beautiful, not less grand. Those which first caught the eye were the Bernardins, with their three bell towers; Sainte-Genevi�ve, whose square tower, which still exists, makes us regret the rest; the Sorbonne, half college, half monastery, of which so admirable a nave survives; the fine quadrilateral cloister of the Mathurins; its neighbor, the cloister of Saint-Benoit, within whose walls they have had time to cobble up a theatre, between the seventh and eighth editions of this book; the Cordeliers, with their three enormous adjacent gables; the Augustins, whose graceful spire formed, after the Tour de Nesle, the second denticulation on this side of Paris, starting from the west.

The colleges, which are, in fact, the intermediate ring between the cloister and the world, hold the middle position in the monumental series