Note 17 — Chapter XII · OCTOBER

Those curious to retrace the very sites of history may care to know exactly where the manège stood, since in the manège, as a great phrase goes, “La France fit l’eternel.” The major axis of its ellipse corresponded to the pavement to the north of the Rue de Rivoli under the Arcades, and the centre of this axis was where the Rue Castiglione now falls into the Rue de Rivoli. Its southern wall slightly overlapped the line of the present railing of the Tuileries Gardens; its northern was about in a line with the northern limit of the property now occupied by the Continental Hotel.