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Chapter IX: Part 9

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Molière (Jean Poquelin), I., birthplace, 105;
baptized at Saint-Eustache, 106;
site of college, 108;
imprisoned in the Grand Châtelet, 116;
site of Paris theatres, 117;
married in Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois, 118;
site of his widow's theatre, 119;
fountain erected to his memory, 128;
residence at Auteuil, 129 _et seq._;
his arm-chair in the Theâtre Français, 133-134

Monval, M., I., 10

Morley, John, I., on Voltaire, 195;
on Diderot, 203;
on the Encyclopædia, 208

Palais des Thermes, I., frigidarium of, in the Cluny Museum, 21

Palissy, Bernard, I., homes in Paris, 91-92

Palloy "le Patriote," II., contracts to demolish the Bastille
walls, 229 et seq.

Pascal, Blaise, I., commemorative tablet to, 96;
site of experiments, 97;
where buried, 98

Philippe-Auguste, I., wall of, 28 _et seq._;
II., 168;
round towers of, 34;
paves main streets of Paris, 38

Place Dauphine, I., Mme. Roland's girlhood's home in, 243

---- de Grève, I., 23, 46

---- du Parvis-Notre-Dame, I., 27

---- Royale, II., 197 _et seq._

---- Saint-André-des-Arts, I., site of ancient church of that
name, 158

Pompadour, La, I., house of, unchanged, 208

Portes, I., de Buci, 33, 58

---- Dauphine, 33

---- de Nesle, 32

---- Saint-Antoine, 52

---- Saint-Bernard, 32

---- Saint-Denis, 53

---- Saint-Jacques, 33, 85

---- Saint-Marcel, 88

---- Saint-Martin, 53

---- Saint-Victor, 88

Ponts, I., d'Arcole, 27

---- des Arts, 54

---- au Change, 25

---- au Double, 27

---- Louis-Philippe, 47

---- aux Meuniers, 25

---- Neuf, 24, 33

---- Notre-Dame, 25

---- Petit-, 26-27, 82

---- Rouge, 86

---- Royal, 169

---- de la Tournelle, 46

Pôternes, I., Barbette, 52

---- des Barrés, 52

---- Baudoyer, 52

---- Beaubourg, 53

Quais, I., d'Anjou, 46

---- de Bourbon, 46

---- des Célestins, 52

---- Henri IV., 21

---- des Lunettes, 243

---- Malaquais, La Fontaine lived on, 169;
house of the elder Visconti still intact, 169;
Humboldt lived on, 170;
Cardinal Mazarin the largest builder on, 170

---- d'Orléans, 46

---- II., de la Tournelle, 32, 54, 84

Quinet, Edgar, II., house of, 13

Rachel (Élisa-Rachel Félix), II., homes in the Marais, 247-248

Racine, Jean, I., student in Collége d'Harcourt, 149;
homes in Paris, 150 _et seq._;
relations with Molière and Corneille, 152-153;
his house in Rue Visconti, 160;
family life, 165-166;
death and burial, 167

Racine, Louis, I., 160

Récamier, Mme., II., homes of, 38-44

Renan, Ernest, I., pupil of Dupanloup, in
Saint-Nicolas-du-Chardonnet, 44;
II., homes of, 22 _et seq._

Richelieu, Cardinal, I., widened Paris streets, 5, 49;
his theatre, 118-119

Robespierre, Maximilien, I., homes in Paris, 235-236

Rollin, Charles, historian, I., his residence unchanged, 99

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, I., traces of, in Paris, 205-206

