The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-11-13
ADDITIONAL FROM EUROPE.
OF the Municipal Limits OF
Paris.
THE WALLS OF THE OLD CITY.
from the london Building News Senf DC

Extension OF the Municipal Limits OF
Paris.
THE WALLS OF THE OLD CITY.
from the London Building News Sept 26l
The end Of the present year is to the limits Of Paris
again extended and the capital of France considerably
augmented both area and population The old octro
walls to be leveed down. and all the districts lying
between them and the line Of Notifications are to be united
with the city under one municipal government AT the
present time then, II will be both interesting opposite
TO glance backwards at the successive stages the growth
OF Paris and at the gradual extension given to its area,
which we are enabled TO do by the opportune pubca
ton of distinguished French archeoogist-M Leon
Michel Sauval called the Paris Of 900 years ago vessel
sunk IN the Seine and stranded in stream (The city
ii may be remarked are ship) At the period referred
to the capital confined to the Isle de la Cite whereon
stands Noe Dame, and its limits were the waters of the
two encircng of the Seine. What is appropriately
enough called the city island does not represent the ancient
area since it was much smaller being composed of three
islands united into one. The additions the lie des
CorbeaIx and Hot du Passeur aux Vaches on which
the space wbereon stands the statue of Henri w. The
old cy-nothng but village of barbarans and refuge
of savageswas designated Lore.orehezi, the dwelling
amid the waters Its inhabitants boatmen, fishers,
and wanderers from other districts. Its of com
municaton with either bank clumsy bridge, com
posed of the trunks Of trees roughly formed kind
OF scalold, easily destroyed by inundaton when
an enemy attempted an invasion When the Roman
egons made their appearance to subdue those who
fused to accept their yoke they met with determined
sstance. The inhabitants Of Luecea softer form of the
original appeation-were assoh then they to-day
to receive a master.
is not probable that when they had acquired posses.
sion of the island the Romans fortified by surround
ing wall They may have deemed the watery sui-
Gent Perhaps they erected wooden towers command
the bridges but their existence extremely probemat-
CAL and estabe authority The existence
of encrclng walls to oec the city can only be
tanned with any degree Of certainty towards the end of the
fourth or beginning of the fifth century under the kings Of
the Merovingan dynasty The charter of the foundation
of the church of ST. Vincent and Sainte Crox-actuay
Saint German DIES Pres-proves the existence this fort
hcaton Chdeber declares in the document that he had
undertaken to build church in Paris prope nsuro Girl
td and that he bestowed upon the fabric the mills stu
aed between the gate of the city and the tower
tndints inter poTdm ctritds ct turin poiis In 6l5,
Bertrand Bishop Of Mans gave the church of this town
house built by Eusebus, situated ira uros cirita,is
Pdrfo7 which he bad received in gift from the King
After such evidence the existence OF enclosing and even
fortified walls can longer be doubted Moreover por-
ton Of the wall was brought to g just thirty years ago,
that II was built by the vanqushers of the Romans
With the invasions of the Franks, Christianity esta
blished in Gaul. During period religious establish
ments favored the development Of the capital The
priests prayed for the grant OF unoccuped lands within
the city walls and so obtained from the pety OF the kings
the foundation of several religious edces Saint Denis
de la Charte within the city, at the southern exremi
ty Of the bridge of Notre Dame. In $50 lit ransomed
itself from page by the Mortimer. Saint Catherine,
which subsequently became Saint Symporien, stood
beside Saint Denis de la Charte The oratory
Of Saint Martial and Its dependencies occupied
the site of the present streets de la Barrerie de
la Calandrie Aux Feres, and de Ia vielle Drapere 1t
given to Elgius Elo goldsmith to Dagobert who
erected thereon convent Tor 800 virgins. Saint Chris
ophe existed in the seventh century and perhaps earlier
SAINT Jean de la Rond occupied Ehe present of Nore
Dame The palace Of the kings Of the first race was
built on the ground where stands the Paais de Jus
The clergy when there was no more land in the city
be given away cast their eyes upon the surrounding
ncghoorhood and petoned grants of lands on both
banks wherein they erected churches that soon changed
into abbeys possessing nanora! rights round which Pa
risians came 70 dwell, glad 70 escape from the
peor!ed city. The Cesar had previously built the
Palace of the Thermes, outside ;Tutece whose ad.
Bouevar sebaspo The ocers Of the 'f eg hsw
and the citizens Of Rome turned colonists, had
erected their dwellings. on either bank in the
country in the woods and the marshes The kings
compelled afterwards TO buy back and very dearly
the grants exorted from their piety The abbeys aud
their dependent boroughs grew into ef and subsequent
y struggled vigorously against the powers Of the crown
and would not consent to incorporation with the city until
after most obstinate resistance.
