LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

From drawings by John Fulleylove, Esq. The portraits from photographs by Messrs. Braun, Clément et Cie.

Molière (from the portrait by Mignard in the Musée Condé, atChantilly)[Frontispiece]
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The so-called Hôtel de la Reine Blanche (from a photograph ofthe Commission du Vieux Paris)facing[28]
Balcony of the Hôtel de Lauzun-Pimodan, on Île Saint-Louis[47]
"Jean-sans-Peur," Duc de Bourgogne (from a painting by anunknown artist, at Chantilly)facing[56]
The Tower of "Jean-sans-Peur"[70]
The Church of Saint-Séverinfacing[74]
Rue Hautefeuille, a Survivor of the Scholars' Quarter[81]
The Interior of Saint-Julien-le-Pauvrefacing[82]
Pierre de Ronsard (from a drawing by an unknown artist, in aprivate collection)facing[88]
Balcony over the Entrance of the Cour du Dragon[92]
Clément Marot (from the portrait by Porbus le Jeune, in aprivate collection)facing[94]
René Descartes (from the portrait by Franz Hals, in theMusée du Louvre)facing[100]
The Stage Door of Molière's Second Theatre in Paris[114]
The Stamp of the Comédie Française[121]
The Molière Fountainfacing[128]
The Door of Corneille's Last Dwelling (from a drawing byRobert Delafontaine, by permission of M. VictorienSardou)facing[142]
Pierre Corneille (from the portrait by Charles Lebrun)facing[148]
Rue Visconti. On the right is the Hôtel de Ranes, and in thedistance is No. 13facing[160]
La Fontaine (from the portrait by Rigaud-y-Ros)facing[176]
Boileau-Despréaux (from the portrait by Largillière)facing[184]
Voltaire (from the statue by Houdon in the foyer of theComédie Française)facing[192]
The Hôtel Lambert[198]
The Seventeenth-century Buildings on Quai Malaquais, withthe Institute and the Statue of Voltairefacing[212]
Charlotte Corday (from the copy by Baudry of the only authenticportrait, painted in her prison)facing[222]
The Refectory of the Cordeliersfacing[230]
The Carré d'Atalante in the Tuileries Gardens[236]
The Girlhood Home of Madame Rolandfacing[244]
No. 13 Quai Conti[258]
Monogram from the former entrance of the Cour du Commerce,believed to be the initials of the owner, one Girardot(from a drawing by Robert Delafontaine, by permissionof M. Victorien Sardou)[269]