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Chapter XLVIII: Versailles and the Commune (2)

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Dagobert, King, Tomb of, I., 102; II., 98

_Daily News_, Office of, I., 140

_Daily Telegraph_, Office of, I., 140

D’Aligre and Latude, II., 215, 216

D’Amboise, Jacques, and the Hôtel Cluny, II., 74

_Dame aux Camélias, La_, I., 131

Dames Augustines, The, I., 279

“Dames de la Halle,” II., 315

Damien, Father, I., 80

Damiens, Penance, torture and execution of, I., 17, 18, 39, 79

D’Ancre, Marshal, mutilation of his body before the statue of Henry IV., I., 31

D’Anglas, Boissy, and the Breton Club, I., 162

D’Anjou, Quai, I., 291

D’Antichamp, Marquis, and the Revolution of 1830, I., 170

Danton and the Opéra under the Republic, I., 88;
his execution, 150;
place of residence, II., 108

D’Antraigues, Count and Countess, their assassination, I., 325, 326

Darboy, Monseigneur, Archbishop of Paris, put to death by the Commune, II., 66, 358

D’Argenson, M., and the Arsenal Library, I., 290

D’Arlincourt, Viscount, his romances, II., 238, 239

D’Armagnac, Jacques, I., 47

D’Artois, Count, Tennis-ground of, I., 84

Daubenton, Monument to, II., 150

Daudet, M. Alphonse, and the Académie Française, I., 38

David, his picture of the coronation of Napoleon, I., 21;
and the Temple of Terpsichore, 128, 129;
and the Louvre Picture Gallery, 203

David, Félicien, composer, I., 119

Davison, Mr. J. W., I., 115

Day-bankers, II., 260

Dazincourt in the _Marriage of Figaro_, I., 45

Deaf and Dumb Institutions, II., 89, 90, 199-201

Deaf-mutes, number in France, II., 200;
ancient disregard for them and the work of Abbé de l’Épee, 202

Debtors, Imprisonment of, I., 342, 343; II., 139

Déjazet, Mlle., I., 84

Déjazet Theatre, I., 84

Delacroix, Eugène, his picture in the church of St. Louis and St. Paul, I., 284

Delaroche, Paul, Burial-place of, I., 342

Delavau, Prefect of Police, and the spy system, I., 274, 275; II., 18

Delille, Abbé, his lines on the Palais Royal, I., 167

D’Enfer, Rue, I., 4; II., 90;
and the
entrance to the Catacombs, 101;
and the residences of artists, 106

D’Enghien, Duc, Arrest and execution of, I., 59, 60

Denis, St., Boulevard, I., 93

Denis, St., Church of, I., 7; II., 94

Denis, St., Martyrdom of, I., 7

Denis, St., Necropolis of, I., 98-102

Denis, St., Porte, I., 98

Denis, St., Rue, I., 311, 312

D’Ennery, M. Adolphe, I., 93

D’Epernon, M., I., 34

D’Épinay, Mme., and Rousseau, II., 285

Désaugiers, his lines on the Palais Royal, I., 167

Desault, Dr., attends the “Dauphin” in the Temple, I., 71

Desmoulins, Camille, plucking leaves in the Palais Royal gardens, I., 2, 48;
his call to arms, 47;
and the attack on the Bastille, 51, 109;
his execution, 150;
as a student, 357;
his pamphlet, “La Lanterne,” II., 30

D’Étaples, Lefèvre, his Reformation doctrines, I., 286; II., 36

Deux Mondes, Club des, I., 126

Diana of France and the Hôtel Lamoignon, I., 68, 309

Diderot, burial-place, I., 159; II., 246;
early life in Paris, 242;
love affairs, 243;
imprisonment in the Château de Vincennes, 244;
and Rousseau, 244;
and the “Encyclopædia,” 245;
and Catherine II., 246

Diocre, Raimond, Funeral in Notre-Dame of, I., 13

Diplomatists as agents for operatic celebrities, I., 74

Dog-fighting, I., 335

Doge of Genoa, visit to Paris, I., 3

Domes of Paris, The, I., 5

Domestic servants, II., 20-23

Dominicans, Convent of, II., 238

Donizetti’s operas, I., 135

Dorval, Mme., at Porte Saint-Martin Theatre, I., 92, 182

Dramas, place where first acted, I., 2;
performed in Notre-Dame, 19;
under the Reign of Terror, 88

Dramatic censorship, II., 181-184

Dramatic Critics’ Club, I., 103

Drawing, School of, II., 106

Dress in Paris, I., 10

Druot, Hôtel, II., 256

Dubois, Cardinal, Anecdote of, I., 114; II., 22

Ducamp, M. Maxime, his statistics of prisons, II., 144

Duels:
at Vincennes, I., 59, 61-63;
in the Place Royale, 69, 349;
ancient compared with modern, 345;
ancient regulations, 346;
judicial, 346;
in the sixteenth century, 347, 348;
between ladies, 349;
causes, 349;
notable cases, 350, 351;
anecdotes, 353, 354;
of journalists, II., 272, 273

Dugazon in the _Marriage of Figaro_, I., 45

Dumas, the elder, Alexandre, fights a duel with Gaillardet, I., 63;
his answers to a judge, 63;
performance of his _Antony_, 181, 182

Dumouriez and the conspiracy against the life of the First Consul, I., 60

Dupin, M., farmer-general, and the Hôtel Lambert, I., 291

Duplessis, Marie, and the _Dame aux Camélias_, I., 130;
her death, 131

Dupuis, the actor, I., 84

Dupuytren, Dr., and the assassination of the Duke of Berri, I., 90, 91; II., 250

Duval, Alexander, I., 177

Duveyrier, dramatist, I., 119;
his imprisonment, 120

École Militaire, I., 230

Edgeworth, Abbé, his account of the last moments and execution of Louis XVI., I., 146-150;
his account of his flight from Paris, &c., II., 298-300;
letter from Louis XVIII., 301, 302;
fidelity to the royal family and his death, 302

Edict of Nantes, its concessions, II., 41;
its revocation, I., 3; II., 42

Education, II., 44-53

Égalité, Philippe, his execution, I., 150;
voting for the death of Louis XVI., 151; II., 234;
and the Palais Royal, I., 166;
and the Breton Club, I., 162

Eiffel Tower, The, I., 238, 239

Electric cafés, I., 108

Eloi, St., Church of, I., 284

Élysée Palace, I., 218, 219

Emigration, The, II., 295-303

Empereur Joseph, Hôtel, II., 109

“Encyclopædia,” The, consigned to the Bastille by Louis XV., I., 55, 125;
and Diderot, II., 245

Enfantin, Le Père, head of the Saint-Simonians, I., 119;
his prosecution and imprisonment, 120;
his memoirs, 290

English in Paris, The:
a picture in _Punch_, II., 9;
contrasted with the French in London, 10;
traits drawn by M. Lemoinne, 10, 11;
manners of ladies, 11;
interest in religious matters, 11;
dress of women, 12

English dining-places and hotels in Paris, I., 123

Epileptics, Treatment of, II., 214

Escapes of prisoners, II., 141, 142

Étienne, Robert, his editions of the Scriptures, II., 178, 179

Étienne-du-Mont, St., Church of, II., 66

Eugène III., Pope, and the dispute at the church of Saint-Geneviève, II., 59

Eugène, du Prince, Boulevard, I., 302

Eustace, St., Church of, I., 5, 314, 315

Executioner of Lyons, The, and the slaughter of Huguenots, I., 27

Executioner, Public: salary and dress, I., 39, 331;
at the theatre, 88;
in early times, 330;
perquisites, 330, 331;
“Monsieur de Paris,” 331;
beheading dummies, 331;
sometimes physicians, 332;
incident of Victor of Nîmes, 332

