Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 130, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1920 — PARIS LANDMARK MUST GO [ARTICLE]

PARIS LANDMARK MUST GO

House of Robespierre Forced to Give Way to March of City Improvement. The Paris correspondent of The London Times writes: The house where Robespierre Is said to have lived, or, at any rate, passed several nights. Is to follow the way of many reminders of the past In the general scheme for improving Paris. - — t — This handsomely fronted building is situated in the Cite du Retlro, an antiquated backwater between the Madeleine and the Faubourg Saint Honore, which was overlooked when- this quarter was brought up to date. The tenants of the prince of Monaco, to whom the district belongs, have been given notice, btt the demolition probably will be postponed for a few years, owing to the action of the law which permits the owners of condemned property to continue using it for five years. The capital will soon be very much improved, and all slums will disappear in accordance with the general scheme ‘for flattening out the fortifications and allowing the city to undergo natural expansion. With this object the underground railway lines are to be extended far into the country, with two proposed termini at St. Germain and Maisons Laffltte. The Metropolitan railway reaching the latter will greatly ease the strain upon the ordinary 'railways on race days.