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Page 4 - Sebastopol, du Palais, and St-Michel. THE GRANDS BOULEVARDS FROM THE PLACE DE LA CONCORDE TO THE PLACE DE LA BASTILLE. From the *Place de la Concorde, one of the largest and most beautiful squares in the world, the Rue Royale leads N. to the ' classic ' church of the Madeleine (1842), in the Place...
Page xv - The executive is exercised by the President of the Republic elected for a term of five years, by indirect vote, the people nominating, by ballot, delegates who appoint the President. A retiring President is not re-eligible. In legislation the President has a modified veto ; a bill returned to the chambers with the President's objections may, by a twothirds vote of the members present...
Page 76 - ... Paradise. At the top God the Father is represented receiving Abraham. These and the two pictures next to them on the south wall are in the best state of preservation. On the twenty-fifth field the Virgin appears with the Child between two angels crushing the head of the serpent. Below as types are David with the head of Goliath, and Judith with the head of Holofernes. The latter sits solemnly on a throne, surrounded by noble female figures. The scene in the twenty-sixth field is also a connected...
Page 87 - Its Castle, rising on the very edge of a precipice 200 ft. high, completes the walled circuit, with large flanking towers clad with ivy. Our Henry II. resided in this castle, and here received the Nuncio of the Pope, sent to reconcile him with Becket. In 1574...
Page 108 - Torigny, became a celebrated seat of learning. Henry I. of England here effectually resisted his two elder brothers. Here Henry II., in 1166, kept his court and received the homage of the turbulent Bretons, whom he had subdued with a strong arm.
Page 4 - Champs-Elysees, Rue de Rivoli, Rue St-Antoine, and Rue du Faubourg-St-Antoine, and cutting Paris into two approximately equal parts. To the N. of this line the Grands Boulevards form an irregular semicircle from the Place de la Concorde to the Place de la Bastille, while to the S. a smaller arc is described by the Boulevard Henri- IV and the Boulevard St-Germain.
Page 7 - Innocents (1550). Just E. of the Halles the broad Boul. de Sebastopol runs N. and S., and in the region to the E. are the Imprimerie...
Page 100 - Estouteville. It was taken from the last by Henry V. after the battle of Agincourt, and bestowed on his favourite William de la Pole, Earl of Suffolk, who parted with it to ransom himself from the hands of the French. In the adjoining forest, on the hill des Grosses Roches, are three Druidical monuments of the kind called
Page 88 - But a much more interesting object to the student of ecclesiastical architecture is to be found at about a league hence, viz. the ch. of...