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egg ornaments and little palms badly carved on the archivolt. He considered this to be undoubtedly the door of the Temple. The site is determined by the fact that the Royal Hospital was built in the Rue Villecourt, exactly behind this angle of the street. The Huguenots strongly opposed its construction in an appeal dated 28 April, 1677, on the plea that they would be troubled in the exercise of their religion thereby. In fact, they were regularly hemmed in by the "Union Chrétienne," the "Visitation" and the Hospital, which was built in spite of their complaints.

The Temple must have been in a perilous condition with such neighbours, and in 1685 we find a company of dragoons beginning their work of persecution by demolishing it entirely. Madame Bazille's garden has been partly built over; but whether the garden wall was incorporated into the little house cannot be proved. It is remarkable however that a walled-up door with a round arch still exists at the angle of these streets.

Continuing along the Rue de la Croix Bruneau, almost as far as the Church of the Carmelites (alias S. Pierre du Martray) there is, on the left hand of the dusty white street, a picturesque archway spanning a little walled lane. This lane winds steeply up to the Castle through the wooded ramparts. Through the Gothic arch is seen at a few yards distance. before the lane turns abruptly to the left, another archway with a rickety old wooden door, on which is splashed in chalk a white cross. Behind these walls extends the great deserted field, once the Cemetery of the town. The name was originally "Cimetière des Martyrs," from its having been the burial place of the early Christian martyrs. It was corrupted into "Marcrois" by the country people, and then into "Martray," which name it still bears. It lay originally outside the

walls.

Up to 1633 the Protestants received a grudging Permission from Rochefort, confirmed by Mangot and Douville to bury their dead in the upper portion of this field.

On the 27th November of that year, a decree was passed forbidding them the use of it, and ordering Jean Martin Laubardemont, councillor of State, to make over to them (at the Huguenots' expense!) two gardens in the angle formed by the Rue de la Croix Bruneau and "du Portail Chaussé."

The old Cemetery is on a height and overlooks the surrounding country and the sunset. It is a sad, lonely spot, covered with short grass. The broken base of a great

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