The Stranger's Guide to Paris: Containing an Accurate Description of the Palaces, Churches, Public Edifices, Libraries, Museums, Theatres, Etc. To which are Added Directions for Viewing Paris in Six Days, and an Historical and Picturesque Description of the EnvironsFain and Thunot, 1844 - 432 pages |
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Page 94 - by a minister of the Church of England in the chapel or house of any British ambassador or minister residing within the country to the court of which he is accredited,
Page 101 - magnificent and striking. The front is adorned by Ionic pillars, above which, on the centre pavilions, and the piles of building which connect them, appears the Corinthian order, surmounted by an attic story, above which is a balustrade. The two other ranges of building, with the pavilions which terminate them, are ornamented with fluted
Page 324 - Nul ne viendra verser des pleurs. Soyez béni, mon Dieu, vous qui daignez me rendre L'Innocence et son noble
Page 101 - in 1564. She built the centre pavilion in the front of the palace, with the ranges of building immediately adjoining, and the pavilions by which they are terminated. The designs for this part of the edifice were by Philibert
Page 101 - towards the court consists of five pavilions connected together by four ranges of buildings. Almost every order of architecture is employed in the embellishment of this facade. The deviations from the original plan have destroyed the proportions required by the strict rules of art ; nevertheless the architecture, though variously blended, presents at first sight an ensemble which is magnificent and striking. The
Page 28 - two monuments, one to the memory of Sir A. Gordon, and the other to some officers of the German Legion, who fell in the battle.
Page 209 - This is a perfect square of 430 feet, surrounded by 34 houses of uniform structure, having arches on the ground floor, forming a covered gallery which runs round the place. A
Page 128 - the grand avenue is prolonged in the midst of a nursery-ground to the Royal Observatory, by so gentle an ascent, that the difference of elevation between this building and the palace (54 feet) is scarcely perceptible. Between the garden of the Luxembourg and the Observatory is the spot where the unfortunate Marshal Ney was shot, in 1815.
Page 324 - J'apparus un jour et je meurs : Je meurs, et sur ma tombe,