102 GARDEN OF THE PALAIS DES THERMES. 



tion of 1830 bui^st fortli. The chapel was ^Dulled down and 

 the gi'onnd was turned into a public square and planted with 

 trees. Later on a beautiful fountain^ from the designs of 

 Visconti the architect^ was built in the middle of the spot. 

 The square consists principally of a grassplot which sur- 

 rounds the fountain^ and of two rows of the old trees^ and 

 a few simple ornaments^ but notwithstanding the effect is 

 very pretty. The Irish Ivy is used here in a peculiar way : 

 — trained so as to form low pyramids. Phloxes being planted 

 between. Usually^ it is embellished by a few ornamental 

 exotics in summer_, and is at all times a graceful spot. 



Fig. 40. 



View in the Garden of the Palais des Thermes. 



The square or garden around the Hotel Cluny and Palais 

 des Thermes is quite distinct from all its fellows, and rightly 

 so. Inclosing ruins and a museum of antiquities, the cha- 

 racter of both has been imparted to it by arranging some of 

 the rougher and more permanent objects in it ; and being 

 green and shady, the effect of the whole is quiet and charm- 

 ing, though situated alongside the busy boulevard St. oNIichel. 

 As in most cities there are old ruins and buildiuo^s bearins: 

 some resemblance to those in this gardeu, it may not be 



