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From Histoire Generali 
Romanesque style in Paris. Of this building 
the western tower and porch date from the 
restorations of the Abbe Morardus (990- 
1014). The nave and aisles are of the 
eleventh century, except the vault of the 
nave, which was built in 1644, replacing an 
old wooden roof. 'The transepts belong to 
the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and the 
choir to the middle of the twelfth. Two of 
the original three towers were taken down 
in 1822. There are still to be seen frag¬ 
ments of the lovely Chapelle de la Vierge, 
built in the high 
Gothic period (1245), 
which was designed by 
Pierre de Montreuil, 
architect of the Sainte- 
Chapelle du Palais. 
The beautiful cloisters 
and refectory, also of 
the thirteenth century, 
have disappeared. 
In some way, not at 
all understood, a splen¬ 
did piece of land, ex¬ 
tending along the river 
from the site of the 
Institut to that of the 
Pont de la Concorde, 
was transferred from 
the Abbey of Saint- 
Germain to the Uni- 
versite. It was used 
as recreation ground by 
the students and was 
called Pre aux Clercs. 
The students were 
high-spirited at times, 
and gave the good 
fathers and their ten¬ 
ants no end of trouble, 
but the establishment 
of the Pre aux Clercs 
is an interesting touch 
of modern feeling in 
the thoroughly medie¬ 
val record of the Uni- 
versite. The Church 
of Saint-Sulpice and 
the Palais du Luxem¬ 
bourg were built in the 
territory of Saint-Ger- 
main-des-Pres. The 
bourg and the faubourg Saint-Germain be¬ 
came famous residential property in the 
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The 
remainder of that part of old Paris which 
lay south of the Seine (rive gauche ), was oc¬ 
cupied by the Universite and the Abbey of 
Saint-Victor. 
The early topography of the region north 
of the river {rive droite ) is not so simple 
as that of the southern side. Civic life has 
not been so active on the rive gauche , and 
old landmarks have persisted longer there. 
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