Dumas’ Paris

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Alexandre Dumas

Dumas’ Paris

By

Francis Miltoun
Author of “Dickens’ London,” “Cathedrals of Southern
France,” “Cathedrals of Northern France,” etc.

With two Maps and many Illustrations

Boston
L. C. Page & Company
MDCCCCV

Copyright, 1904
By L. C. Page & Company
(INCORPORATED)

All rights reserved

Published November, 1904

COLONIAL PRESS
Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co.
Boston, Mass., U.S.A.

Contents

CHAPTER PAGE
[I.]A General Introduction[1]
[II.]Dumas’ Early Life in Paris[14]
[III.]Dumas’ Literary Career[33]
[IV.]Dumas’ Contemporaries[68]
[V.]The Paris of Dumas[83]
[VI.]Old Paris[126]
[VII.]Ways and Means of Communication[147]
[VIII.]The Banks of the Seine[165]
[IX.]The Second Empire and After[178]
[X.]La Ville[195]
[XI.]La Cité[235]
[XII.]L’Université Quartier[244]
[XIII.]The Louvre[257]
[XIV.]The Palais Royal[266]
[XV.]The Bastille[278]
[XVI.]The Royal Parks and Palaces[297]
[XVII.]The French Provinces[321]
[XVIII.]Les Pays Étrangers[360]
Appendices[373]
Index[377]

List of Illustrations

PAGE
Alexandre Dumas[Frontispiece]
Dumas’ House at Villers-Cotterets[7]
Statue of Dumas at Villers-Cotterets[14]
Facsimile of Dumas’ Own Statement of His Birth[26]
Facsimile of a Manuscript Page from One of Dumas’ Plays[37]
D’Artagnan[48]
Alexandre Dumas, Fils[64]
Two Famous Caricatures of Alexandre Dumas[68]
Tomb of Abelard and Héloïse[82]
General Foy’s Residence[84]
D’Artagnan, from the Dumas Statue by Gustave Doré[123]
Pont Neuf—Pont au Change[135]
Portrait of Henry IV.[143]
Grand Bureau de la Poste[154]
The Odéon in 1818[167]
Palais Royal, Street Front[183]
77 Rue d’Amsterdam—Rue de St. Denis[188]
Place de la Grève[197]
Tour de St. Jacques la Boucherie (Méryon’s Etching, “Le Stryge”)[198]
Hôtel des Mousquetaires, Rue d’Arbre Sec[207]
D’Artagnan’s Lodgings, Rue Tiquetonne[214]
109 Rue du Faubourg St. Denis (Déscamps’ Studio)[221]
Nôtre Dame de Paris[235]
Plan of La Cité[236]
Carmelite Friary, Rue Vaugirard[246]
Plan of the Louvre[257]
The Gardens of the Tuileries[265]
The Orleans Bureau, Palais Royal[268]
The Fall of the Bastille[284]
Inn of the Pont de Sèvres[302]
Bois de Boulogne—Bois de Vincennes—Forêt de Villers-Cotterets[315]
Château of the Ducs de Valois, Crépy[318]
Castle of Pierrefonds[324]
Nôtre Dame de Chartres[329]
Castle of Angers—Château of Blois[333]