The Arcades Project - Operi

Saint-Martin. At the crossroads of Chateau-Landon a second route branched off,
that of Senlis. A third, the Melun road, a pathway cut through a thick marsh near
the Bastille, came into existence perhaps, at the height of the empire . . . ; this
would become the Rue Saint-Antoine. ?? Duhech and d Espezel, Histoire de Paris
(Paris , 1926), p. 19. [12,4]
""Turning off from the boulevards, let us go down the Rue de Rougemont. You will
notice that the Comptoir d'Escompte occupies the bottom of a
marked depression: you are in the earliest bed of the Seine." Duhech and
d'Espeze1, Histoire de Paris (Paris, 1926), p. 14. [12.,1]
"The bourgeois center, Paris Ville, sharply distinguished from Paris Cite, grew up
on the Right Bank and on the bridges which, at that time, were erected everywhere.
The most influential segment of the population consisted of the merchants;
here again, the hanse