英文原文为:Three important things are to-day lacking in that façade: in the first place, the staircase of eleven steps which formerly raised it above the soil; next, the lower series of statues which occupied the niches of the three portals; and lastly the upper series, of the twenty-eight most ancient kings of France, which garnished the gallery of the first story, be-ginning with Childebert, and ending with Phillip Augustus, holding in his hand “the imperial apple.”