good; the nobility attend much at this church, and it is rather famed for its preachers.  The Musee d’Artillerie is adjoining, and contains the armour worn from the earliest ages, as also the weapons which have been used, and those of different countries.  Here will be found the armour of many heroes famed in the annals of chivalry, as Bayard, Dunois, Duguesclin, etc., and an equestrian figure of Francis I. There is also the helmet of Attila, who was slain by Clovis, in 453; another, on which are some verses from the Koran, of Abderama, killed by Charles Martel.  The dagger with which Ravillac assassinated Henri IV, having a black crape round it.  There are, besides, models of all kinds of machines connected with war; the armour of Joan of Arc will be regarded with interest, as also of many others whose names have been celebrated in history; a catalogue descriptive of every object is to be had at the door for one franc.  There is a military library attached to the establishment, with naval charts, etc.  Strangers are admitted on Thursdays and Saturdays, from twelve till four, with their passports.

A few steps take us into the Rue du Bac, which we will ascend to the Rue de Grenelle, and observe one of the finest fountains in Paris, erected after the designs of Bouchardon, in the reign of Louis XV, began 1739 and finished in 1745; it is most richly adorned by statues and allegorical subjects.  At No. 120, Rue du Bac, is the church of St. Francois Xavier, or of Foreign Missionaries, it was built in 1683, consisting of two parts, one on the ground floor, and the other above, the lower is perfectly plain, the upper is of the ionic order; there are some good paintings of the French school of the period.  Behind is the seminary for the instruction of young men intended as missionaries in the requisite sciences and languages.  The worthy Abbe Edgeworth, the attendant of Louis XVI in his last moments, was one of the members of this institution.

Just by in the Rue de Babylone is a barrack for infantry, famed for the attack and defence carried on in the Revolution of the three days.  In the rue Vanneau is a recently built house, a complete type of the style of Francis I. In the Rue de Varennes are several grand hotels of the nobility of France, with their family names inscribed over the immense gateways; it is in fact one of the most interesting streets in Paris; amongst others, at No. 23, is the hotel of the late Duchess de Bourbon, now belonging to Mme Adelaide d’Orleans.  No. 35, is the hotel d’Orsay, recently restored and embellished, and several others of the same description.  At the north-west corner of the street stands the hotel de Biron, now converted into the celebrated convent and seminary of the Sacre Coeur (Sacred Heart), where so many daughters of the French, English and Irish catholic nobility have been brought up.  No. 16, the offices of the Minister of Commerce, and No. 10, Rue Hillerin-Bertin, is the Ecole royale des Ponts-et-Chaussees, established in