I-I ouse and Garden 
THE HOTEL DE VILLE AND PLACE DE GREVE IN THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY 
From Hoffbauer 
the Louvre the king required the Bastille at 
the Porte Saint-Antoine, placing it, as the 
Louvre had been, to command the city or 
the suburbs at pleasure. 
The enceinte of Charles V. was not carried 
to the southern side of the river, the old wall 
of Philippe-Auguste being considered suffi¬ 
cient protection for the Universite and the 
monasteries which it surrounded. The region 
within the entire circumvallation was called 
the bourg , or fortified city. That outside 
the wall constitutes the faubourg , or faux- 
bourgs , being subdivided into the Fau¬ 
bourg Saint-Germain, Faubourg Saint-An¬ 
toine, etc. 
The University of Paris is one of the most 
extraordinary creations of the Middle Ages. 
We can consider only its topographical re¬ 
lations here. It began with the schools of 
the Cathedral. In n8othe College des Dix- 
Huit , a dormitory for eighteen students, was 
founded on the property of the Hotel-Dieu 
near the Petit-Pont. It was but a step across 
the river ; many similar establishments were 
created; and these, with several monasteries 
which were really colleges, and the trades¬ 
people required to supply necessities, filled 
the entire region within the wall of Philippe- 
Auguste which assumed the name Universite. 
Our modern name, Latin Quarter, is a little 
broader in its application. 
THE HOTEL DE VILLE 
The municipal constitution and adminis¬ 
tration of Paris in the Middle Ages is an ex¬ 
tremely interesting but obscure subject. Less 
important towns like Rouen, Amiens and 
Laon are better understood. A document 
of Louis VI., le Gros (1108-1137) men¬ 
tions, for the first time, the Mercatores aquee 
or Marchands de /’eau who are supposed to 
be the same body as the Naut<e parisiaci of 
Lutece. The Marchandise de /’ eau , presided 
over by a prevot and board of Echevins (al¬ 
dermen) took the place of the communal 
governing bodies usual in French cities. In 
the fourteenth century the citizens of Paris 
under the leadership of Etienne Marcel, pre- 
vot des Marchands , took advantage of the 
long struggle between the kings of France 
and England for the French crown to advance 
the interests of the city. A favorite ob¬ 
jective with Marcel was to secure a suitable 
meeting place, or city-hall, such as the 
leading cities of Italy and Flanders, and 
many in northern France, then had. A con¬ 
venient location for the municipal building 
was the Place de Greve, this being the land¬ 
ing place of the Marchandise which was near- 
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