House and Garden 
A PAINTING OF THE YEAR I4IO 
Showing on the left the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Pres, the Louvre and Montmartre 
From “ Statistique Monumentale de Paris ”—Lenoir 
It is quite evident, however, that at about 
the same time that the fief of Saint-Germain- 
des-Pres was created, an immense grant was 
made to the bishop of Paris of territory on 
the northern side extending, approximately, 
from the Rue Saint-Denis to the Place de la 
Concorde, east and west, and as far from the 
river as the Parc Monceaux. This fief was 
called For-l' Eveque. In the midst of it was 
the bishop’s villa, Ville-l'Eveque, at a point 
marked in the 
modern map 
by the Place de 
la Ville-l’Ev- 
eque, connect¬ 
ed by the Rue 
d e 1 a V i 11 e - 
l’Eveque with 
the Boulevard 
Malesherbes, 
near the Mad¬ 
eleine. 
The earliest 
records show 
this immense 
tract divided 
into four small¬ 
er fiefs; the 
property re¬ 
tained by the 
bishop, and the 
holdings of Saint-Germain-l’Auxerrois, Saint- 
Denis de la Chartre, and Fromentel. 
The territory of the For-l’Eveque paid 
vast revenues to the Church. It contained 
the H alles Centrales, perhaps the most im¬ 
portant market of medieval Europe, and the 
Louvre and Tuileries. Some of the land 
was a marsh, through which the road to the 
bishop’s villa was built on a causeway. This 
road, which became the Rue Saint-Honore 
From Hojfbauer 
