At the left of the building was a walled court pierced by a gate which gave entrance to the stables.

For not only the jolly mariners found pleasure at the Corne d'Abondance.

The wild bloods of the town came thither to riot and play, to junket and carouse.

The inn had seen many a mad night, and on the stone flooring lay written many an invisible epitaph.
The host himself was a man of note, one Jean le Borgne, whose cousin was the agent of D'Aunay in the Tour-D'Aunay quarrel over Acadia in New France.

He had purchased the inn during the year '29, and since that time it had become the most popular in the city; and as a result of his enterprise, the Pomme de Pin, in the shadow of the one remaining city gate, Porte de la Grosse-Horloge, had lost the patronage of the nobility.