House and Garden 
but without, by the roadside, has 
given much assistance to topographi¬ 
cal students. One of these ceme¬ 
teries, on the road to Senlis, now 
Rue Saint-Denis, became the Cime- 
tiere des Innocents, the mediaeval 
Campo-Santo of Paris, and continued 
to disgrace the city until it was abol¬ 
ished in 1785 : a famous example of 
the tenacious conservatism of revo¬ 
lutionary Paris. The Square des 
Innocents takes its place. 
The wooden bridge on the site of 
the Petit-Pont was the gate through 
which all the roads of the southern 
side entered the lie de la Cite and 
northern Lutece. Its strategic im¬ 
portance was of course great. 11 is 
characteristic of the military methods 
of the Romans that they should place 
their fortified camp nearly opposite 
the bridge on the southern side. It 
there commanded all approaches from the 
south and was protected from northern inva¬ 
sion by the two branches of the river and 
the island. This station did not take the 
stereotyped form of the castrum. It was 
simply a stoutly built palace with a castle 
yard, to borrow a term from mediieval archi¬ 
tecture, surrounded by barracks. The pal¬ 
ace lay on the western side of the Orleans 
road precisely at the point where the Hotel 
de Cluny now stands. It covered the entire 
square now bounded by the Rue de Saint- 
Rue. 
c S JVr ^ 'x* h 
u R 1 w 
PLAN OF THE THERMES AND THE HOTEL DE CLUNY 
The black portions indicate existing Roman walls 
THE GRANDE CROISSEE 
A map showing the streets which constituted it 
Jacques, the Boulevard Saint-Germain, the 
Boulevard Saint-Michel and the Rue des 
Ecoles. Some of the outer walls have 
been found under these streets, especially 
under the Boulevard Saint-Germain. The 
building was about as large as the Palais 
du Luxembourg, but judging from the ruins 
now seen in the Boulevard Saint-Michel 
was more imposing in scale. The con¬ 
struction of the palace is usually attributed 
to Constantius Chlorus (Emperor 305—306), 
the grandfather of the famous Julian (Em¬ 
peror 360-363), 
who made Paris 
his favorite winter 
residence; but 
there is nothing 
in the style of 
the masonry 
which makes it 
impossible to as¬ 
cribe the work to 
an earlier date. 
11 may have been 
built in the reign 
of Claudius (Em¬ 
peror 41—54). 
The portion 
which remains of 
this building, by 
far the most im- 
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