Note 1181 — Chapter V
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Schiller, in his account of the execution of the two nobles, tells us that it was from a window of the Hôtel de Ville, the fine old building on the opposite side of the market-place, that Alva watched the last struggles of his victims. The cicerone, on the other hand, who shows the credulous traveller the memorabilia of the city, points out the very chamber in the Maison du Roi in which the duke secreted himself.—Valeat quantum.