Executions outside La Roquette prison, II., 134

Exhibitions, Universal, I., 224, 236-239

Eyck, Van, Picture at the Palais de Justice by, I., 256

Fabroni, the magician, I., 17

Fagon, Dr., and his administration of the Jardin des Plantes, II., 147

Fairs, II., 308

Famines in Paris, I., 3; II., 311, 313

Fargeau, Lepelletier St., his assassination, II., 234

Farmers-General, The, I., 7

Favart, Charles Simon, and his performances before the army, I., 118

Favart, Mme., and the Salle Favart, I., 117;
and Marshal Saxe, 118

Feast of Reason, I., 15

Fencing schools, II., 257-259

Férier, Jean, a leader in the massacre of the Huguenots, I., 27

Ferrières, Château of Baron do Rothschild at, I., 339

Fersen, Count de, and the flight of Louis XVI., I., 211

Feuillants, I., 162

Fieschi, his attempt on the life of Louis Philippe, I., 76-78; II., 112-114;
guillotined, I., 79;
his mistress exhibited at a café, 83

Filles de la Mère-Dieu, Les, Convent of, II., 139

Fine Arts, School of, II., 175, 176

Fiorentino, Paolo, his duel with Achard, I., 61

Fire Brigade, its organisation, I., 270

Fire-arms in the Artillery Museum, II., 87, 88

Fireworks, Duke of Berri alarmed by, I., 144, 145;
accident at a display of, 146

Flamel, Nicholas, librarian to the University of Paris, I., 283;
his house, II., 158

Flesselles, De, Provost of Paris, I., 48, 243

Flollo and his duel with King Arthur, I., 277

Flower-girls, II., 7

Flower-market, in the Place de la République, I., 84;
in the Place de la Madeleine, 142;
in the Place Saint-Sulpice, 173

Folies Dramatiques Theatre, I., 85

Folies Saint-Germain Theatre, II., 89

Fontaine, La, and his mock duel, I., 354

Food, Supply of, II., 310-315

Footman, A speculative, I., 295

Force, Caumont de la, attempts to bribe assassins on St. Bartholomew’s Day, I., 26;
and the grocer’s shop, 295

Force, La, prison, and recalcitrant actresses, I., 56, 58; II., 210

Fort l’Évêque, I., 56

Fortifications of Paris, planned by M. Thiers, I., 7, 8;
their arming in 1870, II., 348

Fortress of John the Fearless, I., 318

Fortunatus, Venantius, and the glass windows of Notre-Dame, I., 14

Fouché and his spy system, I., 274; II., 18

Fould, M. Achille, I., 192

Foundlings, Home for, II., 102

Fountain, in the Place de la République, I., 84;
of the Innocents, 312

Fouquet, Superintendent of Finances, imprisoned in the Bastille, I., 47

Foy, Café, I., 109, 110

Fragonard, artist, decorates the Temple of Terpsichore, I., 128

Français, Théâtre, I., 11, 44-46, 111

Francis I., Cost of obsequies of, I., 98;
his dislike of printed books, 187;
his collection of MSS., 189;
and the Louvre, 195;
and the Château de Madrid, 222;
lays first stone of the Hôtel de Ville, 242;
and the burning of Protestants, 287;
secret rendezvous, II., 158

Francis II., and the Louvre, I., 195;
and the persecution of Protestants, II., 38

Franconi takes over Astley’s Circus in Paris, I., 74

Francs-tireurs, I., 66; II., 351, 352

Frascati’s gambling-house, I., 104-106

Frederick the Great, and the importance of Paris as a capital, I., 1;
and his knowledge of the French language, 36

French in London, The, II., 10

Fréron on the luxurious life of dramatic authors, I., 175

Frescoes in the church of Saint-Eustache, I., 315

Frogs, Eating, II., 167, 168

Fulton, Robert, and his panoramas, I., 103

Funerals, Royal, I., 98-102, 314; II., 94-99

Furniture in the Cluny Museum, II., 82

Gabriel, architect for the completion of the Louvre, I., 199

Gaillardet, M., fights a duel with Alexandre Dumas the elder, I., 63

Gaieté Theatre, I., 302, 303

Gaiety, National, II., 24;
anecdotes of, 24-27

Gambetta, his monument, I., 217

Gambling, at the gambling-house of Frascati, I., 104-106;
at the Palais Royal, 167

Garamond, Claude, II., 178

Gardens, of Frascati’s gambling-house, I., 106;
of the Luxemburg, II., 130

Garnier, Charles, architect of the New Opéra, I., 138

Gassendi, his burial-place, I., 299

Gautier, Théophile, his residence, I., 291

Gavaudin, Mlle., opera-singer, sent to prison, I., 58

General Post Office, and Lavalette, I., 318-321;
adoption and circulation of postcards, 322;
organisation, 321, 322

Geneviève, Ste., Church of, I., 10; II., 59, 62;
Hill of, I., 3, 10;
jest of the Abbé of, I., 99

Genius and madness, II., 211

Georges, Mlle., at Porte Saint-Martin Theatre, I., 92

Geoffroy Lasnier, Rue, I., 290

Gérard, the assassin of the Prince of Orange, I., 79

Germain, St., Market of, II., 171

Germain l’Auxerrois, St., Church of;
and the massacre of St. Bartholomew, I., 2, 22, 26;
and the marriage of the Duc de Joyeuse and Marguerite of Lorraine, 27;
and the excommunication of the Emperor Frederick, II., 29

Germain-des-Prés, St., Church of, I., 7;
antiquity and origin, II., 170;
history, 170, 171;
monastery attached to it, 171

Gibbet, The, II., 315

Girardin, De, kills Armand Carrel in a duel, I., 62;
visits Carrel’s grave, 63, 352

Girls corrupted at St. Lazare, II., 144

Girondists, Hall of the, I., 263

Gluck, his arrival in Paris, I., 135

Gobelins, The:
origin, II., 225;
articles produced, and the directors, 226;
tapestry, 226-228;
and M. Chevreuil, 228;
masterpieces, 228

Good Shepherd, Convent of the, II., 102

Gordon, Mme., and Louis Napoleon’s Strasburg expedition, I., 95

Güritz, Bourbons buried at, I., 100; II., 97

Goujon, Jean, sculptor of the Louvre, I., 195, 310, 312

Gounod’s operas, I., 138

Government offices, II., 237

Grand Cercle, The, I., 111

Grand Châtelet, The, I., 291, 292

Grand Prix, I., 226

Grandjean, surgeon to Louis XVI., I., 72

Granier, Mlle. Jeanne, I., 93

Graveron, Mme. de, her execution, I., 287

Greasy pole, Climbing the, I., 226

Grenier-sur-l’eau, Rue, I., 291

Gribeauval, General de, creator of modern artillery, II., 83

Grimm on the first performances of the _Marriage of Figaro_, I., 44;
and Diderot, II., 245, 246

Gros-Chenet, Rue du, place of burning for sorcerers, I., 3

“Guardian Angels,” II., 260

Guénégaud Theatre, I., 174

Guilds, I., 300, 301

Guillotine:
its introduction, I., 4, 327;
in the Place de la Revolution, 146;
its victims during the Reign of Terror, 150;
its inventor, 327;
subject of a song, 328;
and Dr. Louis, 328, 329;
its first victims, 329;
various sites, 329;
as a toy, 329;
improvements, 330;
the executioner, 330-332;
burial-place of victims, 333;
shed where first experiments were made, II., 108

Guimard, Madeleine, mass at Notre-Dame for her broken arm, I., 19;
and the fire at Porte Saint-Martin Opera House, 86;
her Temple of Terpsichore, 127

Guise, Duke of, and the massacre of St. Bartholomew, I., 22, 26;
and the murder of Coligny, 24

Guise and Coligny, Quarrels between the houses of, I., 349

Guttenberg, Statue of, I., 307

Gymnase Theatre:
opened under the patronage of the Duchess of Berri, I., 103;
notable productions, 103

