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They made him realise the emptiness of his stomach, he said; and, leaving the "two animals" to feast on the odour of the truffles the most penetrating odour to be found in all the neighbourhood he went off again to the corn market by way of the Rue Oblin, studying on his road the old women who sold green-stuff in the doorways and the displays of cheap pottery spread out on the foot-pavements.
It is the invention of Father Pingre, who was a regular canon of St. Genevieve, and member of the ci-devant Academy of Sciences. While we are in this quarter, let us avail ourselves of the moment; and, proceeding from the Halle au Ble along the Rue Oblin, examine the
The west front of the church faces the Rue Oblin, which we will take, as it leads to the Halle au Blé, a fine extensive circular building, with a noble dome, it is built on the site of the Hôtel de Soissons, erected for Catherine de Médicis, in 1572, which in 1748 was demolished, and the present Halle constructed in 1763; the roof has a round skylight, 31 feet in diameter, and from the system adopted in its formation, it is considered by connaiseurs a chef d'oeuvre in the art of building.
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