Chapter 20 Notre Dame de Paris (2) Volume 3 Notre Dame de Paris (5)

However, this side of the Seine is far less commercially busy than the other side. There are more students than craftsmen on this side, so it is noisier and there are more crowds. In fact, the riverside street is only from the St. Michel Pont to Naleta. .The rest of the river bank, either past the Bernardin Monastery, is a bare river beach, or between the two bridges, there are overlapping houses with their foundations soaked in the river.The noise of the Ladies in Washing Clothes was loud, and they shouted, talked, sang, and pounded their clothes from morning to night, just as they are doing now.This is no small pleasure in Paris.

The university town looks like a whole.From one end to the other, it is a uniform and solid whole.The tens of thousands of roofs are densely packed, with edges and corners, adhered to each other, and almost all of them are composed of a geometric principle. Looking down, they show the crystal state of the same substance.The criss-crossed streets did not cut this piece of houses into pieces that were too uneven in size.Forty-two colleges are fairly evenly distributed throughout the university town; and the roofs of these beautiful buildings, in a curious variety of forms, are all of the same art, after all, of the same geometric figure, as the common roofs over which they stand. The product of the square or cube of .These roofs, therefore, only diversify the whole without disturbing its unity; they only complete the whole without becoming redundant.The essence of geometry is harmony.Here and there we can still see beautiful mansions, resplendent and magnificent, rising above the picturesque penthouses on the left bank, such as Nevers, now defunct, Rome, Reims, and the House of Cluny. No. 1, which survives today, is a relief to the artist, though someone, a few years ago, was worse than a pig and a donkey and had its towers chopped off.Near Cluny, there is a Romanesque palace with several unique domed arches, which is the spa bath built by Julian.There are also many abbeys, which have a more pious beauty than the above-mentioned mansions, and a more majestic majesty, but are no less magnificent than the mansions.The first thing that catches the eye is the Bernardin Abbey with its three bell towers; there is also the Abbey of Saint-Genrivieve, whose square tower is still there, but the rest is regrettable; The chapel, half seminary, half monastery, survives only the admirable nave, the beautiful quadrangular monastery of the order of St. Matthew; Between the publication of the seventh and eighth editions of this book a sloppy stage was built on the wall of the monastery; Its spire is shaped like a tooth. On the Paris side, counting from the west, it is the second spire of this shape after the Nare Tower.Each college is actually an intermediate link between the monastery and the world, and it is in the architectural series between the mansion and the monastery. It is serious and elegant, the sculpture is not as elegant as the palace, and the architectural style is not as serious as the monastery.Gothic art just happened to maintain an unbiased balance between splendor and simplicity, and unfortunately almost none of these artifacts have survived.There are many churches in the university city, all of which are dazzling, from the round vault of St. Julian to the pointed vault of St. Severan, and there are all styles of architectural art in all periods.These churches towered over everything, and, as if to add a harmony to the harmony, their pierced steeples, their piercing bell towers, their slender needle-like spires (these This needle-like line is nothing more than a wonderful exaggeration of the roof angle), every moment pierces the jagged edges of the gables.

University town, rolling hills.Mount Saint-Gereviève protrudes like a huge round bottle in the southeast, which is worth watching from the top of Notre Dame: I can only see the many narrow and curved streets (today's Latin Quarter), the densely packed The houses spread out in all directions from the top of the hill, and swooped down almost straight along the hillside to the river. Some seemed to fall, some seemed to get up again, but they all seemed to support each other.You can also see dense black dots, bustling to and fro, passing each other on the street, making people dazzled.That is the multitude seen from a distant height.

The countless roofs, spiers, and high and low buildings make the outline of the university city folded, twisted, twisted, and encroached. It is really strange.From their interstices, at last, from time to time, a long stretch of moss-covered courtyard wall, a thick round tower, and a battlemented gate resembling a fortress could be seen vaguely, that was Philip Augustus. monastery.Beyond it is a piece of green grass, and beyond it is a road that disappears into the distance. There are also a few suburban houses sparsely scattered along the way, and the farther away, the rarer it is.Some of these Guanxiang villages and towns are quite large.First, the town of Saint-Victor, starting from the little tower, with a single-arch bridge over the Biever, a monastery from which you can see the epitaphium Ludivici Grossi of Fat Louis, and a monastery with an octagonal spire, There are four churches with small eleventh-century bell towers next to the spire (there is still one such church in Etampe, which has not been demolished); followed by the town of Saint-Marceau, where there are three churches and a monastery.Then, on the left, beyond the mill and the four white walls of the Goberland house, you come to the town of St. James, where there is a beautifully carved cross at the crossroads, and there is a church of St. James on the upper pass, which was then There is St. Magloire's Church in the fourteenth century, whose beautiful nave was converted into a straw barn by Napoleon; and Notre-Dame des Plantes, with its Byzantine-style mosaics.Finally, the gaze crosses the Shattach Monastery in the plains—a magnificent building contemporary with the Palace of Justice, with small gardens separated into grids—and then crosses the seldom-inhabited ruins of Vowell, looking west. It is the three Romanesque pointed roofs of the Saint-Germain-des-Pré church.