Hackney coaches, I., 262; II., 1, 2, 30, 31

Halles, The, site of, I., 2

Handel and the overtures of De Maurepas for performances in Paris, I., 74

Hanging for felony, I., 327

Haussmann, Baron, restores the Musée Carnavalet, I., 67, 310

Hawkers of books, I., 125

Haye, M. de la, and the Hôtel Lambert, I., 291

Heart of St. Louis, The, I., 102

Hearts of Kings, Preservation of, I., 102; II., 91

Heaume, Hôtel du, I., 315

Hébert, M., and the Opéra under the Republic, I., 88

“Hedge Schools,” I., 287

Heine, Heinrich, I., 1;
his letters on Paris and other works, II., 292;
his satire, 293;
on Victor Hugo and Rothschild, 294

Henri, the historian, burial-place, I., 299

Henriot, M., and the Opéra under the Republic, I., 88

Henry II. mortally wounded in the Rue Saint-Antoine, I., 2, 68;
and his library, 190;
and the Louvre, 195;
his Protestant victims, 286; II., 38;
and duelling, I., 347

Henry III., name erased from the prayers of the Church, I., 16;
and the marriage of Duc de Joyeuse and Margaret of Lorraine, 27, 28;
lays first stone of Pont-Neuf, 30;
his murder by Jacques Clèment, 76

Henry IV., statue on the Pont-Neuf, I., 3, 31;
chief of the Protestant party when Prince of Béarn, 22;
and the Pont-Neuf, 31;
character and assassination of, 31, 34;
his monument destroyed and afterwards re-erected, 35;
his burial-place, 100;
and duelling, 349

Henry VI. of England crowned King of France in Notre-Dame, I., 15

Henry of Prussia, Prince, and Mlle. Contat, I., 36

Heralds, their proclamations in ancient times, I., 3

Hermits of Saint-William, I., 306

_Hernani_, its first production, I., 179-181

Hérouard, Dr., and the Jardin des Plantes, II., 147

Hilaire, Geoffroy St., and the Jardin des Plantes, II., 150

Holy Sepulchre, Convent of the, I., 314

Homes and Retreats for the indigent, II., 331

Horn, Count, I., 298

Horse-market in the park of the Hôtel des Tournelles, I., 69

Hospice de la Reconnaissance, II., 331

Hospital:
(Hôtel) Dieu, I., 278-280;
for incurables, II., 195;
for sick children, 196;
de la Charité, 204-206;
La Pitié, 206

Hospitals, their administration, I., 276;
system, II., 193-195;
funds, 204

Hôtel:
de Beauvais, I., 283;
Carnavalet, I., 310; II., 160;
du Cheval Blanc, II., 108;
Choiseul, I., 126;
Cluny, II., 73;
Continental, I., 158;
Corneille, II., 109;
Drouet, 256;
l’Empereur Joseph, II., 109;
du Heaume, I., 315;
Lambert, I., 291;
Lamoignon, I., 68, 309;
St. Lomenie de Brienne et Loutrec, II., 177, 237, 238;
St. Paul, II., 158;
de Ranes, II., 174;
du Rhin, I., 158;
de Rohan, I., 304;
de Salm, II., 236, 237;
de Sens, I., 35; II., 158;
de Soissons, I., 318;
de Soubise, I., 304;
de Torpane, II., 160

Hôtel-Dieu:
its founder, I., 278;
its rebuilding, cost, accommodation, &c., 278;
and the Dames Augustines, 279;
as described by Mercier, 279, 280

Hôtel des Invalides:
arms seized by insurgents, I., 50;
opinion of Montesquieu, II., 185;
history, 185, 186;
edict of Henry IV., 186;
the edict of 1870, 186;
and Louis XIV. and Mme. de Maintenon, 187;
visit of Peter the Great, 188;
jokes of the inmates, 188, 189;
Napoleon and the anniversary of the taking of the Bastille, 190;
characteristics of the pensioners, 190, 191;
triumphal battery and tomb of Napoleon, 192

Hôtel de Ville:
its history, I., 242-249;
destroyed by the Commune, 242; II., 359;
attack of 1830, I., 244;
balls and entertainments, 247;
reconstructed, 247;
and the administration of municipal affairs, 248, 249;
and the administration of hospitals, 276

Houssaye, Arsène, and the Académie Française, I., 38

Huberti, Mme. St., I., 135, 322-324;
her assassination, 325, 326

Hugo, Victor, and the tower of Saint-Jacques-de-la-Boucherie, I., 5;
and Marion de Lorme, 69;
first production of his _Hernani_, 179-181;
his dramatic works, 181;
recites his first poems at the Arsenal Library, 290;
and the Tower of Vertbois, 302;
his remains deposited in the Panthéon, II., 64;
childhood, 90;
and Lemaître at the Bonne Nouvelle Bazaar, I., 103

Huguenots:
fired upon by Charles IX., I., 2; II., 40;
number massacred throughout France, I., 27;
continued persecution, II., 41, 42.
(See also Protestants)

Hulio takes charge of De Launay, Governor of the Bastille, I., 51

“Hymen, Temple of,” I., 299

Hypnotism and the cure of madness, II., 211

Idiots, Treatment of, II., 214

Immorality, Laws against, II., 143

Imperial Club, I., 140

Imperial Theatre of the Châtelet, I., 76

Industrial Exhibitions, I., 236

Industrial system, I., 236

Infanta of Spain and her _fiancé_, I., 197

Inquisition, The, and the Waldenses, I., 42

Institute of Paris, I., 10;
its academies, 37, 38; II., 288;
opinion of Renan, 53, 54;
unique character and objects of its projectors, 53, 54;
constitution, 54, 55;
library, 55, 290;
reconstitution by the National Convention, 290

Institution Ste. Périne, II., 331

Insurrection against Julius Cæsar, I., 6;
of June, 1832, against Louis Philippe, 93, 94; II., 247-249

“Internationale,” The, II., 355

Isabelle, Princess, and the Abbey of Longchamp, I., 219

Island of Saint-Louis, I., 291

Italian actors invited to Paris by Henri III., and afterwards expelled, I., 115-117

Italian children, Trade in, II., 328-330

Italian prisoner declines to leave the Bastille, I., 99

Italiens, Boulevard des, I., 11, 43, 115-127

Italiens, Théâtre des, I., 117

Ivan the Terrible, and torturing criminals, I., 18

Ivories in the Hôtel Cluny, II., 77

Jacobin Club, I., 162-165

Jacobins:
monastery, I., 161;
their principles, 162;
Chateaubriand’s opinion of them, 163;
and M. l’Abbé Maury, 163, 164;
Michelet’s opinion, 162

Jacques-la-Boucherie, St., Tower of, I., 283

Jacques aux Pelerins, St., Asylum of, I., 314

Janin, Jules, I., 10;
at the Café Riche, 122;
his satirical novel, 335

Jansenists in the Bastille, I., 46

Jardin des Plantes:
popularity, originators, first design, and the administration of Fagon, II., 147;
under Buffon, 148, 149;
at the Revolution, 149;
extensions, 149, 150;
enthusiasm of travellers and professors, 150;
general arrangement, 150-154;
menagerie, 152;
wax-work collection, 153;
busts and masks of famous men, 154

Jarnac, his duel with Chateigneraie, I., 347

Jarnac, Battle of, I., 22

Jena Bridge, II., 33

Jensae, De, his duel with two adversaries, I., 347, 348

Jerome, Prince, and the Palais Royal, I., 168

Jesuits and prisoners in the Bastille, I., 99;
and the Church of St. Louis and St. Paul, 284;
and the University, II., 46

Jews, roasted at la Maubuée, I., 3;
during the Crusades, II., 62

Joan of Arc, unpopularity with Parisians, I., 2, 159;
at the siege of Paris, and her execution, 159;
denounced by a monk, 159, 160;
personated, 160;
and the Sorbonne, II., 50

