Das war das Haus, welches Nicolaus Flamel gebaut hatte, wo er um 1417 gestorben war, und welches seitdem, immer leer stehend, nachgerade zu verfallen anfing: so sehr hatten die Hermesjünger und Goldmacher aus aller Herren Länder die Mauern demolirt, auf die sie nur allein ihre Namen eingekratzt hatten.
It was the house which Nicolas Flamel had built, where he had died about 1417, and which, constantly deserted since that time, had already begun to fall in ruins,−−so greatly had the hermetics and the alchemists of all countries wasted away the walls, merely by carving their names upon them.