Chapter XLVIII: Versailles and the Commune (3)

Ripley, General, offered the command of the Paris forts, II., 350

Rivoli, Rue de, I., 282, 283

Roads and Bridges, National School of, II., 177

Robbers in Notre-Dame, I., 15;
on the Pont-Neuf, 37

Robespierre at the Café de la Régence, I., 109;
his execution, 151;
his Jacobinism, 163;
at the Festival of the Supreme Being, 234, 235;
and his spy system, 274;
ferocity of his rule, II., 235;
and the Breton Club, I., 162

Roch, St., Church of, I., 158, 159

Rochart, M., and the Ambigu-Comique Theatre, I., 86

Rochefort, Count de, commits robberies on the Pont-Neuf, I., 37

Rochefoucauld, La, and the attack on the Guises, I., 22;
murdered, 26;
and the Breton Club, 162

Rochelle, La, Story of the Four Sergeants of, II., 218-221

Rochepot, Hôtel de la, I., 286

Rohan, Cardinal de, and the “affair of the diamond necklace,” II., 345

Rohan, Hôtel de, I., 304

Rohan-Rochefort, Princess, wife of the Duc d’Enghien, I., 59, 60;
sealed packet found after her death, 61

Roman specimens in the Artillery Museum, II., 86

Roquette, La, prison, II., 131;
its library, 132;
regulations and administration, 133;
precautions, 133;
condemned cell, 134

Rossini, I., 1;
at the Théâtre des Italiens, 117;
his residence, 111, 127

Rothschild and Rachel, Story of, I., 336

Rothschild, Baron James de, his career and character, I., 338, 339

Rothschild, Mayer Anselm, early life and first speculations, I., 337;
principles, death and successors, 338

Rothschilds, House of the, I., 337;
its growth, 338, 339;
founder of the French branch, 338

Rotunda, place of confinement for debtors, I., 304

Rouge, Château, II., 73

Rousseau on the opera, I., 134, 135;
knocked down by a dog, 262;
removal of his remains to the Panthéon, II., 64;
and Diderot, 244;
early life and works, 283;
“Letters on Music” and the “Nouvelle Héloïse,” 284;
and Madame D’Épinay, 284;
and Voltaire, 285;
death, eccentricities, and literary fame, 285

Roux, Le, and the Opéra under the Republic, I., 88

Rowing, II., 255

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

Royal Military School of Louis XV., I., 229, 230

Royale, Place, and the accident to Henry II., I., 68;
horse-market and duels, 69;
statue of Louis XIII., 69;
favourite quarter of the nobility, 69;
and Richelieu’s house, 69

Royale, Rue, I., 143

Rozière, Thuriot de la, demands the surrender of the Bastille, I., 50

Rue Royale Club, I., 140

Ruggieri, pyrotechnist, I., 144

Ruggieri, Cosmo, the magician, I., 16, 318

Russian restaurants at the Exhibition of 1889, I., 239, 240

Sacred Heart, Church of the, I., 340

Sade, Marquis de, I., 40; II., 218, 225

Sainte-Beuve, a principal in a duel, I., 353;
and the Magny Restaurant, II., 108;
early life, 251;
literary labours and humanitarian principles, 252;
character and death, 253;
contributions to the _Constitutionnel_, 270

Sainval, Mlle., and the _Marriage of Figaro_, I., 44

Sallé, Mlle., I., 322

Salle Montansier, The, I., 86

Salles, Saint-François de, Portrait of, I., 312

Salm, Hôtel de, II., 236, 237

Salpêtrière, La:
origin of name, II., 209;
foundation and opening, 209;
church, population, improvements and administration, 210;
improvements of Pinel, some noted inmates and curative experiments, 211;
and the Four Sergeants of La Rochelle, 218

Sammerard, M. Alexandre du, and his art collection, II., 76

Sand, George, and the Restaurant Magny, II., 108

Santé, La, prison, II., 131

Sanval, opinion of Rue St. Denis, I., 311

Sardou, Victorien, and his _M. Garat_, I., 84

Sartine, De, and the spy system, I., 272; II., 17

Sassave, Nina, I., 83

Saturnalia in churches at Christmas, I., 226-228

Saxe, M. Adolphe, and the outrage on the residence of M. Brandus, I., 115

Saxe, Marshal, and Adrienne Lecouvreur, I., 58, 182;
and Mme. Favart, 118

Scavengers, II., 28

Scheffer, Ary, I., 1; II., 219

Schneider, Mlle., I., 84

School, of Drawing, II., 106;
of Fine Arts, I., 10; II., 175, 176;
of Maps, I., 305;
of Medicine, I., 10; II., 106, 107;
of Mines, II., 166;
of Oriental Languages, II., 177;
of Roads and Bridges, II., 177