Jockey Club, I., 111, 139

John the Fearless, and the assassination of the Duke of Orleans, II., 158

Jonathan, the Jew, Legend of, I., 304

Joseph, Father, and the spy system, I., 272

Josephine, Empress, her coronation at Notre-Dame, I., 21

Jouffroi Passage, I., 111

_Journal of Henry III._, and the talisman of Catherine de Médicis, I., 16

Journalists, Leading, II., 270-273

Joyeuse, Duc de, Marriage of, I., 27

Jugglers, II., 327

Julian, Emperor, and his enthusiasm for Lutetia, I., 7

Julien, Saint, Assassination of, I., 35

Julius Cæsar, Insurrection against, I., 6

Jullien at the Café Turc, I., 80

Just, Saint, his execution, I., 151

Kaufmann, Angelica, I., 298

Kings, Hearts of, their preservation, I., 102; II., 91

Kirburg, Prince Frederic John Otho von Salm, his palace and his execution, II., 236

Labienus, and the insurrection against Julius Cæsar, I., 6

Labour, Compulsory, in prisons, II., 146

Lacépède, and the Jardin des Plantes, II., 150

Lackeys, II., 20, 22

Lacroix, Paul, librarian at the Arsenal, I., 290

Ladies’-maids, II., 22

Lafayette, General, I., 94;
and the flight of Louis XVI., 211;
at the national celebration in the Champ de Mars, 232;
place of burial, 333;
and the mob at Versailles, II., 346, 347;
and the Breton Club, I., 162

Laffitte, M., I., 94;
and the story of the pin, 336;
and the story of his loan to a gamester, 336, 337;
Minister of Finance and President of the Council, 337

Lallemand, the student, Death of, I., 358, 359

Lally-Tollendal, Execution of, I., 47, 282

Lamalle, Execution of, I., 17

Lamarck, and the Jardin des Plantes, II., 150

Lamarque, General, Funeral of, and the Republican insurrection, I., 94

Lamartine and the mob, I., 244

Lamballe, Princesse de, I., 313

Lambert, Hôtel, I., 219

Lameth and the Breton Club, I., 162

Lamotte, Countess, and the “affair of the diamond necklace,” II., 345

Lamoignon Hôtel, its former and present occupants, I., 68

Lamoureux, M., I., 76

L’Arbre, Rue de, I., 4, 327

Larive, in the _Marriage of Figaro_, I., 45

Lasource condemned to death, I., 151

Lassay, Marchioness de, II., 210

Lassus, M., and Notre-Dame, I., 14

Latournelle Bridge, II., 34

Latude, Story of, II., 214-218;
his liberation from the Bastille, I., 50

Launay, M., and the statue of Napoleon on the Vendôme Column, I., 156

Launay, De, and his defence of the Bastille, I., 50, 51

Lavalette, M. de:
early life and connection with the post office, I., 318;
arrested for high treason, and saved from death by his wife, 318-320

Law, John Lauriston, his financial speculations in Paris, I., 294, 295;
his work for France, and his pictorial advertisements, 296, 297;
his emigration scheme, II., 325

Law, Changes in the, I., 253, 254

Lawlessness of Parisians in ancient times, I., 3; II., 60

Lazare, St., Prison, I., 64; II., 131;
formerly a leper hospital, 142;
under the canons of St. Victor and St. Vincent de Paul, 142;
becomes a house of correction, and is sacked during famine, 142;
and André Chenier, 142;
vastness, 142;
inmates, 143

Learning under the Convention, I., 90

Lebrun, the painter, and the Louvre, I., 198

Lecouvreur, Adrienne, Supposed poisoning of, I., 3, 182, 183;
burial of, 58, 183; II., 175

Legion of Honour, Palace of the, II., 237

Legislative Assembly of 1791, II., 233

Legouvé, M., on the art of fencing, II., 257, 258

Legris, Jacques, Case of, and judicial duels, I., 346

Legros, Mme., and her efforts on behalf of Latude, II., 214, 217, 218

Lemaître, Frédéric, in _Robert Macaire_, I., 85;
in the _Auberge des Adréts_, 86;
at Porte Saint-Martin Theatre, 92;
at the Théâtre des Variétés, 104;
and Victor Hugo at the Bonne Nouvelle Bazaar, 103

Lemoinne, M., on the English in Paris, II., 10-12

Lenclos, Ninon de, and her rooms in the Boulevard Beaumarchais, I., 67

Lenglet-Dufresnoy, Abbé, employed as a spy by Louis XIV. and Prince Eugène, I., 275

Léo, M. André, on Americans in Paris, II., 12-15

Leopold, M., and the Folies Dramatiques Theatre, I., 85

L’Épée, Abbé de, founder of the Deaf and Dumb Institution, II., 89, 90, 199, 202;
his monument in the church of St. Roch, 203

Lepers, Proclamation for extermination of, I., 3;
asylum for, 219;
shut off in churches, 267;
at St. Lazare, II., 142

Lescot, Pierre, architect of the Louvre, I., 195;
and the Fountain of the Innocents, 312

Lesueur, his picture of an incident in Notre-Dame, I., 14

L’Étoile, Arc de, I., 58

_Lettres de Cachet_, I., 50, 63;
and opera-singers, 89, 99;
and the spy system, 273; II., 17

Leu-Saint-Gilles, St., Church of, I., 312-314

L’Évêque, Fort, State prison, I., 56

Lézardière, Baron, and Abbé Edgeworth, II., 298

L’Hôpital, Marshal de, and his marriage, I., 322

Liancourt, Duc de, and Louis XVI. after the fall of the Bastille, I., 52

Librairie Nouvelle, I., 123, 124

Libraries, Circulating, I., 123;
public, 187-191

Library, National, I., 86, 87, 187, 189-191;
Arsenal, 290;
in the Hôtel de Pimodan, 291;
of the Institute, II., 55;
Sainte-Geneviève, 65, 66;
in the School of Mines, 167

Lighting of Paris, II., 28

_L’Île de la Cité_, I., 6, 249

L’illustre Theatre, II., 291

Littéraire, Café, I., 107, 108

Liszt, Abbé, I., 315

Locke interests himself in an opera-singer, I., 74

Lombards, College and chapel of the, II., 71

Lomenie de Brienne et Loutrec, Hôtel, II., 177, 237, 238

London contrasted with Paris, I., 9

Longchamp, Abbey of, I., 219-221;
promenade, 221

L’Opéra, Place de, I., 133

Loriquet, Father, as an historian, II., 250, 251

Lorme, Marion de, and her residence in the Place Royale, I., 69

L’Orme, Philibert de, and the church of Saint Eustace, I., 5

Lorraine, Cardinal de, and the massacre of St. Bartholomew, I., 22

Losme, De, major of the Bastille, I., 52

Louis VI. and the right of clergy to fight duels, I., 346

Louis VII., his offence against the Chapter of Notre Dame, I., 12, 13;
and the lepers, II., 142

Louis IX. and the Louvre, I., 194

Louis XI. borrowing a book from the Faculty of Medicine, I., 13;
his coronation, 314

Louis XII., his library, I., 187

Louis XIII., his statue erected by Richelieu, I., 69, 70;
his funeral, 99;
and the Palais Royal, 166;
and the Royal Printing Office, 307;
and the Jardin des Plantes, II., 147;
and Versailles, 338

Louis XIV., Statue of, I., 2;
proscribes Gothic architecture, 5;
and the burial of Molière, 58, 111;
and opera-singers, 89;
his funeral, 99; II., 94;
and the Italian actors, I., 117;
and the licence for masked balls, 139;
presents the Palais Royal to Philip of Orleans, 166;
and the Louvre, 197-199;
his collection of pictures, 201, 202;
and duelling, 350;
and disabled soldiers, II., 187;
and Versailles, 338

Louis XV. consigns the Encyclopædia to the Bastille, I., 55;
stabbed by Damiens, 76;
his conduct compared with that of the Duke of Berri, 91;
his funeral, 99; II., 95;
and the Madeleine, I., 142;
his statue, 143, 144;
and the Comédie Française, 175;
and the Royal Military School, 229;
founds the Church of Sainte-Geneviève, II., 62;
and the beggars, 326

Louis XVI. confined in the Rue du Temple, I., 2, 70;
after the capture of the Bastille, 52;
his mild government, 55;
flight from Paris, 87, 211;
reputed burial-place, 100;
his execution, 146, 147-150;
brought back to the Tuileries, 214;
and the celebration in the Champ de Mars, 231, 232;
his trial, II., 234;
and Versailles, 345

Louis XVII., his life in the Temple and death, I., 70;
the supposition that he escaped from the Temple and lived till 1872, 70, 71;
his reputed burial-place, 100

Louis XVIII. inaugurates the new statue of Henry IV., I., 35;
and the burial of Mlle. Raucourt, 58;
and the murder of the Duke of Berri, 90;
obsequies of, II., 96, 99;
and the Madeleine, I., 142;
and the pictures in the Louvre, 204;
and the dungeon of Marie Antoinette, 263;
and Lavalette, 318, 320;
and the Abbé Edgeworth, II., 302

Louis Napoleon, Prince, his two attempts to secure the throne, I., 95-97; II., 116-123;
his trial at the Luxemburg, 123, 124.
(See also Napoleon III.)

