Identifier: parisenviro00karl (find matches)
Title: Paris and environs, with routes from London to Paris : handbook for travellers
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Karl Baedeker (Firm)
Subjects:
Publisher: Leipzig, K. Baedeker
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
I —«•eJfrf»>^^^^-S! H i 1 a i ^^K
Text Appearing After Image:
Wagner & Debes Leipzig to Paris. ROUEN. 37.Route. 453 The second side-street on the right leads to the Gothic church of St-Patrice (PI. C. 2; 16th cent.), containing fine stained glass dating from 1538-1625. — On the E. side of the Jardin Solferino (PI. a 2), to the left of the Rue Jeanne-d'Arc, is the Musee (p. 455). The **Palais de Justice (PI. 0. D, 2, 3), in the Rue aux Juifs, is one of the finest existing civil buildings in the flamboyant style. It was erected in the 15th-16th cent, for the Echiquier de Nor-mandie, the supreme tribunal (Parlement) of the province. The central part of the edifice and the projecting wings form an entrance-court. The left wing is ancient, with the exception of the staircase at the angle (1903*, and was used as a model for the rebuilding of the right wing in 1844-52; it contains the Salle des Procureurs or des Pas-Perdus, erected in 1499, a spacious hall with a high-pitched waggon-roof and the ancient judicial bench erected here in 1508. The assize

Note About Images