Identifier: parisitsstorybyt00okey (find matches)
Title: Paris and its story, by T. Okey; illustrated by Katherine Kimball & O. F. M. Ward
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Okey, Thomas, 1852-1935
Subjects: Art
Publisher: London : J. M. Dent & co. New York, The Macmillan co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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our, was received in Paris with a frenzy ofjoy. The whole city came forth to meet him, flowers werestrewn in his path, the streets were hung with tapestry, TeDeums sung in all the churches, and for seven days andnights the popular enthusiasm expressed itself in dance, insong and joyous revel. It was the first national event inFrance. The Count of Flanders was imprisoned in thenew fortress of the Louvre, where he lay for thirteen years,with ample leisure to meditate on the fate of rebelliousfeudatories. Never after was war waged on King Philip,but he lived in peace. Two vast undertakings make the name of PhilipAugustus memorable in Paris—the beginning of the pavingof the city and the building of its girdle of walls andtowers. One day as Philip stood at the window of his palace, In the ardour of the fight the king found himself surrounded bythe enemys footmen, was unhorsed, and while they were vainly seekingfor a vulnerable spot in his armour some French knights had time to rescuehim.
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St. Ktikn.ne dv Miim and Toi r dk Clovis PARIS UNDER PHILIP AUGUSTUS 63 where he was wont to amuse himself by watching the Seineflow by, some carts rattled along the muddy road beneaththe window and stirred so foul and overpowering an odourthat the king almost fell sick. Next day the provost andthe sheriifs and chief citizens were sent for and ordered toset about paving the city with stone. The work was nothowever completed until the reign of Charles V., a centuryand a half later. It was done well and lasted till the six-teenth century, when it was replaced by the miserablecobbles, known as the pavement of the League. Whetherthe city grew much sweeter is doubtful ; certainly Paris inthe sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was as evil-smellingas ever. Montaigne, in the second half of the sixteenthcentury, complains that the acrid smell of the mud ofParis weakened the affection he bore to that fair city,and Howell writes in 1620, *the city is always dirty,and by perpetual motion the mud

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