Schools:
headquarters, I., 355;
as an agent of civilisation, 356;
widespread reputation, 357

Scouts’ Club, I., 140

Sébastopol, Boulevard, I., 95, 292, 293

Sedan-chairs, II., 30

Seine, The:
its winding course, I., 4;
“ports,” 5;
its bridges, 5; II., 34, 35;
the right and left banks, I., 10, 30;
baths, II., 33, 255;
rowing and swimming, 254, 255;
rights of navigation, 307;
and the corporation of water-merchants, 307, 308;
fairs on the banks, 308

Selwyn, George, visiting Paris to see Damiens tortured, I., 18, 19

Senate, The, II., 112, 130, 232

Sens, Hôtel de, I., 35; II., 158

Sergeants of La Rochelle, Story of the Four, II., 218-221

Sévigné, Mme. de, Residence of, I., 67;
her condemnation of coffee, 83

Sévigné, Rue de, and the Musée Carnavalet, I., 67;
and the Hôtel Lamoignon, I., 68

Sèvres manufactory:
its origin, II, 228, 229;
cost to the State, 230;
characteristics of the porcelain, 228, 230

Shops, Antique, II., 265-267;
of the Boulevards, I., 43

Siam, Embassy from, I., 3

Sibour, Monseigneur, his assassination, II., 66

Siege of Paris, II., 348-354;
arming the fortifications, 348;
advance of the Prussians, 349-350;
occupation of Versailles, 352;
second siege under the Commune, 358, 359

Siegfried, Defeat of, I., 7

Sieyès and the Breton Club, I., 163

Simon, the Temple gaoler, and the supposed escape of Louis XVII., I., 70, 71

Simon, Saint-, the association which he founded, and the rules of his followers, I, 119

Simon, Saint-, description of Versailles, II., 338-340

Slaughter-houses, II., 308-310

Smith, Sir Sidney, his escape from the Temple prison effected by Boisgerard, I., 72, 73

Society of Men of Letters, I., 103

Society of Musical Artists, I., 315

Soissons, Hôtel de, I., 318

Sorbonne, The:
its founder, II., 49;
its teaching and influence, 50;
its condemnation of Joan of Arc, and various decrees, 50, 51;
and Cardinal de Richelieu, 51;
at the Revolution, 51;
resuscitated, 52;
famous professors, and views of Mercier, 52, 53

Sorcerers, Burning, I., 3

Sorcery in Paris, I., 16, 42

Sorel, Agnes:
her château in the wood of Vincennes, and her treatment by the Parisians, I., 64

Soubise, Hôtel de, I., 304

Soult, Marshal, and the story of Murillo’s “Conception of the Virgin,” I., 206;
and Marshal Ney, II., 103

Spain, Campaign in, represented on the stage, I., 75

Spanish garrison, The, and Henry IV., I., 314

“Spartans,” The, I., 103

Speculators, Successful, I., 295

Spontini’s operas, I., 135

Sporting Club, I., 140

Sports and diversions, II., 254-256

Spy system, I., 271-275; II., 17-19

Stage, The, denounced by the church, I., 56

Stalls, Old wooden, II., 265

States-General, II., 232

Steel, Manufacture of, II., 236

Steeple-chases, II., 287, 288

Stone Age, Specimens in the Artillery Museum of the, II., 85

Strasburg, Boulevard, I., 95

Strasburg, The revolutionary spirit in, I., 52, 54

Street-musicians, II., 327, 328

Streets:
nomenclature, and system of numbering houses, II., 28;
lighting, 28;
scavengers, 28;
vehicles, 30-32

Strolling players, II., 20

Students: I., 250;
in the Middle Ages, 355;
characteristics, 345, 355;
at the Revolution and under the Directory, 357;
in 1814, 357;
in 1819, 358;
and the death of Lallemand, 358, 359;
at the Revolution of 1830, 359;
and the death of Papu, 359;
their present indifference to politics, 359;
anecdote, 359;
in the Quartier Latin, II., 65;
assembling in the Place Maubert, 71

Sulpice, St., Church of:
antiquity and history, II., 171, 172;
architecture, sculpture, pictures and organ, 172;
harpsichord of Marie Antoinette, 173;
re-named at the Revolution, 173

Sunday in Paris and in London, II., 12

Superstitions of past times, I., 4, 16

Swimming-baths, II., 255

Swiss Guard, their heroism, I., 170

Synagogue, of the Rue Notre Dame de Nazareth, I., 304, 339;
in the Rue de la Victoire, 340

