House and Garden 
Michel as far as the Rue Soufflot, 
was the parade-ground, lined by 
barracks and a strong wall, re¬ 
mains of which have been found. 
It was in this early Champ-de-Mars 
that ten thousand Roman soldiers 
assembled, and, with their drinking 
bowls in their hands, rushed to the 
palace to proclaim Julian Emperor. 
Not the only coup d'etat which 
Paris has seen. 
The Palais des Thermes made a 
great impression in the Middle 
Ages. Jean de Hauteville, writing 
in the twelfth century, mentions 
the noble building which “ elevait 
ses rimes jusqu aux cieux." Across 
the gardens from the river, and 
from the hills of Sainte-Genevieve, 
the Observatoire and Mont-Par- 
nasse it must have made a hue 
display. 
At some time after 357 water 
was brought to the Thermes by a 
famous aqueduct which gathered its 
supply from springs in the neigh¬ 
borhood of Rungis, nineteen kilo¬ 
meters from Paris. The channel, 
one meter and ten centimeters 
wide by ninety centimeters high, 
followed the hills on the eastern side 
ISOMETRIC VIEW OF THE THERMES 
Ship corbels above From “ Statistique Monumentale de Paris”—Lenoir 
THE ROMAN AQUEDUCT-A MAP SHOWING ITS COURSE 
From “ Statistique Monumentale de Paris ”—Lenoir 
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