This chamber, circular in form, occupied the ground floor of one of those great towers, which, even in our own century, still pierce through the layer of modern edifices with which modern Paris has covered ancient Paris.
Cette chambre, de forme ronde, occupait le rez-de-chaussée de l’une de ces grosses tours qui percent encore, dans notre siècle, la couche d’édifices modernes dont le nouveau Paris a recouvert l’ancien.