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SQUARE DE BE-LLEVILLE. 



Delorme^ and A^ictor Hugo amongst otlier noted persons 

 have inhabited tlie old houses around this old square. 



The garden of the Palais 'Rojsii, probably the best known 

 spot in Paris to the English^ must not be confounded with 

 the Place Royale, It existed long before many of the 

 squares herein mentioned were thought of, is inferior to 

 most of them in beauty^ and possesses no noticeable features 

 except it be ugly lines of clipped trees. 



The Square des Innocents. — This square which was formed 

 in 1859 and 1860 surrounds the celebrated Fontaine des 

 Nymphesj which was built in 1550 by Pierre Lescot^ and 

 decorated by Jean Goujon. In 1860 it was completely 

 restored. The square measures internally 6800 square yards. 

 The expenses attending the construction of this square 

 amounted to the sum of 8000/._, of which more than three 

 quarters was spent in architectural embellishments. Like 

 all the new squares of Paris^ it is tastefully embellished with 

 trees^ shrubs, and flowers,, and forms a fresh and pleasant 

 resort for the inhabitants of the busy neighbourhood in 

 which it is placed. 



Square de la Chapelle Expiatoire de Louis XVI. — This 

 square, which is situated between the new Boulevard 

 Haussmann and the Hues d^Anjou, Pasquier, and Neuve 

 des Mathurins, surrounds the chapel that was erected in 

 the year 1825 on the site of the cemetery containing the 

 remains of the unfortunate Louis XVI. and Marie An- 

 toinette. The total area is about 7500 square yards, of 

 which about 5000 are open to the public. The square 

 cost altogether nearly 7500/., and was completed in the 

 year 1865. 



Square de Belleville. — In the centre of the old jt;Zcce where 

 the fetes of Belleville were formerly held, which was planted 

 with lime trees trained in the form of an arbour, there 

 existed an open space a hundi-ed yards long by sixty yards 

 broad. This piece of ground has been transformed into a 

 square by excavating the earth and planting it with flowers 

 and shrubs, thus creating a very pretty public garden in a 

 not by any means charming neighbourhood. The works were 

 executed in the year 1861, at an expense of 800/. The 



