hich are the
presents of several kings and queens. The crown or cluster of diamonds
which glitters on the top, was given by Queen Mary of Medicis. The
shrine is placed behind the choir, upon a fine piece of architecture,
supported by four high pillars, two of marble, and two of jaspis.[9] See
the Ancient Life of St. Genevieve, written by an anonymous author,
eighteen years after her death, of which the best edition is given by F.
Charpentier, a Genevevan regular canon, in octavo, in 1697. It is
interpolated in several editions. Bollandus has added another more
modern life; see also Tillemont, t. 16, p. 621, and notes, ib. p. 802.
Likewise, Gallia Christiana Nova, t. 7, p. 700.

Footnotes:
1. Constant. in vit. S. Germani. Altiss. l. 1, c. 20.
2. _Nonam atque duodecim_. It deserves the attention of clergymen, that
though anciently the canonical hours were punctually observed in the
divine office, SS. Germanus and Lupus deferred None beyond the hour,
that they might recite it in the church, rather than on the road.
The word _duodecima_ used for Vespers, is a clear demonstration that
the canonical hour of Vespers was not five, but six o'clock,--which,
about the _equinox_, was the twelfth hour of the natural day: which
is also proved from the name of the Ferial hymn at Vespers, _Jam ter
quaternis_, &c. See Card. Bona, de div. Psalmodia, &c.
3. Apud Bolland.
4. See Piganiol, Descrip. de Paris, t. 8, v. Nanterre.
5. Paris was called by the Romans the castle of the Parisians, being by
its situation one of the strongest fortresses in Gaul; for at that
time it was confined to the island of the river Seine, now called
the Isle _du Palais_, and the _City_: though the limits of the city
are now extended somewhat beyond that island, it is the smallest
part of the town. This isle was only accessible over two wooden
bridges, each of which was defended by a castle, which were
afterwards called the _Great_ and _Little_ Chatelet. (See Lobineau.
Hist. de la Ville de Paris, t. l, l. 1.) The greatest part of the
neighboring country was covered with thick woods. The Roman
governors built a palace without the island, (now in Rue de
l'Harpe,) which Julian, the Apostate, while he commanded in Gaul,
exceedingly embellished, furnished with water by a curious aqueduct,
and, for the security of his own person, contrived a subterraneous
passage from the pal