The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Book 3 Chapter 2 Page 7

from the ancient wall, like the summits of hills in an inundation, — like archipelagos of the old Paris submerged beneath the new.

Since that time Paris has undergone yet another transformation, unfortunately for our eyes; but it has passed only one more wall, that of Louis XV., that miserable wall of mud and spittle, worthy of the king who built it, worthy of the poet who sung it, —

Le mur murant Paris rend Paris murmurant.

In the fifteenth century, Paris was still divided into three wholly distinct and separate towns, each having its own physiognomy, its own specialty, its manners, customs, privileges, and history: the City, the University, the Town. The City, which occupied the island, was the most ancient, the smallest, and the mother of the other two, crowded in between them like