Note FOOTNOTES — Front matter
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[1] We learn from tradition that Julian never washed hands or face, or suffered any kind of ablution, unless, perhaps, at his christening. In a word, he was a very dirty emperor. Is it not strange that his “Baths” should be the only monument remaining of him in Paris? I presume they are named ironically, or from the old rule of non lavando.
[2] Louis, by a royal edict, ordered that no other building should be constructed in Paris until this work was completed, under a penalty of imprisonment and ten thousand francs fine. It was something in those days to be a king. One has now to ask the Deputies everything, even to gilding the ceilings of the Madelaine.
[3] It is called also the Place de la Concord, and the Place Louis XV.