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arts-a view which is, unhappily, deeply rooted iu him and deeply pondered."
Victor Hugo, Oeuvres completes, novels, vol. 3 (paris, 1880), p. 5.' [F6,3]
Before the decision to build the Palais de I'IndustrielO was made, a plan had
existed to roof over a section of the Champs-Elysees-along with its trees-in the
manner of the Crystal Palace. [F6,4]
Victor Hugo in Notre-Dame de Paris, on the Bourse: 'If it he the rule that the
architecture of a building should he adapted to its function, ... we can hardly
wonder enough at a monument which might equally well be a king's palace, a house
of commons, a town hall, a college, a riding school, an academy, a warehouse, a
law court, a museum, a barracks, a sepulcher, a temple, or a theater. For the
present, it is a stock exchange . ... It is a stock exchange in France just as it would
have been a temple in Greece . ... We have the colonnade encircling the monument,
beneath which, on days of high religious solemnity, the theory of stockbrokers
and jobbers can be majestically expounded. These, for sure, are very stately
monuments. If we add to them many fine streets, as amusing and diverse as the
Rue de Rivoli, then I do not despair but that one day a balloon's-eye view of Paris
will offer us that wealth of lines, . .. that diversity of aspect, that somehow . ..
unexpected beauty, which characterizes a checkerhoard." Victor Hugo, Oeuvres
completes, novels, vol. 3 (Paris , 1880), pp. 206-207 (Notre-Dame de Paris). II
[F6a,1]
The Paris Stock Exchange, mid-nineteenth century. Courtesy of the Paris Stock Exchange.
See F6a,1.