The Topographical Evolution of the City of Paris 
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OCCIDENS- 
THE BELLEFOREST PLAN-I 575 
den attached to the Palais was devoted to 
the Place Dauphine with the adjacent quays 
to the north and south. 
The Pont-Neuf was the first bridge built 
in Paris without permanent superstructures. 
Its most important feature was, naturally, 
the terrace, or terre-plein , near its center, 
where the equestrian statue of Henry IV., 
by Jean Bologue and Tacca, was placed in 
1613. 
The Seine, from the Ouai de la Conference 
to the lie de la Cite is fairly straight. The 
western point of the island is nearly in its 
axis, and makes a good center for the im¬ 
portant masses of architecture on either side. 
This, topographically, the focal point of the 
city, has been occupied precisely three hun¬ 
dred years by the Pont-Neuf; well occupied, 
too, but modestly, we may say, with the 
Pont Alexandre III. leaping the river be¬ 
hind us. The Place Dauphine is certainly 
a very commonplace mass of buildings to 
place in so conspicuous a position. It is a 
site worthy of a great monument; but the 
people of Paris have never been willing to 
place anything here which might eclipse or 
belittle Notre-Dame and the Sainte-Cha- 
pelle. Probably the best solution of the 
difficulty would be to destroy the Place 
Dauphine and revive the old Jardin du Roi 
which, as appears in our maps, made such a 
pleasant termination of the island. 
THE HOTEL DE VILLE 
Probably the most important monument 
which the Renaissance gave to Paris was the 
old Hotel de Ville, destroyed by the Com¬ 
mune in 1871. Etienne Marcel, Prevot 
des Marchands , as a part of his desperate 
attempt to secure a semblance of indepen¬ 
dent civic life for Paris, managed, at great 
expense and in the teeth of unreasonable 
opposition, to buy for the city the old Mai- 
son aux Piliers in the Place de Greve. 
When Marcel died, in 1358, nearly all the 
