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"The island of the City," as Sauval says, who, in spite of his confused medley, sometimes has such happy turns of expression, "the island of the city is made like a great ship, stuck in the mud and run aground in the current, near the centre of the Seine." We have just explained that, in the fifteenth century, this ship was anchored to the two banks of the river by five bridges.
He would remember that it was the color with which the hangman smeared "accursed" edifices; he would recall the Hotel du Petit-Bourbon, all smeared thus, on account of the constable's treason. "Yellow, after all, of so good a quality," said Sauval, "and so well recommended, that more than a century has not yet caused it to lose its color."
How plainly it is to be seen that in former days there were nothing but convents here! In this neighborhood! Du Breul and Sauval give a list of them, and so does the Abbe Lebeuf.
These were the Rue Babille, the Rue Sauval, the Rue des Deux Ecus, and the Rue de Viarmes, this last pallid from its proximity to the millers' stores, and at four o'clock lively by reason of the corn exchange held there. It was generally at this point that they started on their round.
After offering her prayer, she was conducted by the rue de la Calandre to the palace, where the royal supper was served in the great hall. She there appeared, seated at the middle of the marble table, beneath a velvet dais strewn with golden fleur-de-lis." We may here put an end to one of those popular beliefs which are repeated in many writers from Sauval down.
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