“.. A new opening is the boulevard du Prince Eugène, starting at the crossing of the boulevard du Temple with the Château d’Eau. It links the center of Paris directly to the Throne Square. Herethe pompous way into the city has been preserved. Let’s go a bit farther away and pass the two high columns supporting the statues of Saint-Louis and Philippe-Auguste. Placed at the entry to the Faubourg Saint-Antoine, they look like two royal sentries. Let’s go along this large avenue leading to the ancient woods, where in the remote times of pagan Gaul the Romans used to worship the sylvan god. Above the old elm-trees lining the road, one can make out the top of the dungeon, one of the few remains left to modern France by the military and feudal monarchy. ”.

Amédée Achard