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Excerpt from The Stones of Paris in History and Letters, Vol. 2 of 2
IN preceding chapters we have come upon the small beginnings of the Scholars' Quarter; we have had glimpses of the growth of the great mother Univer sity and of her progeny of out-lying colleges; and we have trodden, with their scholars and students, the' slope of the whole Latin Mountain, as it was named by Pantaleon, that nephew of Pope Urban IV who extolled the learning he had acquired here. Looking down from its crest, over the hill - side to the Seine, we have had under our eyes the mediaeval Pays Latin, filling up the space within its bounding wall, built by philippe-auguste and left untouched by Charles V.; we have seen that wall gradually obliterated through the ages, its gate-ways with their ?anking towers first cut away, its fabric picked to pieces, stone by stone; while, beyond its line, we have watched the building up, early in the seventeenth century, of the Faubourg Saint - Germain, over the pre-aux-clercs, and in the fields beyond, and along the river - bank toward the west. In the centre of this new quarter the nobility of birth was soon intrenched behind its garden-walls, and in the centre of the old quarter the aristocracy of.
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