PART I.: THE STORY
Gallo-Romain Paris
The Barbarian Invasions—St. Genevieve—The Conversion of Clovis—The Merovingian Dynasty
The Carlovingians—The Great Siege of Paris by the Normans—The Germs of Feudalism
The Rise of the Capetian Kings and the Growth of Feudal Paris
Paris under Philip Augustus and St. Louis
Art and Learning at Paris
Conflict with Boniface VIII.—The States-General—The Destruction of the Knights-Templars—The Parlement
Étienne Marcel—The English Invasions—The Maillotins—Murder of the Duke of Orleans—Armagnacs and Burgundians
Jeanne d'Arc—Paris under the English—End of the English Occupation
Louis XI. at Paris—The Introduction of Printing
Francis I.—The Renaissance at Paris
Rise of the Guises—Huguenot and Catholic—The Massacre of St. Bartholomew
Henry III.—The League—Siege of Paris by Henry IV.—His Conversion, Reign and Assassination
Paris under Richelieu and Mazarin
The Grand Monarque—Versailles and Paris
Paris under the Regency and Louis XV.—The brooding Storm
Louis XVI.—The Great Revolution—Fall of the Monarchy
Execution of the King—Paris under the First Republic—The Terror—Napoleon—Revolutionary and Modern Paris