dence
from unwilling witnesses, hence its name of Tour Bon Bec or Bavarde.
The fine western facade and the Salle des Pas Perdus of the Cour
d'Assises, looking on the Place Dauphine, were completed in 1868.

[Footnote 183: Permission to visit on Thursdays, 9-5, to be obtained
by written application to the Prefect of Police, Rue de Lutece.]

Few Law Courts in Europe have so venerable a history as the Palais de
Justice. From the times when the Roman praetor set up his court, more
than two thousand years ago, to the present day, a temple of Law and
Justice has ever stood on this spot.

SECTION II

_St. Julien le Pauvre--St. Severin--The Quartier Latin._

As we fare S. from the W. end of the Parvis of Notre Dame and cross
the Petit Pont, we behold the old Roman Road, now Rue St. Jacques,
rising straight before us and on the annexe of the Hotel Dieu,[184] to
the L. of the Place du Petit Pont find inscribed their names (p. 46),
who nearly twelve centuries ago dared:--

"For that sweet motherland which gave them birth,
Nobly to do, nobly to die."

On the site of the Place stood the Petit Chatelet, demolished in 1782,
a gloomy prison where many a rowdy student was incarcerated. To the L.
of the Rue du Petit Pont[184] we turn by the Rue de la Bucherie and on
our R. find the Rue St. Julien le Pauvre. Here on the L., hidden
behind a pair of shabby wooden gates, stands the modest little
twelfth-century church, now used for the Uniat Greek services, where
St. Gregory of Tours found the drunken impostor (pp. 32, 33), where
the University of Paris first held its sittings, and where twice a
year the royal provost attended to swear to preserve the privileges
of the rector, masters and scholars. Near by stood the house of
Buridan (_note_, p. 68). At the end of the street we turn R. by the
old Rues Galande and St. Severin: at No. 4 of the latter, we see a
trace of the original naming of the streets by Turgot, the marks of
the erasure of the word "Saint" during the Revolution being clearly
visible. Parallel with this street to the N. is the Rue de la
Huchette, from which opens the curious old Rue du Chat qui Peche and
the Rue Zacharie, in mediaeval times called Sac a Lie, which
communicates with the Rue St. Severin. To our L. is the fine Gothic
church of St. Severin, one of the most beautiful and interesting in
Paris, on the site of the oratory of Childebert I., where St. Cloud
was shorn and took his vows. On the thir