Chapter 33

_Pont au Change_--_Palais de Justice_--Once a royal residence --Banquet given there, in 1313, by Philip the Fair, at which were present Edward II and his queen Isabella--Alterations which this palace has undergone, in consequence of having, at different times, been partly reduced to ashes--Madame _La Motte_ publicly whipped--In 1738, _Lewis XVI_ here held a famous bed of justice, in which _D'Espresmenil_ struck the first blow at royalty--He was exiled to the _Ile de St. Marguerite_--After having stirred up all the parliaments against the royal authority, he again became the humble servant of the crown--After the revolution, the _Palais de Justice_ was the seat of the Revolutionary Tribunal--_Dumas_, its president, proposed to assemble there five or six hundred victims at a time--He was the next day condemned to death by the same tribunal--The _Palais de Justice_, now the seat of different tribunals--The _grande chambre_ newly embellished in the antique style--_La Conciergerie_, the place of confinement of _Lavoisier_, _Malsherbes_, _Cordorcet_, _&c._--Fortitude displayed by the hapless _Marie-Antoinette_ after her condemnation--_Pont St. Michel_--_Pont Notre-Dame_--Cathedral of _Notre-Dame_--Anecdote of _Pepin_ the Short--Devastations committed in this cathedral--Medallions of _Abélard_ and _Héloïse_ to be seen near _Notre-Dame_ in front of the house where _Fulbert_, her supposed uncle, resided--_Petit Pont_--_Pont au Double_--_Pont Marie_--Workmen now employed in the construction of three new bridges--_Pont de la Tournelle_.