House and Garden 
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FRAGMENTS OF THE WALL OF PHI LI P PE-AUGUSTE DISCOVERED 
NEAR THE RUE MAZARINE 
From u Region Occidentale de /’ Uni'versite" — Berty , Adolphe and Tisserand 
and the Rue du Faubourg 
Saint-Honore, was later 
favored by people of 
wealth and power who 
built their hotels here. 
Until the Rue de Rivoli 
was built the Rue Saint- 
H onore served as the 
western arm of the Grande 
Croisee. It corresponds 
in an interesting manner 
with the Strand in Lon¬ 
don. 
In building the Louvre 
and the Tuileries the kings 
of France found them¬ 
selves on land which their 
predecessors had given to 
the bishop, and when, as 
sometimes happened, they 
could not buy from him 
what was wanted, they 
were obliged to remain 
his tenants. 
Much later in the date 
ofits formation, but nearly 
as extensive, was the vast 
property of the order of 
the Chevaliers du Temple 
which was constituted by 
the Council of Troyes in 
1128. They had a house 
in Paris as early as 1147, 
and were in high favor 
with the kings from Louis 
VII. (1157-1180) to 
Philippe le Bel (1285- 
1314). When Philippe 
le Bel, through his creature Pope Clement 
V., suppressed their order at the Council 
of Vienne in 1313, all their holdings were 
transferred to the older and rival order of 
the Hospitaliers de Saint-Jean de Jerusalem ; 
but the region retained its original name, 
Ville neuve du Temple ( Villa Nova Templi). 
The culture immediately attached to the 
monastery was built and fortified in the finest 
medieval way. All the buildings have dis¬ 
appeared, but their location is plainly marked 
on the modern map by the Boulevard and 
Marche du Temple. The fief of the Tem¬ 
ple included nearly all the area lying between 
the northern arm of the Grande Croisee and 
the hills of Belleville and Menilmontant. 
It included the Church of Saint-Gervais be¬ 
hind the Hotel de Ville, reaching the Seine 
near that point. Within this territory lay 
the old Marais , which, in the days of Julius 
Caesar, was a barren tract covered with water 
much of the time. By judicious drainage 
the Templars and their successors the Hos¬ 
pitalers made the region one of the most 
desirable in Paris. In the seventeenth and 
eighteenth centuries the Marais was superbly 
built, and innumerable relics of the old pal¬ 
aces are to be seen today. 
On the lie de la Cite itself, the Cathedral, 
with its cloisters and dependent buildings 
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