Galignani's new [afterw.] illustrated Paris guide (1827, 39, 44), 53-55, 60, 63, 64, 79-94 |
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Galignani's new [afterw.] illustrated Paris guide (1827, 39, 44), 53-55, 60 ... Galignani A. and W. Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1879 |
Galignani's new [afterw.] illustrated Paris guide (1827, 39, 44), 53-55, 60 ... Galignani A. and W. Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1879 |
Galignani's new [afterw.] illustrated Paris guide (1827, 39, 44), 53-55, 60 ... Galignani A. and W. Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1853 |
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Side 234 - From the introduction of Christianity into France to the time of St. Louis, the few books existing in the kingdom belonged to the numerous convents which had been successively established, and were confined to copies of the Bible, treatises of the fathers, canons, missals, and a few Greek and Latin authors. St. Louis caused copies to be made of all these manuscripts, and had them arranged in a room attached to the Sainte Chapelle. This collection the king bequeathed to several monasteries. From St....
Side 192 - Egyptian dynasty, better known in history as the great Sesostris. These two monoliths were given by Mehemet Ali, Viceroy of Egypt, to the French government, in consideration of the advantages conferred by France on Egypt in aiding to form the arsenal and naval establishment of Alexandria...
Side 258 - Chatelet, the court of justice and prison of Paris during the middle ages. The tribunal was suppressed at the revolution of 1789, and the building destroyed in 1802. The present square presents three sides of 220 feet, and, in the middle, contains a fountain erected in 1808 after the designs 'of M. Bralle, the first monument erected in commemoration of the victories of the Republic and the Empire. This fountain...
Side 234 - ... volumes. They were deposited in a tower of the Louvre, called la Tour de la Librairie, and consisted of illuminated missals and other religious works, legends of miracles, lives of saints, and treatises upon astrology, geomancy, and palmistry. To afford literary persons an opportunity at all times of consulting this library, a silver lamp was kept constantly burning. This collection was partly dispersed under Charles VÍ.
Side 553 - Brunei's gauge being 7, and the narrowest admitted hitherto 3}'.), and the sharpest curves have been purposely introduced to give the system a fair trial. The train describes at each terminus a curve of 82 feet radius; the smallest radius on the line is 98 feet, and the largest 279 feet, results hitherto deemed impossible. The total length of the railway is 6 miles and a half, which are performed in 25 minutes, and might be in to.
Side 465 - English in circumference at 6 feet from the ground. At the top of the hill the visitor will find a pavilion, entirely of cast bronze, with seats, from which a view extends over the garden, the greater part of Paris, and the distant landscape in the directions of Montmartre, Vincennes, and Sceaux.
Side 531 - But many centuries before it was a favourite place of worship, frequented by the Druids and other pagan priests, and the first Christians of France. From that time it was respected as a place of religious devotion ; several hermits inhabited its caverns, and pilgrimages used to be made to it. At the revolution of 1789 the custom ceased; but at the Restoration pilgrimages again came into vogue, and a fraternity of Trappists settled there. At the revolution of...
Side 422 - The masonry of this hall is composed of alternate rows of squared stones and bricks, covered in some places with a coat of stucco four or five inches thick. The thickness of the walls is surprising. From this hall, a small room, giving access to the cellars, (which cannot be visited without a guide, who receives a small fee) leads to the tepidarinm, or chamber for warm baths, now entirely divested of its vaulted roof.
Side 239 - ... of the best Italian engravers. Jean Delorme, physician to the Queen, having inherited the collection of the abbot, added it to another collection formed by the Abbe de Merolles, both of which, being purchased by Colbert in 1667, were placed in the rue Richelieu. The abbe's collection comprised 440 volumes, containing about 125,000 prints, and to this were afterwards added other...
Side 195 - Cours la /feme, which it still retains. It extends along the banks of the Seine, from which it is separated by the high road leading to Versailles. On the other side it was divided by ditches from a plain, with which a communication was formed by a small stone bridge. In...