attempt failed, thanks to our gunners. Let us dance the carmagnole to the
music of the cannon's roar!")

* * * * *

Turning east toward Old Paris, we pass, on the right of the Rue St.
Honore, the Church of St. Roch, of which Louis XIV. laid the foundation-
stone in 1633, replacing a chapel built on the site of the Hotel Gaillon.
The church was only finished, from designs of Robert de Cotte, in 1740.
The flight of steps which leads to the entrance has many associations.

"Before St. Roch," says De Goncourt, "the tumbrel in which was Marie
Antoinette, stopt in the midst of howling and hooting. A thousand insults
were hurled from the steps of the church as it were with one voice,
saluting with filth their queen about to die. She, however, serene and
majestic, pardoned the insults by disregarding them." It was from these
steps, in front of which an open space then extended to the Tuileries
gardens, that Bonaparte ordered the first cannon to be fired upon the
royalists who rose against the National Convention, and thus prevented a
counter-revolution. Traces of this cannonade of 13 Vendemiaire are still
to be seen at the angle of the church and the Rue Neuve St. Roch.





II

THE ENVIRONS OF PARIS