And so on at considerable length, as they had the whole University to parade through, and then the Roman baths at Cluny. As they came over the Petit Pont, about a thousand wretches emerged from the gates of the Hôtel-Dieu – that colossal poorhouse just by Notre Dame, which was where the priest, grave-diggers, and dead persons had all originated – and, accompanied by Notre Dame's organ, boomed out a mighty chorus to ring down the curtain on this entire pageant.