①Fat Louis, that is, Louis VI (1081-1317), King of France (1108-1137). ② The famous dyeing and printing family. Saint-Germain is already a large town, with fifteen to twenty streets.The steeple bell tower of Saint-Sulpice Abbey is at the corner of the town.Next to it, one can discern the quadrangular wall of the market place of Saint-Germain, which is still a market today; and then the column of shame of the abbot, a handsome little round tower topped with a lead cone.The Brickworks and the Street of Kilns, which lead to the communal ovens, were further afield, the Mill on the knoll at the end of the street, and the lonely little house of the Leprosy Asylum.However, it is the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés itself that attracts the attention and makes people look at it for a long time.It is true that this monastery is elegant and dignified, like a church and a lord's mansion. It can be called a monastery palace. Every bishop of Paris is proud to spend the night here; The grandeur, the beauty, the splendor of the petal-lattice windows, are like cathedrals; and the elegant chapels dedicated to the Virgin, the great monasteries, the wide gardens, The spike gates, the drawbridges, the wall mounds that seemed to cut gaps in the surrounding greenery, and the courtyards where the armor of the warriors often intersected with the glittering cassocks of the bishops, all surrounded It is linked together with the three semicircular-vaulted high minarets located in the Gothic apse, like a brilliant painting hanging in the sky.

After a long linger in the university town, at the end, you turn to the right bank again and look across the new town, and the scenery changes suddenly.In fact, the new city is much larger than the university town, but it is not as integrated as the university town.It can be seen at a glance that the new city is divided into several large areas with very different scenes.First, on the east side, this part of the Neustadt still bears the name of the swamp in which Camelogenes lured Caesar into the mire.In the fifteenth century, there were palaces and forests, and this large area of ​​houses reached the river.The four mansions of Jouy, Sens, Balbo and the Queen's Palace are almost connected together, their slate roofs and slender turrets are reflected in the Seine.The gables and battlements of these four mansions are situated between the Rue Nonandier and the Abbey of Celestin, and the gables and battlements of the four mansions are set off by the spiers of the abbey, and the outlines are more elegant and elegant.In front of these luxurious mansions, although there are some dilapidated dark green houses close to the water, they cannot cover the beautiful edges and corners of the fronts of the mansions. Even the sharp ridges of such a distinct wall cannot conceal all these wonderful architectural treasures.It is these rare architectural treasures that make the Gothic art seem to be reunited with every magnificent building.Behind these magnificent mansions, the walls of the Palazzo de Saint-Pol, stretching out in all directions, are vast and varied, sometimes like a castle, with its broken walls, hedges, and battlements, sometimes like a convent, hidden in the sky. Among the big trees.The palace of St. Paul is so vast that the king of France can settle here with dignity and grandeur twenty-two royal relatives such as the dauphin or the duke of Burgundy, as well as their hordes of servants and attendants, not to mention the group of grand princes. The lord; the emperor also stayed here when he came to Paris for sightseeing; and celebrities also had separate residences in this palace.It may be said here that at that time, a prince’s residence had at least eleven rooms, ranging from resplendent bedrooms to prayer rooms, not to mention corridors, bathrooms, stove rooms, and every suite. The other "extra spaces" necessary for the residence; not to mention the gardens for each of the king's guests; There are twenty-two general-purpose laboratories, researching everything from barbecue to wine pairing; there are also thousands of entertainments, such as hockey, handball, and iron ball; there are also poultry pens, fish ponds, horse training grounds, Stables, cattle and sheep pens; library, armory and smithy.Such was the case at that time with a palace, a Louvre, a Palais de Saint-Pol.A city within a city.

① Camus Logena: The leader of the Gauls, who died in 51 BC, lured Caesar's general and his army into the swamp.