LONG-FORGOTTEN CHAPEL
Many years ago, in the fourteenth century, a chapel was built at tho corner of the Rue Saint Jacques, and the ancient Ruedes Noyers, Paris, on the old Roman road, which leads south from the island on tho Seine, where Notre Dame now stands.
Tho existence of the chapel, which was dedicated to Saint Yves, the patron saint of lawyers, had long been forgotten, when a workman, in digging the foundations for an extension of the Metro came upon a stone slab with an inscription on it which showed that it was the foundation stone of a chapel, laid by the King of Franco in the year 1352. A curious thing about tho chapel was tint its inside walls wore once covered with “ brief hags,” which successful picadors placed there- as a grateful offering. Now the stone, the last relic of tho lawyers’ shrine, has been presented to the Museum of tlie Order of the Advocates.
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Evening Star, Issue 20434, 15 March 1930, Page 3
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158LONG-FORGOTTEN CHAPEL Evening Star, Issue 20434, 15 March 1930, Page 3
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