Talleyrand, at the national celebration in the Champ de Mars, I., 232;
his house in the Rue de Grenelle, II., 239;
his career, 239-241;
death-bed anecdote, 241;
and the Breton Club, I., 62

Talma, I., 103, 176, 350

Talmont, Princesse de, and the arrest of her lacquey, I., 63

Tapestries in the Cluny Museum, II., 80

Tavanne, Marshal de, I., 23

Taverns, II., 308

Tax on theatres, I., 175; II., 335

Teligni, Count, Assassination of I., 26

Templars, Arrest and execution of, I., 276;
sequestration of their property, 303

Temple, The, and the imprisonment of Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette, I., 70;
the escape of Sir Sidney Smith, 72, 73

Temple, Boulevard du, I., 70, 80, 85

“Temple of Hymen,” I., 299

Temple Market, I., 303, 304

Temple of the Oratory, Protestant, I., 314

Temple, Rue du, and the Assassination of the Duke of Burgundy, I., 2;
and the Templars, 303

Temple of Terpsichore, Madeleine Guimard’s, I., 127

Tennis-ground of the Count d’Artois, I., 84

Théâtre, Beaujolais, I., 183;
Beaumarchais, I., 43, 67;
du Châtelet, I., 291, 292;
Château d’Eau, I., 85;
Dejazet, I., 84;
Folies Saint-Germain, II., 89;
Français, I., 11, 44-46, 111;
Gaieté, I., 302, 303;
Guénégaud, I., 174;
des Italiens, I., 117;
L’illustre, II., 291;
du Marais, I., 174; II., 110;
of the Marble Table, I., 250, 252;
Molière, I., 298;
Montparnasse, II., 250;
Odéon, I., 175; II., 110, 291, 292;
Opéra Comique, I., 292;
Palais Royal, I., 184;
Panthéon, II., 89;
Renaissance, I., 86, 93;
Variétés, I., 103, 104

Theatres:
and military spectacles, I., 75;
in the Boulevard du Temple, 76;
in the Rue de Bondi, 85, 86;
their discomforts, 131, 132;
military guards, 132;
taxation, 175; II., 335;
the _petite loge_, I., 184

Theo, Mlle., I., 93

Thermes, Palais des, II., 73, 74

Thierry, Édouard, librarian at the Arsenal, I., 290

Thiers, M., and the fortifications of Paris, I., 7, 8;
his description of the coronation of Napoleon, 20;
and the attempt on the life of Louis Philippe, 77;
fights a duel, 351;
and the Commune, II., 356

Thieving, Ancient punishment for, I., 3

Thomas, M. Ambroise, and the Conservatory of Music, I., 335

Tiberius erecting an altar on the future site of Notre-Dame, I., 3

Tight-rope dancers, I., 226

Tobacco factory, II., 154, 155

Tobacconists, II., 155

Tomb of King Dagobert, I., 102

Torpane, Hôtel de, II., 160

Torturing criminals, I., 4, 17, 18, 34, 35, 79, 80; II., 136

Tournon, François de, II., 166

Tower of Nesle, II., 288

Trades, Petty, II., 259-266

Tradesmen living above their shops, I., 311

Trianon, II., 340

Tribunal of Commerce, I., 267, 269, 294

Tribunal of police, I., 262

Tricolour, Assumption of the, at the Revolution of 1789, I., 48, 246

“Tricoteuses,” II., 361

Triumphal Arch:
Porte Saint-Martin, I, 93;
Champs Élysées, 59, 218, 224, 225

Trocadéro, The, I., 241

Trochu, General, and the defence of Paris, II., 350

Tuileries Palace:
dome, I., 5;
destroyed by the Communists, 201, 216; II., 359;
new palace built by Catherine de Médicis, I., 206;
its early royal residents, 207;
occupied by the French Opera Company, 207;
crowning of Voltaire, 207;
and Louis XVI., 207, 208, 211-214;
the gardens, 215, 216;
meetings of the Convention, 215;
Napoleon I. and other royal residents, 215;
the famous chestnut-tree, 217;
and the Legislative Body, II., 236

Turc, Café, I., 80

Turgot, I., 301

Turks, The, at Vienna in 1683 and their introduction of coffee, I., 82

Typography, Masterpieces of, I., 307, 308

Underground Paris and the Catacombs, II., 99-101

Union Club, I., 140

University of Paris:
date of origin, II., 45;
international teaching, 46;
famous students, 46;
privileges and government, 46;
and the Jesuits, 46, 47;
suspension, 47

Val de Grâce, Church of, II., 90, 91

Vandermond, M., and the Exhibition of Machines, I., 302

Variétés Theatre, I., 103, 104

Vaucanson machines, I., 302

Vaudeville Theatre, I., 130, 131;
and the performance of the _Dame aux Camélias_, 131

