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Oh, how I cried." "Why did it make you sad?" "Oh, I don't know.... But I'm learning stenography.... But here we are!" The great bulk of the Pantheon stood up dimly through the rain beside them. In front the tower of St. Etienne-du-Mont was just visible. The rain roared about them. "Oh, how wet I am!" said Jeanne.
Such at least is the official story; and these relics, now once more enclosed in a costly shrine, still attract thousands of votaries to the chapel of the saint in St. Etienne-du-Mont. The Pantheon, standing in front of the original church, is now a secular burial-place for the great men of France. The remains of Ste. Genevieve still repose at St. Etienne.
He walked with long strides through the streets of the Rive Gauche full of people going home from work, towards the little wine shop on the Quai de la Tournelle. It was a Paris Sunday morning. Old women in black shawls were going into the church of St. Etienne-du-Mont. Each time the leather doors opened it let a little whiff of incense out into the smoky morning air.
Etienne-du-Mont; it is an odd mixture of styles of architecture, a tower and circular turret which are detached from the church, are supposed to be of the date 1222; a staircase of most singular construction and of peculiar lightness is the first object which strikes the spectator on entering; there is a great deal of richness and scroll work, with some Arabic, Greek and Gothic styles intermingled.
It is characteristic of the Parisians that on the very same spot the throne of Louis Philippe was publicly burned, February 24, 1848. The model for the intended elephant existed here till the middle of the reign of Louis Philippe, and is depicted by Victor Hugo as the lodging of "Le petit Gavroche." The Pantheon and St. Etienne-Du-Mont By Grant Allen The medieval church of Ste.
Etienne-du-Mont, which we now proceed to visit. Stand in the left-hand corner of the Place to examine the facade. The church was begun as late Gothic; but before it was finished, the Renaissance style had come into fashion, and the architects accordingly jumbled the two in the most charming manner. The incongruity here only adds to the beauty.
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