ses mille rumeurs, *its countless noises

30. Notre-Dame, the great Cathedral of Paris, begun in 1 163, but not finished tiU centuries after.

8o LE SERF.

31. au dflrge pascal. The Easter or Paschal candie is the large candie blessed on Easter Eve, and lit on Easter Sunday as an emblem of the Résurrection. The chronicle alluded to was fastened to the candlestick, much as copies of the Bible were afterwards chained in English churches, so that ail might read without taking the books away.

32. qui aurait pu faire le tour de Paris, 'which would hâve gone ail round Paris.' This candie, rolled up like a cord, was supposed to be as long as the wall of Paris. It was given yearly to the church by the municipality of Paris, in fulfilment of a vow made in 1357. In 1605 a silver lamp was given instead.

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1. l'hôtel des Toumèlles, a great mansion, near the Bastille, used by Louis XI as his résidence.

2. lliôtel Saint-Paul, or Saint Pol^ the résidence of the Counts of Saint Pol in Paris.

la Bastille, the famous fortress and prison, built in the i4th century to command Paris; captured by the people of Paris, July 14, 1789, and afterwards destroyed.