eleven o’clock
It may still be seen in the rue Thorigny , though at the beginning of the Revolution it was pillaged as having belonged to Monsieur de Juigne , the archbishop of Paris . All the decorations were then destroyed ; and the tenants who lodge there have greatly damaged it ; nevertheless this palace , which is reached through the old house in the rue de la Pelleterie , still shows the noble results obtained in former days by the spirit of family . It may be doubted whether modern individualism , brought about by the equal division of inheritances , will ever raise such noble buildings . Between eleven o'clock and midnight toward the end of October , 1573 , two Italians , Florentines and brothers , Albert de Gondi , Duc de Retz and marshal of France , and Charles de Gondi la Tour , Grand-master of the robes of Charles IX. , were sitting on the roof of a house in the rue Saint-Honore , at the edge of a gutter . This gutter was one of those stone channels which in former days were constructed below the roofs of houses to receive the rain-water , discharging it at regular intervals through those long gargoyles carved in the shape of fantastic animals with gaping mouths . In spite of the zeal with which our present general pulls down and demolishes venerable buildings , there still existed many of these projecting gutters until , quite recently , an ordinance of the police as to water-conduits compelled them to disappear . But even so , a few of these carved gargoyles still remain , chiefly in the _ quartier _ Saint-Antoine , where low rents and values hinder the building of new storeys under the eaves of the roofs .