3-089-469 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

The Petit Nesle district with the Hôtel de Nevers, 1637. Paris: view of the Tour de Nesle, the Grande Galerie of the Louvre, and the Pont Rouge or Barbier (a wooden bridge), seen from the Pont Neuf. Also showing the present-day Pont Royal, Quai de Conti, Hôtel des Monnaies (the Mint), Institut de France, 1st and 7th arrondissements, the banks of the Seine, port activities, boats, riders, horses, medieval houses, the end of the Philippe Auguste city wall, the three bell towers of the Basilica of the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, the Pavillon de Flore.