Paris and Its Story

by Thomas Okey

For the general history of France the monumental Histoire de France now in course of publication, edited by E. Lavisse; Michelet’s Histoire de France, Récits de l’Histoire de France, and Procès des Templiers; Victor Duruy, Histoire de France; Histoire de France racontée par les Contemporains, edited by B. Zeller; Carl Faulmann, Illustrirte Geschichte der Buchdruckerkunst; the Chronicles of Gregory of Tours, Richer, Abbo, Joinville, Villani, Froissart, Antonio Morosini; De Comines; Géographie Historique, by A. Guerard; Froude’s essay on the Templars; Jeanne d’Arc, Maid of Orleans, by T. Douglas Murray; Paris sous Philip le Bel, edited by H. Geraud.

For the later Monarchy, the Revolutionary and Napoleonic periods, the Histories of Carlyle, Mignet, Michelet and Louis Blanc; the Origines de la France Contemporaine, by Taine; the Cambridge Modern History, Vol. VIII.; the Memoirs of the Duc de St. Simon, of Madame Campan, Madame Vigée-Lebrun, of Camille Desmoulins, Madame Roland, Paul Louis Courier; the Journal de Perlet; Histoire de la Societé Française pendant la Revolution, by J. de Goncourt; Goethe’s Die Campagne in Frankreich, 1792; Légendes et Archives de la Bastille, by F. Funck Brentano; Life of Napoleon I., by J. Holland Rose; L’Europe et la Revolution Française by Albert Sorel; Contemporary American Opinion of the French Revolution, by C. D. Hazen. For the particular history of Paris, the exhaustive and comprehensive Histoire de la Ville de Paris, by the learned Benedictine priests, Michel Félibien and Guy Alexis Lobineau; the so-called Journal d’un Bourgeois de Paris, edited by L. Lalanne; Paris Pendant la Domination Anglaise, by A. Longnon; the more modern Paris à Travers les Ages, by M. F. Hoffbauer, E. Fournier and others; the Topographie Historique du Vieux Paris, by A. Berty and H. Legrand. Howell’s Familiar Letters, Coryat’s Crudities, and Evelyn’s Diary, contain useful matter. For the chapters on Historical Paris, E. Fournier’s Promenade Historique dans Paris, Chronique des Rues de Paris, Enigmes des Rues des Paris; the Marquis de Rochegude’s Guide Pratique à Travers le Vieux Paris, and the excellent Nouvel Itinéraire Guide Artistique et Archéologique de Paris, by C. Normand, now appearing in fascicules published by the Société des Amis des Monuments Parisiens, have been largely drawn upon and supplemented by affectionate memories of an acquaintance with the city dating back for more than thirty years, and by notes of pilgrimages, under the guidance of a member of the Positivist Society of Paris, made in 1891 through revolutionary Paris and Versailles.

For personal help and information the writer desires to express his obligations to Monsieur Lafenestre, Director of the Louvre: Monsieur L. Bénédite, Director of the Luxembourg; Monsieur G. Redon, architect of the Louvre and the Tuileries; Professor A. Legros; and for help in proof-reading to Mr James Britten.

CONTENTS

[CHAPTER I]
PAGE
Gallo-Roman Paris	[1]
[CHAPTER II]
The Barbarian Invasions—St. Genevieve—The Conversion of Clovis—The Merovingian Dynasty	[12]
[CHAPTER III]
The Carlovingians—The Great Siege of Paris by the Normans—The Germs of Feudalism	[29]
[CHAPTER IV]
The Rise of the Capetian Kings and the Growth of Paris	[45]
[CHAPTER V]
Paris under Philip Augustus and St. Louis	[61]
[CHAPTER VI]
Art and Learning at Paris	[79]
[CHAPTER VII]
The Parlement—The States-General—Conflict with Boniface VIII.—The Destruction of the Knights-Templars	[103]
[CHAPTER VIII]
Etienne Marcel—The English Invasions—The Maillotins—Murder of the Duke of Orleans—Armagnacs and Burgundians	[117]
[CHAPTER IX]
Jeanne d’Arc—Paris under the English—End of the English Occupation	[131]
[CHAPTER X]
Louis XI. at Paris—The Introduction of Printing	[138]
[CHAPTER XI]
Francis I.—The Renaissance at Paris	[145]
[CHAPTER XII]
Rise of the Guises—Huguenot and Catholic—The Massacre of St. Bartholomew	[161]
[CHAPTER XIII]
Henry III.—The League—Siege of Paris by Henry IV.—His Conversion, Reign, and Assassination	[175]
[CHAPTER XIV]
Paris under Richelieu and Mazarin	[192]
[CHAPTER XV]
The Grand Monarque—Versailles and Paris	[209]
[CHAPTER XVI]
Paris under the Regency and Louis XV.—The Brooding Storm	[227]
[CHAPTER XVII]
Louis XVI.—The Great Revolution—Fall of the Monarchy	[243]
[CHAPTER XVIII]
Execution of the King—Paris under the First Republic—The Terror—Napoleon—Revolutionary and Modern Paris	[259]
[CHAPTER XIX]
Historical Paris—The Cité—The University Quarter—The Ville—The Louvre—The Place de la Concorde—The Boulevards	[281]
[CHAPTER XX]
The Comédie Française—The Opera—Some Famous Cafés—Conclusion	[321]
[Index]: [A],[B],[C],[D],[E],[F],[G],[H],[I],[J],[K],[L],[M],[N],[O],[P],[Q],[R],[S],[T],[U],[V],[W].	[339]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