On the left bank the basica of the Apostles Saint Peter
and Saint Paul founded in sos by Clovis and Cotda
subsequently became the Abbey Sante Genevieve The
basica OF SAINT Vincent and Saint Croix which became
aterward the church and abbey of Saint German des
Pres, established by Chaebert. 542 and in 55S he
WIN w ns e s 81 or ana an belonging
Gent that the date Of its origin is unknown but existed
in the seventh century will of 700, BIZ which Ermine
thrade a lady of Paris bequeathed legacy Saint
Etnne des Ores Of an cnameed gold ring, worth four
sous proves the existence of this church them which
afterwards became a collegiate one The date Of the
foundaton Saint Beno and Notre Dame des Champs
lost in the night of ages On Mount Ceard now cor
rupted into Moufietard, where Saint Marcel Bishop Of
Paris was buried under the last Merovngan or ear
lier Captain Kings the church OF Saint Marcel Such
were the ancient churches the left bank, which laid the
foundation the future faubourgsSaut Victor Saint
German and Saint Marcel
On the right bank were established fewer religious ed
fees, and greater number Of secular structures The
town began TO be already formed The churches were
Saint German, founded by Chideric which, under the
second became St German lie Rond because of ts
circular form: Saint Paul. oratory, founded by Saint
Eoi saint Laurent where IS Saint Lazare, and which
later became subjected 10 the powerful Abbey Of Saint
Martin des Champs simple basilca prior TO the iuva-
sion OF the Northmen and Saint Pierre or Saint Merry
AT this time the borough did not exist. few houses
along the Seine formed the nucleus Of the town.
onder the second dynasty the nvasions OF the North
men taught the Parsians and the clergy the danger they
incurred by living III the open city and Qualifications
The abbeys became defensvey formed. The aity built
their dwellings under the lofty walls of ecclesiastical
abodes; ready to seek shelter within them at the rst
alarm, and 70 defend them at the FIRST assault II was
thus the borouehs were formed This nerch of
wees between clerks and lay transformed into
dominion by the first and servude by the last The
bots became lords and the ay who sought their protec-
ton vassas The count bishop aobots OF Paris exer-
ced sovereign authority in their respective ies, and
over the villages that had been conceded to them They
had palace, court, officers and soldiers like the King
and leuGality arose .
The Parisians who had not assembled their dwellings
round the abbeys the Gens free men who had fixed
their abodes in front Of Paris the right bank were nu
neros and required to be protected from nyasons They
had the more want Of this were mostly
ihey hid al the commercial wealth Of the town their
hands from the trade on the river yet no documentary
evidence afforded that these were taken into con
sderaon until the reign Of Louis le Gros without the in
habtants Of the right bank into the CITY, whose walls
strengthened unaer Fades, Count Of Paris, placed their
lives, not their riches in sccurt The second wall nf
farb was pun by LOUIS VI, the Fat not only
to protect the city against foreign nvasons but also 10 Dro
ec the King against his vasal who had become
mldabe than even the enemy The information relative 10
ts construction IS very uncertain The wooden tower AT
the end Of the bridge on the north bank was replaced by
asrong fortress Grand Chateet and tho tower al Tho
end Of the bridge on the other bank by the Petit Caaet
At this epoch besides the important constrrcons within
the city-Notre Dame, SAINT German Tevenx saint
sarhelemy, and saint Landr-Paris could count as be
longing 10 II Saint eufroi the Grand Cha,eet ante
Opportune, saint Merry and numbers houses which oc
cuped the spaces between the churches.
On the other bank thanks to Pierre lie Maneeur Adam,
du Petit Pont Michael dc Corbeil Pierre le Chantro cn
laime de Champcaux, and Abelard the UNIVERSITY com
pretended considerable number Of scholars and Tho
neghborhood of the Palace of the Thermes was
with colleges and dwellings to accommodate tho vouth of
different nations The Notifications built ~ Louis 10 eros
TO protect the town started the left bank from
Saint German de Auxerois the vail enclosed tho bitches
which surrounded the church. and proceeded nv the Pe
Betgo to the Place du Ceyaer du Guet Arrived nj Tho
Rue Saint Denis. had an opening In front of tho Grand
Chatelet which called the Guchcr gate afar tho
money changer Gucheri, who by strange reaction WAC
himself called thence afterwards GucherI de Ia Porto /or
the gate) From this point the wall followed the church
Of Saint Jacques and had gate the rue Arcs ar dos