Louis-Philippe:
abdication and flight, I., 2, 3;
fortifications constructed under, 7;
lays first stone of the monument in the Place de la Bastille, 59;
military glories of his reign, 75;
Fieschi’s attempt upon his life, 76-79; II., 112-114;
his _sang-froid_, I., 78;
insurrection of June, 1832, against him, 93, 94;
his burial-place, 100;
unveils the new statue of Napoleon on the Vendôme Column, 156;
and the Palais Royal, 167, 168;
and the Élysée Palace, 218;
and the Arc de Triomphe, 225;
and Talleyrand, II., 241

Louis-Philippe Bridge, II., 34

Louis, Dr., and the guillotine, I., 328, 329

Louis le Gros and the Palais de Justice, I., 250

Louis, St.:
funeral, I., 98;
preservation of his heart, 102; II., 91;
effigy in the Palais de Justice, I., 260;
and Blanche de Castille, I., 267

Louis, St., Bridge, I., 34

Louis, St., Island of, II., 34

Louis, St., and St. Paul, Church of, and a picture by Eugène Delacroix, I., 284

Louvel, assassin of the Duke of Berri, I., 90, 91;
his trial, II., 114-116

Lovat, Lord, Decapitation of, and George Selwyn, I., 18

Louviers, Island of, II., 34

Louvre, The:
origin, I., 193;
reconstructed by Philip Augustus, 194;
the Tower, 194;
additions made by Louis IX. and Charles X., 194;
historical events, 194, 195;
its architect and alterations by Catherine de Médicis, 195;
royal residents, 196, 197;
extensions, under Louis XIV., 198;
its picture-gallery, 199, 201-206;
completed by Napoleon III., 200

Lucas, Hippolyte, librarian at the Arsenal, I., 290

Lulli’s operas, I., 127, 135

Lunatic asylums, II., 207-214, 223-225

Lunatics, Prison for, I., 63;
their treatment at various periods, 207, 208;
number in France, 209

Lunge, The brothers, I., 111

Lutetia, the Paris of the Romans, I., 3;
its position and development, 6;
rebuilt and governed as a Roman town, 6;
and the Emperor Julian, 7;
governed by bishops, besieged by Franks, and invaded by Normans, 7;
an island, 7;
its church and palace, 249;
and the hot baths, II., 73

Lutheran Church, I., 304

Luxemburg Palace, I., 10;
its originator and various owners, II., 111;
becomes the Senate or Chamber of Peers, 112;
celebrated trials, 112;
trial of Fieschi, 112-114;
trial of Louvel, 114-116;
trial of Louis Napoleon, 116-124;
and the case of Praslio, 124, 129;
the gardens and picture-gallery, 130

Luxor, Obelisk of, I., 154

Lyceum of Louis the Great, II., 59

Lyons, Number of Huguenots killed at, I., 27;
incidents of the massacre of Huguenots, 27

Machines, Exhibition of, I., 301, 302

MacMahon, Marshal, II., 358

Madeleine, The, its architecture, I., 11, 142;
its history, decorations, preachers, &c., 142, 143

Madeleine, Boulevard, I., 43, 142

Magic, Burning for the crime of, I., 15

Magicians in Paris, I., 16, 17;
patronised by Catherine de Médicis, 42

Magloire, St., Abbey of, I., 314

Magny Restaurant, II., 108

Maintenon, Mme. de, satirised by Italian actors, I., 116;
and disabled soldiers, II., 187;
and the Tsar, 344

Maison Dorée, La, I., 122, 123

Maison de Villas, II., 331

Malesherbes, M. de, and the execution of Louis XVI., I., 147;
his monument in the Palais de Justice, 258

Malle de Scudéry, novelist, I., 299

Man in the iron mask, I., 284

Mandelot, Governor of Lyons, and the massacre of Huguenots, I., 27

Maniaut, Du, and Porte Saint-Martin Theatre, I., 92

Mansard, the architect, I., 67;
and the Place Vendôme, 155;
and the Val de Grâce, II., 90

Manteuffel, Baron Ernest von, and _Les deux Pages_, I., 36

Maps, School of, I., 305

Maquet, Auguste, I., 303

Mara, Mme., I., 135

Marais, The, its illustrious residents, I., 67

Marais, Rue des, I., 3, 67

Marais, Théâtre du, I., 174; II., 110

Marat, I., 151;
disposal of his remains, II., 106;
editor of _Ami du Peuple_, 109

Marble Table, Theatre of the, I., 250, 252

Marcel, Étienne, Mayor of Paris, I., 242;
builds the Bastille, 286

Marcellus, Bishop, I., 14

Marchaud, Guillaume, architect and builder of Pont-Neuf, I., 31

Marché, Rue du, I., 161

Marché des Innocents, Rue du, Events associated with, I., 3

Margaret of Navarre, Queen, and the preaching of Protestants, I., 287; II., 38

Marguerite of Lorraine, Marriage of, I., 27

Marguerite de Valois and her lovers, I., 35; II., 159

Marie Antoinette confined in the Rue du Temple, I., 2, 70;
at a notable performance at the Académie Royale de Musique, 87;
insulted at the Opéra Comique, 87;
marriage, 144;
her execution, 150;
carries her son into the Assembly, 207;
in the Conciergerie, 263;
affair of the necklace, 307; II., 345

Marie de Médicis and her belief in magic, I., 17;
and the Luxemburg Palace, II., 111

Marie Bridge, II., 34

Marigny, Avenue, I., 223, 224

Market:
in the Place de la République, I., 84;
in the Place de la Madeleine, 142;
Temple, 303, 304;
Innocents, 312;
Corn, 314, 318;
Fish, 315; II., 316;
Ave Maria, I., 290;
of St. Germain, II., 171

Markets, Central, I., 314, 315-318; II., 166, 167, 315, 316

Marly, II., 339, 340

Marne, River, II., 287

Marot, Clément, his translation of the Psalms, I., 287; II., 38

Marriage of Duc de Joyeuse and Marguerite of Lorraine at the Church of St.-Germain-l’Auxerrois, I., 27

_Marriage of Figaro_, I., 44-46, 179;
its effect on the public mind, 67

Mars, Mlle., I., 103;
in _Hernani_, 181, 183;
and Mlle. Rachel, 298

Martin, St., Boulevard, I., 93

Martin, St., Porte, I., 93, 98

Masked balls, I., 139

Massacre of St. Bartholomew and the bell of St.-Germain-l’Auxerrois, I., 2, 9, 289;
its authors, 22, 289;
preparations, 23;
murder of Coligny, 24, 289

Massenet’s operas, I., 138

Maubuée, La, Jews roasted at, I., 3

Maurevel fires at Admiral Coligny, I., 23

Maury, M. l’Abbé, his oration in defence of the Parliament, I., 163, 164

Mazarin, and Count de Rochefort, I., 37;
and the introduction of opera into France, 74, 116;
his project for establishing a college, II., 289

