greater range in the chief public edifices, such as the Hotel de
Ville, the Sorbonne, the Pantheon and the Ecole de Medecine. We enter
the Luxembourg Gardens by the gate R. of the museum, turn L., pass the
facade of the palace and opposite its E. wing discover the charming
old Medici Fountain. After strolling about the delightful gardens,
unhappily by the erection of the Observatory in 1672 reduced by more
than one-third of their former extent, we leave by the gate N. of the
Medici Fountain which gives on the Rue Vaugirard opposite the Odeon
Theatre, formerly the _Theatre de la Nation_, where the _Comedie
Francaise_ performed for a few years after 1781. The Paris booksellers
still have their stalls inside the colonnade even as they used to do
in the great Salle of the Palais de Justice.

[Footnote 191: Now suppressed and the building taken over by the State
(1911).]

[Illustration: COUR DU DRAGON.]

Descending (R. of the Odeon) the Rues Corneille, Casimir Delavigne and
Antoine Dubois, we strike the Rue de l'Ecole de Medecine where (No. 15
to R.) will be seen the Refectory, all that remains of the great
Franciscan monastery, and now used as a pathological museum (Musee
Dupuytren), for medical students. In this hall was laid the body of
Marat after his assassination by Charlotte Corday, and the famous club
of the Cordeliers, where the gentler rhetoric of Camille Desmoulins
vied with the thunderous declamation of Danton to stir republican
fervour, met in the Hall of Theology. We pass to No. 5, where are some
remains of the old School of Surgery or Guild of SS. Cosmas and
Damian, founded by St. Louis; adjacent stood the church of St. Cosmas,
famous for the fiery zeal of its cure during the times of the League.
The surgeons of the Guild being compelled by their charter to give
professional aid to the poor every Monday, the churchwardens obtained
a papal Bull authorising them to erect in their church a suitable
consulting-room for the use of the patients. In 1694 the surgeons
built an anatomical theatre which, enlarged in 1710, is now used as an
art school. We continue our pilgrimage and, crossing the Boulevard St.
Michel to the Rue des Ecoles, descend on our L. the Rue de la Sorbonne
and find the entrance to the beautiful late Gothic palace built for
the abbots of Cluny in 1490.

[Illustration: TOWER AND COURTYARD OF HOTEL CLUNY.]

The delightful old mansion, (p. 159) now the Musee de Cluny, is
crowded with a selecti