the last extremity
4.at the extremity, the Hotel Saint-Pol,properly speaking, with its multiplied facades, its successive enrichments from the time of Charles V., the hybrid excrescences,with which the fancy of the architects had loaded it during the last two centuries, with all the apses of its chapels,all the gables of its galleries, a thousand weathercocks for the four winds, and its two lofty contiguous towers, whose conical roof, surrounded by battlements at its base, looked like those pointed caps which have their edges turned up.