Mazarin Library, I., 191

Mazarin Palais, II., 288

Mazas, Prison of, I., 261; II., 131;
construction, and riots of first inmates, 137;
and the cellular system, 137, 138;
sanitation, régime, and administration, 138

Medicine, School of, and practical school, II., 106, 107

Mendicancy, II., 324-330

Ménilmontant, I., 335

Mercier, his description of the Pont-Neuf, I., 36, 37;
on the Académie Française, 37, 38;
description of public executioner, 39;
on the political indifference of Parisians, and the mild government of Louis XVI., 54, 55;
on hackney coaches, 262;
on the spy system, 271, 272;
on the Hôtel-Dieu, 279-281;
on the Mont-de-Piété, 306;
views on the Sorbonne, II., 52, 53;
on the Panthéon, 64

Méry at the Café de la Régence, I., 109

Méry, St., Church of, I., 93, 293, 294

Meyerbeer, his _Robert le Diable_, I., 135

Michelet on the Jacobins, I., 162

Middle Ages:
curiosities of the period in the Cluny Museum, II., 78;
arms and armour in the Artillery Museum, 86, 87;
burning of lunatics, 207

Mignard, the painter, I., 159

Mignons, The, their contest with the partisans of the Duke of Guise, I., 69

Mignot, François Marie, I., 322

Military School, Site of old, I., 127

Military spectacles in circuses and theatres, I., 75

Mille, Laurent de, and the assassination of a banker in the Rue de Venise, I., 298

Mineralogy, Museum of, II., 130

Ministry of Justice, I., 158

Mirabeau:
his motion in the Assembly on July 8th, 1789, I., 47;
his death, 163;
place of burial, II., 63;
letters from the Bastille to “Sophie,” 139, 279;
early life, marriage, and imprisonment, 279;
captivity at Vincennes, and visit to Prussia, 280;
his “Secret History,” and “Prussian Monarchy,” 281;
political life, relations with the Court, and his death, 282;
and the Breton Club, I., 162

Miraille, Dominique, burnt for the crime of magic, I., 15

Miramion, Madame Beauharnais de, and her house of refuge for girls, II., 138

Mirlitons Club, I., 140

Miron, François, his offering of a silver lamp in Notre-Dame, I., 15

Molay, Jacques de, burned on the Pont-Neuf, I., 3, 276

Molé, in the _Marriage of Figaro_, I., 45

Molière, birthplace, I., 2, 322;
death and burial, 2, 58, 111, 112;
residence, 111;
benevolent act of his widow, 112;
his borrowing from the Italians, 117;
as represented by Scarron, 173, 174;
estrangement from Racine, 174;
joins a troop of wandering players, 174;
imprisoned for debt, 290;
his Scottish descent, 315;
and the Val de Grâce, II., 91

Molière Theatre, I., 296

Momus, Café, I., 110, 111

Monastery of the Jacobins, I., 161

Monceau, Parc, I., 344

Monks and duelling, I., 346

Montalivet, M. de, his interview with Napoleon, I., 291

Montansier, Mlle., I., 86, 183

Mont-de-Piété, I., 305, 306;
external appearance, II., 160;
internal arrangements, 161;
Alfred Delvau’s description of the borrowers, 162;
its founder, 163;
description by M. Blaize, 163-166

Montesquieu shoots the Prince of Condé, I., 22;
his interest in opera-singers, 74

Montgomery kills Henri II. in a tournament, I., 68

Montlhéry, Battle of, I., 43, 144

Montmartre, Boulevard, in former times, I., 2, 104, 113;
Butte, 340, 342;
Cemetery, 342;
observatory, 342;
and the church of St. Peter, 342;
and the Frascati gaming-house, 104-106

Montmorency, Constable de, Hotel built by, I., 290

Montparnasse, its associations and occupants, II., 250-253

Montparnasse Theatre, II., 250

Monument to the Republic, I., 84

Moralities, Performance of, at the Palais de Justice, I., 250

Moreau, Hégésippe, II., 250, 251

Morgue, The, II., 34, 35

Moulins, Assembly at, I., 22

Mun, Comte de, II., 71

Municipality of Paris, I., 243

Murat and the Élysée Palace, I., 218

Mürger, Henri, I., 110, 342;
his “Vie de Bohême,” 367

Murillo, his “Conception of the Virgin,” at the Louvre, I., 206

Museum, Artillery, II., 83-88;
Carnavalet, I., 67, 310;
Cluny, II., 76-82;
of French monuments, II., 175;
of mineralogy, II., 130;
des Thermes, I., 314

Musical Artists, Society of, I., 315

Musset, Alfred de, at the Café de la Régence, I., 109

Mysteries, Performance of, I., 19, 226, 314

Napoleon I. and his coronation in Notre-Dame, I., 12, 19-21;
and _The Man of Destiny_ at Porte Saint-Martin Theatre, 92;
his burial-place, 100;
and opera-singers, 135;
and the Madeleine, 142;
and the Column of Austerlitz, 155;
and the Comédie Française, 178;
at the Élysée Palace, 218;
and the Bois de Boulogne, 222;
and the Arc de Triomphe de l’Étoile, 224;
at the Royal Military School, 230;
and the Rue de Rivoli, 283;
and the Legislative Body, II., 232;
his nobility, 303

Napoleon III.:
his burial-place, I., 100; II., 97;
completes the Louvre, I., 200;
and the Rue de Rivoli, 283;
birthplace, 340;
and the monument to Marshal Ney, II., 106;
sends 500 citizens to Sainte-Pélagie, 141;
creation of nobles, 303.
(See also Louis Napoleon)

Napoleon III. Bridge, II., 33

Napoleon Barracks, I., 283

National Assembly:
its heroic behaviour during the revolution of 1789, I., 50;
decrees the destruction of royal tombs, 102; II., 98;
description of a debate, I., 163-165

National Guard, their behaviour at the insurrection of June, 1832, I., 94

National Library:
the danger of fire from the proximity of the Salle Montansier, I., 86, 87;
and Louis XI., 187;
sequestration of Scheffer and Hanequis’ books, 187;
its gradual growth, 189, 190;
regulations, 191

National Museum of French Monuments, II., 175

National School of Mines, II., 166

National workshops, II., 130, 247

Naundorff, pretender to the French throne, I., 70, 71

Naval and Military Club, I., 140

Navarre, Queen of, Death of the, I., 23

Necker, Dismissal of, I., 47;
bust, veiled with crape, carried through Paris, 48

Necklace, diamond, Affair of the, II., 345

Necropolis of Saint-Denis, Burial of kings at the, I., 98-102;
destruction of tombs and mausoleums by the National Assembly, 102

Nemours, Duc de, his duel with the Duke de Beaufort, I., 350

Nesle, Mme. de, principal in a duel, I., 350

Nesle, Tower of, II., 288

Neuf Bridge, II., 34

Nevers, Duke of, I., 23

New Opéra, The:
dimensions, I., 133;
opening, cost, and number of persons employed, 138;
masked ball, 139

New Year’s gifts, I., 113, 114; II., 22

_New York Herald_, Office of the, I., 140

Newspapers suppressed by Charles X., I., 2;
after the Revolution, II., 180;
prosecutions of 1835, 181;
the first paper, 270;
leading newspapers and their writers, 270-273

Ney, Marshal, and the fencing-master, I., 350;
espousal of the cause of Napoleon, II., 103, 104;
trial and execution, 105, 106;
monument to his memory, 106

