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| | II. A Birds-Eye View of Paris. Book III. Hugo, Victor Marie. 1917. Notre Dame de Paris. Vol. XII. Harvard ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27) |
 | | Independently of these two principal streets, cutting diametrically through the breadth of Paris and common to the entire capital, the Town and the University had each its own main street running in the direction of their length, parallel to the Seine, and intersecting the two arterial streets at right angles. |
 | | Thus, in the Town you descended in a straight line from the Porte Saint-Antoine to the Porte Saint-Honoré; in the University, from the Porte Saint Victor to the Porte Saint-Germain. |
 | | These two great thoroughfares, crossing the two first mentioned, formed the frame on to which was woven the knotted, tortuous network of the streets of Paris. |
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