Old Paris Its Court and Literary Salons Author:Elliott Jackson General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1883 Original Publisher: Henry Holt Subjects: France Paris (France) History / Europe / France Travel / Europe / France Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General... more » Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III. Paris at the time of Henry IV.'s Death. -- The H6tel Saint Paul. -- The New Louvre. -- The Hotel de Soissons. -- Henry III.'s Vow. -- Huguenot and Catholic. -- Enlargement of the Tuileries. -- L'Hotel de Ville. -- Le Pont Neuf. -- La Samaritaine. -- A Capucine Convent. -- Saint Vincent de Paul. Paris at the time of Henry IV.'s death did not extend beyond the limits within which Charles V. had fortified it, about the middle of the fourteenth century, after having recovered the greater part of the dominions taken from his father, King John, by Edward III. and the Black Prince. Those fortifications crossed the present Place de Carrousel, enclosing the old Louvre, built by Philippe Auguste as a royal residence in the early part of the thirteenth century. The Louvre was a feudal castle -- the royal donjon-keep. It stood, until the time of Charles V., outside the city walls. Its deep moats were supplied from the Seine, and it was provided with every means that the military art of the day made needful for resistance and defence. Sauval gives full details of these repairs, additions, and embellishments of Charles V., by which the extent, the interest and importance of the Louvre appear to have been much increased. John of France possessed a library of twenty volumes ; his son increased it to nine hundred, placed it in " La Tour de la Librairie" and thus became the founder of the Bibliotheque Royale de France. But while the old fortress of Philippe Auguste wasundergoing repair, a...« less