Nicholas-in-the-Fields, St., Church of, I., 299

Nobility, Emigration of the, II., 295-298

Nodier, Charles, custodian of the Arsenal Library, I., 290

Normans, their burning of a part of Paris, I., 3;
invasion of Paris, 7

Notre-Dame, founding of, I., 3;
Paris seen from the towers of, 4;
on the site of a Temple to Jupiter, 6, 12, 14;
coronation of Napoleon in, 12, 19-21;
wand of Louis VII. deposited in, 12, 13;
funeral of Raimond Diocre, 13, 14;
formerly consisting of two edifices, 14;
known as the “New Church” in the twelfth century, 14;
embellishments under Louis XIII., 14;
mutilations and restoration, 14;
absolution of Raymond VII., 14;
put to various uses, 15;
coronation of Henry VI. of England as King of France, 15;
panic caused by robbers, 15;
celebration of the Feast of Reason, 15;
executions in front of, 15;
penance of Damiens in front of, 17;
mass for Madeleine Guimard’s broken arm, 19;
dramatic performances, 19

Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, Church of, I., 340

Novels, Price of, I., 124

Nursing Institution, II., 196

Obelisk of Luxor, I., 154

Observatory, founding and design, II., 102;
copper cupola, 102;
instruments, 102, 103;
execution of Marshal Ney in the Avenue, 103

Observatory of Montmartre, I., 342

O’Connell, his will that his heart should be sent to Rome, I., 102; II., 91

Octroi, The, I., 7, 48; II., 318

Odéon Theatre, I., 10; II., 110, 291, 292

Odo the Falconer, I., 293

Old-clothes dealers, II., 260, 261

Olivier, Mlle., in the _Marriage of Figaro_, I., 45

Omnibuses, II., 31

Opéra, The:
described by Rousseau, I., 134, 135;
Dr. Burney’s opinion, 134;
rehearsals, 136;
first performances, 138

Opéra Comique, The, Marie Antoinette insulted at, I., 87;
its establishment, 115, 117;
its operas, 118;
destroyed by fire, 118;
its history, 292

Opera, Grand, its dimensions and commodiousness, I., 133;
its inauguration, 138;
and masked balls, 139

Opera House in the Rue Le Pelletier, destroyed by fire, I., 127;
and _William Tell_, 138

Opera-singers, engaged through the agency of diplomatists, I., 74;
compelled to perform by _lettres de cachet_, 89;
their immunities, 89;
salaries, 134;
training, 135;
costumes, 322-324

Opéra, National, formerly Académie Royale de Musique, I., 87;
its direction under the Republic, 87, 88

Operas, Composers of, at the Opéra Comique and the Académie, I., 118

Orchestra of blind men, I., 110

Organ-grinders, II., 327

Orleans, brother of Charles VI., Duke of, assassinates the Duke of Burgundy, I., 2

Orleans, Louis Philippe Joseph, Duke of,
(See Égalité, Philippe)

Orleans, Philip II., Duke of, liberates prisoners from the Bastille, I., 99;
and the Palais Royal, 167

Oriental Languages, School, II., 177

Orsi, Count, and Boulogne expedition of Louis Napoleon, II., 117-124

Oyster-women, II., 7, 8

Paix, Rue de la, I., 158

Palace of Industry and the Exhibition of 1855, I., 223, 224

Palace of National Archives, I., 304

Palais:
Bourbon, I., 231, 236;
Cardinal, 306, 307;
de Justice, 250-260;
Mazarin, 288, 289;
Royal, 2, 166-170;
des Thermes, II., 73

Palais, du, Boulevard, I., 264, 269

Palais Bourbon:
inappropriateness of name, II., 231;
construction, history, and use, 231;
and the Legislative Body, 231, 236

Palais de Justice:
its Roman origin and early history, I., 250, 251;
fire of 1618, 252;
fire of 1776, 253;
reconstructed and enlarged, 253;
design, dimensions, tower and courts, 254;
stalls and booths, grand staircase, &c., 255;
picture by Van Eyck, 256;
Salle des Pas Perdus, 258;
monument to Malesherbes, 258;
the Golden Room, 258;
trials in the “Hall of Equity” and the case of Cazotte, 259;
Galerie Saint-Louis, 259, 260;
Bureau of Judicial Assistance, 260;
collection of articles taken from prisoners, 260

Palais Royal:
revolutionary scenes enacted there, I., 2, 169, 170;
its original name, 166;
presented to Louis XIII. by Richelieu, 166;
residence of Henrietta of France and of Philip of Orleans, 166;
burning and re-erection of theatre, 166;
galleries turned into shops, 167;
place of dissipation, 167;
various owners, 168;
fired by Communards, 168; II., 359

Palais Royal Theatre, I., 184

Palissy, Bernard, specimens of his work in the Cluny Museum, II., 79

Panoramas established by Robert Fulton, I., 103

Panoramas, Passage de, I., 103

Panthéon, I., 3, 10;
the site, II., 59;
founded as the Church of Sainte-Geneviève, 63;
decision of the Constituent Assembly, 63;
its illustrious dead, 63, 64

Panthéon Theatre, II., 89

Parc, Mlle. du, her lovers and her intrigues, I., 174

Paris, Count of, and his claim to the throne, II., 305, 306

“Parisians,” The, I., 103

Parvis of Notre-Dame, its historical associations, I., 276, 277

Pascal, Statue of, I., 283

Pasdeloup, Popular Concerts started by I., 76

Pasquier, Baron, and the spy system, II., 18

Passage des Panoramas, I., 103

Paul, Hotel St., II., 158

Paul, St. Vincent de, and his asylum for foundlings, II., 102;
and the lepers, 142;
and the inmates of La Salpêtrière, 211

Paulmy, M. de, and the sale of his books to the Count of Artois, I., 290

Pauvent, first Protestant put to death in France, I., 286

Pavilion of Hanover, I., 126

Peasants, II., 167-170, 310, 311

Pelagie, Ste., Prison: I., 170; II., 131;
origin and first uses, 138, 139;
at the Revolution and under the Second Empire, 139;
Duchess of Berri’s Chapel and employment of prisoners, 139;
class of inmates and official staff, 139, 140;
celebrated prisoners, 140;
during the Republic and under Napoleon III., 141;
famous escapes, 141, 142

Pelletan, Dr., and the heart of Louis XVII., II., 92

Pène, Henri de, fights a duel at Vincennes, I., 61

Père-Lachaise, Cemetery of:
origin of name, I., 333;
site and characteristics, 334;
monuments and graves of notable people, 334;
the slaughter of May, 1871, 335; II., 359;
the crematorium, I., 335;
demonstration of students in connection with the death of Lallemand, 359

Périne, Institution Sainte-, II., 331

Perrault, Claude, and the completion of the Louvre, I., 198

Peter the Great, his visit to Versailles, II., 343, 344

Pétion and the Breton Club, I., 162

Petty trades, II., 259-264, 265, 266

Philip II. of Spain and the massacre of St. Bartholomew, I., 22

Philip Augustus:
Burial at St. Denis of, I., 98;
reconstructs the Louvre, 194;
and the Palais de Justice, 250;
founds the Central Markets, 315;
his towers, II., 157

Philip the Fair and the Palais de Justice, I., 250

Philip the Long, and the church of Notre Dame de Boulogne, I., 221

Piccini’s operas, I., 135

Pichon, Baron, his collection of books and objects of art, I., 291

Picture-dealers, II., 255, 256

Picture-gallery at the Louvre, I., 201-206;
at the Cluny Museum, II., 79, 80;
at the Luxemburg Palace, 130

Pillory, II., 315

Pimodan, Lieut-General Count de, I., 291

Pinel, reformer of lunatic asylum system, II., 211, 222

Piron, and the Académie Française, I., 37, 38

Pius IV. and the massacre of St. Bartholomew, I., 22

Place, de la Bastille, I., 43, 52, 59;
du Château d’Eau, I., 84;
du Châtelet, I., 291, 292;
de la Concorde, II., 143-154;
de Grève, I., 2, 15, 39, 289;
de l’Hôtel-de-Ville, I., 39, 281;
St. Jacques, I., 282;
Maubert, II., 71, 72;
de l’Opéra, I., 133;
du Parvis, I., 276;
de la Roquette, I., 282;
Royale, I., 68, 69;
Vendôme, I., 133, 155-158; II., 359;
des Victoires, I., 2;
des Vosges, I., 68