Vaudrey, Colonel, and Louis Napoleon’s Strasburg Expedition, I., 95

Védl, M., and Madame Rachel, I., 298

Vehicles, II., 30-32

Vendôme Column: I., 133;
its architect and construction, 155;
design and history, 155-158

Vendôme, Place:
its construction and its architect, I., 155;
statue of Louis XIV., 155;
name changed to Place des Piques, 155;
Napoleon and the Column, 155;
history of the Column, 155-158;
Hôtel Continental, 158;
Ministry of Justice and the Hôtel du Rhin, 158

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

Verdi’s operas, I., 135

Vermond, Execution of, I., 35

Vernet, Carle, and the Café Foy, I., 110

Véron, Dr., II., 270

Versailles, Palace of, and Louis XIV., II., 338;
description of a _fête_ in 1668, 340-343;
visit of the Tsar in 1717, 343, 344;
and Louis XV. and Louis XVI., 344, 345;
invaded by the mob, 346

Versailles, Town of, origin of name and Saint-Simon’s description, II., 338-340;
occupied by the Prussians, 352

Vertbois Tower, I., 302

Victor of Nîmes and his cure for _torticolis_, I., 332

Victor, St., Canons of, and the leper asylum, II., 142

Victoria, Queen, her visit to Paris in 1855, I., 291

Vidocq, Lieutenant of Police, I., 274; II., 18

Villon, François, II., 89

Vincennes:
resort of duellists, I., 59, 62;
place of confinement of the Young Pretender, 63;
Agnes Sorel’s château at, 64;
as a military station, 64;
citadel, Gothic church and dungeon, II., 286;
surrounding views, 286, 287;
“Bureau de Bienfaisance,” 288

Vinci, Leonardo da, his “La Joconde” in the Louvre, I., 204-206

Viollet-Leduc, M., and Notre-Dame, I., 14;
and the restoration of royal tombs, II., 99

Virgin, Statues of the, legends connected with them, I., 266;
legend of her stabbed image, 313

Visconti, place of his death, II., 177

Vitaux, Baron de, and his duels, I., 348

Volney and the Breton Club, I., 162

Voltaire:
his epic “La Henriade” and the monument to Henry IV., I., 35;
defence of the stage, 58;
and Adrienne Lecouvreur, 58, 183;
and Ninon de Lenclos, 67;
crowned at the Tuileries, 207;
and his purchase in the Rue Saint-Denis, 311, 312;
challenges a duke, 347, 354;
place of burial, II., 63;
as attorney’s clerk, 72;
preservation of his heart, 92;

and the name of “Arout,” 107;
place of death, 273;
mental qualities, 274;
early life and imprisonment, 274;
early works, visit to England, and growth of his reputation, 275;
post at Court, operas and travels, 276;
Moore’s opinion of him, 276, 278;
church of Ferney and ovations in Paris, 278;
death and transference of remains to the Panthéon, 278, 279

Vosges, Place de, I., 68

Vrilliere, De la, and his mansion in the Place des Victoires, I., 322

Waiters, origin and antecedents, I., 369, 370;
description of their habits and occupation, 370;
overcharges, 371;
exceptional traits, 371;
their chief ambition, 372

Waldenses, Burning, I., 42

War implements in the Museum of Artillery, II., 83-88

Washington Club, I., 140

Wax-work in the Cluny Museum, II., 79

Waxen images and the priests of the League, I., 16

Wechel, Christian, censured for selling the works of Erasmus, II., 179

Weights and measures, II., 236, 315

Well at Bicêtre, II., 213

Wellington, Duke of, and Marshal Ney, II., 106

White Cloaks, Convent of the, I., 306

Winchester, Bishop of, and Bicêtre Asylum, II., 211

Wimpffen, General de, II., 358, 360

Witchcraft, Burning for, I., 40;
popular belief in, 42

Women:
effect of the Revolution on them, 165, 166;
at theatres, I., 184, 186;
American, II., 15

Work-girls, Caps of, I., 10

Workmen, Costume of, I., 10;
quarters and dwellings of, 335;
clubs for, II., 71

Workshops, National, II., 130, 247

Writers, Public, II., 3-7

Yacht Club, I., 139

Young, Arthur, Account given by, of the revolutionary outbreak in Strasburg, I., 52, 54;
and the censorship of books, 126;
and the Jacobin Club, 163;
on Louis XVI. at the Tuileries, 208;
his adventure at the springs in the Puy de Dôme, 210, 211;
his description of Paris, 282, 283

Young Pretender, The, confined at Vincennes, I., 63

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