Rue, d'Arras, I., 35

---- du Bac, I., 9

---- Boutebrie, I., mediæval staircase, 80

---- de Braque, I., 53

---- de la Bucherie, I., 80

---- du Cardinal-Lemoine, I., 32, 35, 43

---- Cassini, II., site of Balzac's house in, 62

---- Chanoinesse, I., 16

---- du Cimetière-Saint-Benoît, I., retains some ancient houses, 86

---- Clovis, I., contains fragment of wall of Philippe-Auguste, 35,
79

---- Dauphine, I., tablet at No. 44, 33

---- Descartes, I., cottages on the wall of Philippe-Auguste, 35

---- du Dragon, II., Hugo's house in, 133

---- des Écoles, I., bronze statue of Dante, 83

---- Étienne-Marcel, I., contains last fragment of the Hôtel de
Bourgogne, 51

---- de Fer-à-Moulin, I., contains fragment of Scipio Sardini's
villa, 41-42

---- de la Ferronerie, I., scene of Henri IV.'s assassination, 4,
48, 106

---- François-Miron, II., balcony of the Louis XIV. period, 237

---- des Francs-Bourgeois, I., 52-53;
II., relics of antiquity in, 260 _et seq._

---- Galande, II., houses of the time of Charles IX., 80

---- des Gobelins, I., country house of Blanche of Castile, 27-28

---- Guénégaud, contains a tower of Philippe-Auguste, I., 34;
II., 120

---- des Innocents, I., vaults of Cemetery des Innocents in good
preservation, 49

---- des Marais-Saint-Germain (now Visconti), house where Louis
Racine was born, 160

---- de la Parcheminerie, I., superb façade, 80

---- de Poissy, I., refectory of the Bernardin convent, 65

---- Saint-André-des-Arts, site of the original Porte de Buci, 34

Saint-Benoît-le-Bétourné, I., chapel of the martyrs, 84

---- Nicolas-du-Chardonnet, I., where Calvin and Renan made their
studies, 44

---- Paul, Cemetery of, II., 232-234

Saint-Pierre, Henri-Bernardin de, I., 99, 100

Sainte-Beuve, Charles-Augustin, I., room in the Cour du Commerce,
228;
II., his homes in Paris, 11, 12

Sainte-Pélagie, I., prison of, 43

Salle-des-Gardes, I., relic of the old palace, 24

Salpêtrière, the, I., 21, 238

Sand, George (Mme. Dudevant), II., homes in Paris, 27-29

Sapeurs-Pompiers, I., its _caserne_ a specimen of thirteenth
century architecture, 45

Sardini, Scipio, I., villa of, 41-42

Sardou, Victorien, I., collections of, 10, 26;
relic of Corneille, 143;
of Danton, 224

Saxe, Maurice de, I., residences of, 162-163

Scarron, Paul, II., house in the Marais, 220-222

Scribe, Eugène, I., commemorative tablet of, 217

Sellier, M. Charles, I., 10

Sévigné, Mme. de, II., born in the Marais, 215;
her fondness for the Carnavalet, 217-219

Staël, Mme. de, II., 33

Stairway, I., of la Reine Blanche, 27 _et seq._

---- I., of Dagobert, 17 _et seq._

---- I., of Jean "sans-Peur," 71, 72

Sully, Duc de, I., 46;
II., residence of, 56, 194-196

Surville, Mme. Laure de, II., Balzac's letters to, 57;
shelters Balzac's widow, 86

Taine, Hippolyte-Adolphe, II., house where he died, 21

Talma, Joseph-François, I., homes in Paris, 266-267

Taylor, Mlle. Blanche, I., 9

Temple, the, II., rise and fall of, 179-180

Terror, the, I., three famous victims of, 240-252;
II., 138, 154

Thackeray, William Makepeace, II., in Paris, 130-131

Tocqueville, Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel, Comte de, II., residences
in the Scholars' Quarter, 4, 5

Tour Barbeau, I., 52

---- de l'Horloge, I., 24

---- Jean "sans-Peur," I., 51, 58, 69 _et seq._

---- de Nesle, I., 32, 54

---- "qui-fait-le-Coin," I., 54

Tournelles, the, II., dwelt in by Bedford, 183;
by Charles VII. and Louis XI., 184-185;
by François I., 189-190;
lists of, 192-193

Turlupin, I., comedian of the Théâtre du Marais, 146

_Ville, la_, I., 36

Ville d'Avray, II., Balzac's house in, 69-71

Villeparisis, II., home of Balzac's father, 58

Villon, François, I., 20;
sketch of, 86-87

Visconti, Valentine, Duchesse d'Orléans, I., 57;
incites Dunois to avenge his father's murder, 59

Voie du Midi, the, I., now Rue Saint-Jacques, 31

Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet, I., baptized at
Saint-André-des-Arts, 158, 193;
sketch of, 193 _et seq._;
at the Café Procope, 201

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