Poissonnière, Boulevard, I., 103

Pol, St., Execution of the Constable of, I., 282

Police-courts, I., 261

Polignac, Mme. de, principal in a duel, I., 350

Political indifference of Parisians, I., 54

Polytechnic School, I., 358

Pompadour, Mme. de, and her treatment of Latude, II., 214-216

Pomponne, Marquis de, his burial-place, I., 294

Pont-Neuf, the, Statue of Henry IV. on, I., 3;
events occurring on, 3;
the oldest bridge in Paris, 30;
first stone laid by Henry III., 30;
restored, 35;
incident of Mlle. Contat and Prince Henry of Prussia, 35, 36;
Mercier’s account of, 36, 37;
robberies committed by gentlemen on, 37;
resort of beggars, 38, 39

Poor, The:
their treatment, II., 193;
institute for their nursing, 196, 197;
homes, retreats, “bureaux,” and Government aid, 331-337

Popular concerts started by Pasdeloup, I., 76

Poquelins, House of the, I., 315

Porcelain, Sèvres, II, 228-230

Portal, Bérenger de, I., 290

Porte Saint-Denis, Construction and design of, I., 98

Porte Saint-Martin, I., 93, 98

Porte Saint-Martin Theatre, I., 80;
closed at intervals and afterwards re-opened by Du Maniaut, 92;
burnt, and rebuilt, 93

Post-cards, Adoption and circulation of, I. 322

Potel and Chabot, Firm of, and the banquet to ten thousand mayors, I., 126

Poussin, Nicolas, and the Louvre, I., 198

Prado, The, I., 269

Praslin, Duc de, Crime and suicide of, II., 124-130

Press, The:
in 1728, II., 268;
under the Convention, the Directory, and the Consulate, 269;
at the second Restoration, 269;
“ordonnances” of 1830, 269;
abolition of censorship by Louis Philippe, 269;
after the revolution of 1848, 270;
leading newspapers and journalists, 270-273

Press Club, I., 139

Prefect of Police, I., 270

Preville in the _Marriage of Figaro_, I., 45

Prévôt, Rue de, I., 284

Printers, and the suppression of newspapers by Charles X., I., 2

Printing, its introduction, II., 178;
work of Garamond and Robert Étienne, 178;
restrictions and opposition, 179;
privileges granted by Henry IV., and the censorship of Louis XIII., 180;
in 1791, 180;
and the play of Gérard de Nerval, 181

Printing-office, Royal, I., 307-309;
of Honoré de Balsac, II., 175;
of Quantin, 178

Prisoners, and their cells, I., 261, 262; II., 137;
famous escapes, 141, 142

Prisons, II., 131-146;
hygiene, food, and general internal arrangements, 145, 146

Private warfare in France, I., 3

Procope, Café, I., 108, 109

Protestant Temple of the Oratory, I., 314

Protestants:
attempt to drive away the Guises, I., 22;
privileges granted to them after the battle of Jarnac, 22;
preparations for their massacre, 23;
suspected of plots, 23;
their massacre on St. Bartholomew’s Day, 26, 27;
in the Bastille, 47;
their burning by Henry II., 286;
persecution at the Reformation, 287; II., 38;
places of worship, I., 287; II., 38, 43;
under the Reign of Terror, 43;
schools, I., 287

Prussians, charges against them for conduct during the Franco-Prussian War, II., 353, 354

Public Aid Department, II., 335, 337

Public Writers, II., 3-7

Quai d’Anjou, I., 291

Quantin’s printing-office, II., 178

Quartier Latin, The, I., 10

Quinze-Vingts, The, II., 198, 199

Quincampoix, Rue, I., 294

Rabelais, his place of burial, I., 284;
place of his death, II., 157;
his allusions to Francis I., 158

Rachel, Mlle.:
parentage and early life, I., 298;
her performances at the Théâtre Molière, and admission into the Conservatoire, 298;
at the Gymnase, 298, 299;
at the Théâtre Français, 299

Racine, and “Bajazet” and “Britannicus,” I., 3;
estrangement with Molière, 174

Racing, at Longchamps, I., 226; II., 254;
at Champ de Mars, I., 235;
as a fête, II., 255;
at Chantilly, 254;
at Versailles and Fontainebleau, 255

Racing Club, I., 140

Rag-pickers, their occupation described, I., 360, 361;
commissioned to kill dogs, 362;
in literature and the drama, 362-365; II., 260

Railway Club, I., 139

Railways, their introduction, II., 317;
development checked by the accident of 1842, 318

Rameau’s operas, I., 135

Ramus, Peter, II., 71, 72

Ranes, Hôtel de, II., 174

Raphael, his pictures in the Louvre, I., 206;
copies of his Loggie in the School of Fine Arts, II., 176

Raucourt, Mlle., Burial of, I., 58, 112, 158;
narrow escape from the guillotine, 178;
opposition to the Directory, 178

Ravaillac, Francis, his occupation and disposition, I., 31, 32;
plans the murder of Henry IV., 33;
assassinates the king, is tortured and dismembered, 34, 35;
suspected of firing the Palais de Justice, 253

Raymond VII. absolved in Notre-Dame, I., 14

Recruitment Bill of 1872, I., 65

Reformation said to have begun in Paris, I., 286; II., 36;
its progress, I., 288

Refreshments at the Exhibition of 1889, I., 239, 240

Reggio, Duke of, and his collection in the Artillery Museum, II., 84

Régence, Café de la, I., 109

Regnard, Birthplace of, I., 315

Regnault, Henri, II., 250

Regnier, the astrologer, I., 16

Reign of Terror, The Opéra and drama under the, I., 88, 135, 176;
its commencement, 150;
number of its victims, 151;
causes, 151;
and the mass for the Princesse de Lamballe, 313;
and massacre of inmates of prisons, II., 222;
and Robespierre’s rule, 235;
and the emigration, 295

Relics, Worship of, II., 91

Renaissance, Churches of the, I., 5

Renaissance Theatre, I., 86, 93

Renée, Princess, saves Protestants during the massacre of St. Bartholomew, I., 289

Rentier, The, II., 23

Reposoir, Le, place of meeting of the Breton Club, afterwards a Protestant Church, I., 162

Republic, Monument to the, I., 84;
the Opéra under the, 88, 135

Republican Guard, I., 271

Restaurant:
origin of the word, I., 103;
Banquet d’Anacréon, 85;
Brébant’s, 103;
Cadran Bleu, 85;
of the Porte Montmartre, 103;
Magny, II., 108;
La Maison Dorée, I., 122, 123

Restaurants of the Boulevard du Temple, I., 85;
in the early days of the Restoration, 122;
and the brothers from Provence, 122

Retz, Count de, I., 23

Revolution (1789):
the first blow and Camille Desmoulins’ call to arms, 47;
preparations for a rising, 49;
behaviour of the National Assembly, 50;
seizure of arms at the Hôtel des Invalides, 50;
fall of the Bastille, 51, 52;
revolutionary spirit in the provinces, 52, 54;
the cry “À la lanterne!” II., 29

Revolution (1830), outbreak and development, I., 169-171

Révolution, Place de la, I., 146, 151

Rey, M., and the fire at the Porte Saint-Martin Opera House, I., 86

Rheims, Archbishop of, presentation of books to the Royal Library, I., 190

Rhin, Hôtel du, I., 158

Richard the Lion-hearted, Heart of, II., 91

Riche, Café, I., 122

Richelieu, Cardinal, and the Académie Française, I., 37;
his attempt to put down duelling, 69, 349;
medallion to his memory, 111;
and the Pavilion of Hanover, 126;
presents the Palais Royal to Louis XIII., 166;
and the spy system, 272; II., 19;
and the Sorbonne, II., 51

Richelieu, Duc de, as a duellist, I., 350

Riding School of the Tuileries, I., 165

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