DONATED BY THE MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION NEW YO Notes of a Traveller, DURING A TOUR THROUGH ENGLAND, FRANCE, AND SWITZERLAND, IN 1828. BY JACOB GREEN, M.D. VOL. III. NEW YORK: G. & C. & H. CARVILL, BROADWAY. Clark & Raser, Printers. Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty One, by G. & C. & H. Carvill, in the Clerk's Office of the Southern District of New York. 3 ASSOCIATION. NEW-YOR! Notes of a Traveller. LETTER XXI.. Paris, Aug. 5th, 1828. Tuesday.-On our return yesterday from the Garden of Plants, we passed the Hotel de Ville or Town Hall, which is a large and curious edifice, interesting on account of its antiquity, and the extraordinary scenes it has witnessed. The infamous Robespierre retreated to this place, after he was outlawed. In the open space in front of the Hall, called the Place de Greve, the celebrated guillotine was erected during the revolution. This horrid instrument of death is still to be seen, in one of the apartments of the building. |