ulevard to the
Rue des Carmes, whose name recalls the Carmelite monastery founded by
St. Louis, and at No. 15 find the site of the old Italian College
(College des Lombards). Much of this "hostel of the poor Italian
scholars of the charity of Our Lady," as rebuilt by two Irish priests,
Michael Kelly and Patrick Moggin, still exists, including the chapel,
and is partly occupied by a Catholic Workmen's Club It gave shelter
to forty missionary priests and an equal number of poor Irish
scholars, and the earliest disciples of Loyola found temporary shelter
there. Some idea of the vast extent of the ancient foundation may be
gained by walking round to 34 Rue de la Montagne Ste. Genevieve on the
other side of the Marche where the principal portal may be seen. We
return to the Place Maubert, which we recross, and descend direct
before us to the Rue de la Bucherie on our L. This street was the
centre of the medical students, and from 1369 to the times of Louis
XIV. the Faculty of Medicine held its lectures and demonstrations
there. At No. 13 still remains the old anatomical and surgical theatre
of the Faculty erected in 1617, which has been acquired by the
Municipality, but had a neglected, almost ruined aspect when we last
passed (Feb. 1906).[186] We continue along this street and return to
the Place du Petit Pont.

[Footnote 184: The annexe, the inscription and the Rue du Petit
Pont--all have disappeared (1911).]

[Footnote 185: _Purgatorio_, XI. 81.]

[Illustration: ST. SEVERIN.]

[Illustration: OLD ACADEMY OF MEDICINE.]

SECTION III

_Ecole des Beaux Arts_[187]--_St. Germain des Pres_--_Cour du
Dragon_--_St. Sulpice_--_The Luxembourg_--_The Odeon_--_The
Cordeliers_--_The Surgeons' Guild_--_The Musee Cluny_[188]--_The
Sorbonne_[189]--_The Pantheon_[190]--_St. Etienne du Mont_--_Tour
Clovis_--_Wall of Philip Augustus_--_Roman Amphitheatre_

[Footnote 186: Now demolished (1911).]

[Footnote 187: Open Sundays, 10-4.]

[Footnote 188: Open 11-4 or 5, closed Mondays and Chief Festivals.]

[Footnote 189: May be visited Thursdays and Sundays, 11-4. Apply
Concierge, 7 Rue des Ecoles.]

[Footnote 190: Open 10-4 or 5, closed Mondays and Festivals.]

We cross to the S. bank of the Seine by the Pont du Carrousel (or des
Saints Peres). Opposite on the Quai Malaquais stands the Ecole des
Beaux Arts (on the site of the old Convent of the Petits Augustins
where Lenoir organised his museum), founded by the Convention an