ctor of Ivry's domestic woes did Sully
endure here--complaints of his ill-tempered Marie's scoldings, the
contrast between his lawful wife's sour greetings and the endearing
graces and merry, roguish charms of his mistresses; their quarrels and
exactions. All of which the great minister would listen to reprovingly,
and exhort his dejected royal master not to permit himself, who had
vanquished the hosts of his enemies in battle, to be overcome by a
woman's petulancy. To the S. of the library the Boulevard Morland marks
the channel which separated the Isle de Louviers from the N. bank of the
river. We return to the Boulevard Henry IV. and cross to the Quai des
Celestins, where on our L. stands part of a tower of the Bastille,
discovered in 1899 during the construction of the Metropolitan Railway
and transferred here. At the corner of the Rue du Petit Musc opposite,
is the fine Hotel Fieubert, erected by Hardouin Mansard (1671) on part
of the site of the Royal Hotel St. Paul. The principal facade, 2 _bis_
Quai des Celestins, has unhappily been irretrievably spoilt by
subsequent additions. Continuing westward, we note No. 32, the site of
the Tour Barbeau of the Philip Augustus wall. An inscription bids us
remember that there stood the old Tennis Court of the Croix Noire, where
Moliere's troupe of the Illustre Theatre performed in 1645. Turning R.
up the Rue Falconnier, we come upon (L.) the grand old fifteenth-century
palace of the archbishops of Sens (p. 114), now a glass merchant's
warehouse. We regain the Place de l'Hotel de Ville by the Quai of the
same name, or cross the Pont Marie, and stroll about the quiet streets
of the Isle St. Louis (p. 214), and return by the Pont Louis Philippe at
its western extremity.

[Illustration: HOTEL OF THE PROVOST OF PARIS.]

[Footnote 226: All demolished (1911).]

[Footnote 227: Under process of demolition (1911).]

SECTION VII

_The Ville (N. of the Rue St. Antoine)--Tour St. Jacques--Rue St.
Martin--St. Merri--Rue de Venise--Les Billettes--Hotels du
Soubise,[228] de Hollande, de Rohan[229]--Musee Carnavalet[230]--Place
Royale--Musee Victor Hugo[230]--Hotel de Sully._

[Footnote 228: Open Sundays, 12-3.]

[Footnote 229: Open Thursdays at 2 o'clock by a permit from the
Director.]

[Footnote 230: Open daily (except Monday) 10-4 or 5 (1 fr.).
Thursdays and Sundays free. Closed till 12.30 Tuesdays.]

Two parallel historic roads named of St. Martin and of St. Denis cut