTEL DE LA COQUILLE AND THE RUINS OF ST.-THIBAUT] _Turning to the left on the Place we reach in the north-west corner, the old_ "+Maison-des-Petits Plaids+" where the provost meted out justice. It may be seen in part in the background of the opposite photograph. The curious low roof covers an interesting vaulted passage. The house is built over fine thirteenth century cellars in which the poet and songster Pierre Dupont (1821-1870) composed his "Chanson de la Vigne" (song of the Vine), during a vine-dressers' festival. In the centre of the above view is the old "+Hôtel de la Coquille+," which derives its name from the shell carved above its entrance. The neighbouring ruins are those of the twelfth century +Church of Saint-Thibaut+. _Motorists are advised to send their car to wait for them in the lower part of the Rue Saint-Thibaut at the corner of the Rue Christophe-Opoix, whither they themselves will return after having visited the Cæsar's Tower and Saint-Quiriace._ The beginning of the picturesque Rue Saint-Thibaut is to be seen in the photograph below. _Tourists should walk to the south-east corner of the Place and there take the Rue de l'Ormerie, then immediately on the right, the Rue Pierre-Lebrun._ The house in which this writer lived is situated in a charming little square, opening off the street. [Illustration: RUE SAINT-THIBAUT] [Illustration: CÆSAR'S TOWER AND ST.-QUIRIACE]