To right, on entering the courtyard, were little offices where wood was stored, and where the former proprietor had lodged a porter.

The Phellions were no doubt awaiting the marriage of their son to allow themselves that additional luxury.
This property, on which the Phellions had long had their eye, cost them eighteen thousand francs in 1831.

The house was separated from the courtyard by a balustrade with a base of freestone and a coping of tiles; this little wall, which was breast-high, was lined with a hedge of Bengal roses, in the middle of which opened a wooden gate opposite and leading to the large gates on the street.

Those who know the cul-de-sac of the Feuillantines, will understand that the Phellion house, standing at right angles to the street, had a southern exposure, and was protected on the north by the immense wall of the adjoining house, against which the smaller structure was built.

The cupola of the Pantheon and that of the Val-de-Grace looked from there like two giants, and so diminished the sky space that, walking in the garden, one felt cramped and oppressed.