LIST OF COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS BY O. F. M. WARD
Rue St. Antoine	[Frontispiece]
Point du Jour	facing page [5]
Roman Baths in Musée de Cluny	”” [8]
Bois de Boulogne—Lac Supérieur	”” [19]
Rue St. Jacques	”” [23]
St. Julien le Pauvre	”” [26]
Port des Ormes	”” [37]
L’institut de France	”” [44]
Hotel Gerouilhac	”” [51]
St. Etienne Du Mont and Tour de Clovis	”” [62]
Vincennes	”” [68]
Rue de Venise	”” [77]
La Sainte Chapelle	”” [86]
The Seine from Pont da la Concorde	”” [93]
Le Petit Pont	”” [100]
Ile de la Cité	”” [109]
The Seine at Alfortville	”” [117]
On the Quai des Grands Augustins	”” [124]
Notre Dame from the North	”” [132]
Porch of St. Germain l’Auxerrois	”” [141]
Rue Royale	”” [146]
Boulevard St. Michel	”” [155]
Luxembourg Gardens	”” [165]
The Louvre—Galerie d’Apollon	”” [172]
St. Gervais	”” [178]
Luxembourg Palace	”” [181]
Place des Vosges	”” [188]
Pont St. Michel	”” [191]
Pont Neuf	”” [194]
Notre Dame	”” [207]
Place du Carrousel	”” [211]
Versailles—Le Tapis Vert	”” [214]
Grand Palais and Pont Alexandre	”” [219]
Hotel des Invalides	”” [222]
Colonne Vendôme	”” [230]
Place du Châtelet and Tour St. Jacques	”” [235]
Mont S. Geneviève from l’Ile S. Louis	”” [238]
St. Sulpice	”” [241]
Montmartre from Buttes Chaumont	”” [251]
Place de la Concorde	”” [256]
Eiffel Tower	”” [261]
Arc de Triomphe, Place du Carrousel	”” [268]
The Louvre, Eastern Entrance	”” [274]
Rue Drouot and Sacré Cœur	”” [278]
Versailles—Bassin de Neptune	”” [283]
The Observatory	”” [287]
The Louvre from the South-East	”” [293]
St. Eustache	”” [300]
The Trocadero	”” [327]
Arc de Triomphe—Place de l’Etoile	”” [330]
In the Garden of the Tuileries	”” [334]
REPRODUCTIONS OF PAINTINGS AND SCULPTURE
Thirteenth Century Sculptures from St. Denis (Restored)	”” [84]
Our Lady of Paris. Early Fifteenth Century	”” [136]
Portrait of Francis I. Jean Clouet	”” [150]
Tritons and Nereids from the Old Fontaine des Innocents. Jean Goujon	”” [166]
Portrait of Elizabeth of Austria, Wife of Charles IX. François Clouet	”” [168]
Catherine de’ Medici. French School, Sixteenth Century	”” [176]
Portion of the East Façade of the Louvre. From Blondel’s Drawing, showing Perrault’s Base. (Reproduced by permission of M. Lampue)	”” [220]
Winged Victory of Samothrace	”” [302]
St. George and the Dragon. Michel Colombe	”” [302]
Cardinal Virtues. Germain Pilon	”” [304]
Diana and the Stag. Jean Goujon (Photogravure)	”” [304]
The Burning Bush. Nicolas Froment (Photogravure)	”” [306]
Triptych of Moulins. Le Maître de Moulins	”” [308]
Juvenal Des Ursins. Fouquet	”” [308]
Shepherds of Arcady. Poussin	”” [310]
A Seaport. Claude Lorrain	”” [312]
Landing of Cleopatra at Tarsus. Claude Lorrain	”” [312]
The Embarkation for the Island of Cythera Watteau	”” [314]
Grace before Meat. Chardin	”” [316]
Madame Récamier. David	”” [316]
Landscape. Corot	”” [318]
Lictors bringing to Brutus the bodies of his Sons. David	”” [320]
The Pond. Rousseau	”” [322]
The Binders. Millet	”” [324]

The majority of the photographs of sculpture have been taken by Messrs. Haweis & Coles, while most of the other photographs are reproduced by permission of Messrs. Giraudon.