PALAIS ROYAL. 43j. 



people. The ftreet St. Honore, which is the molt fre- 

 quented in all Paris, runs through it ; and three others, 

 which are not of the leaft coniiderable, but are narrow 

 and dirty, the ftreets Fromenteau, St. Thomas du 

 Louvre, and Chartres, abut upon it. The fquare 

 itfelf is neither fpacious nor elegant; and one mull 

 have very great luck to efcape being fqueezed in the 

 croud, bruifed by the fiacres, or run down by the 

 coaches driving in and out of the palais. On the whole, 

 the place is well enough, conhdered as the point of 

 union of a large capital , but not as the feat of the moil 

 refined enjoyment. 



If any one is deiirous of taking a view of the palace 

 without being in danger of his life, though not with- 

 out having half a dozen elbows cruihing his ribs, he 

 muft place himfelf over againft it, before what is called 

 the Chateau d'eau, a building that contains the refer- 

 voirs for the palais royal and the Tuilleries, in front of 

 which runs a terrace, which elevates the fpeclator above 

 the croud in the fquare. Here you have the whole 

 fagade before you. Two pavilions, with ionic and 

 doric columns, and ornamented with frontons and 

 ftatues of pajou, are connected together by a wall, per- 

 forated with pillars, and on both fides adjoining to the 

 three entrances to the palace. This wall fome think 

 too high for the building, which is fcarcely as high 

 again, and therefore has not the effect, which, from 

 all that is faid and written about it, is ufually ex- 

 pected. 



If we have been fo fortunate as to force through the 

 croud into the firft court, two wings open upon the 

 light, which are likewife decorated with ionic and 



f f a doric 



