Chapter II: Preface: To the Second Edition

The demolition of Old Paris has proceeded apace since the publication of the _Story of Paris_ in 1906. The Tower of Dagobert; the old Academy of Medicine; the Annexe of the Hotel Dieu and a whole street, the Rue du Petit Pont; the Hotel of the Provost of Paris--all have fallen under the housebreakers' picks. As we write the curious vaulted entrance to the old charnel houses of St Paul is being swept away and the revision of this little book has been a melancholy task to a lover of historic Paris. Part II. of the work has been brought up to date and the changes in the Louvre noted: it is much to be regretted that the new edition of the official Catalogue of the Foreign Schools of Painting promised by the authorities in 1909 has not yet seen the light.

_May, 1911._

CONTENTS

PAGE

_Introduction_ 1

PART I.: THE STORY

CHAPTER I

_Gallo-Roman Paris_ 9

CHAPTER II

_The Barbarian Invasions--St. Genevieve--The
Conversion of Clovis--The Merovingian
Dynasty_ 20

CHAPTER III

_The Carlovingians--The Great Siege of Paris
by the Normans--The Germs of Feudalism_ 35

CHAPTER IV

_The Rise of the Capetian Kings and the Growth
of Feudal Paris_ 51

CHAPTER V

_Paris under Philip Augustus and St. Louis_ 64

CHAPTER VI

_Art and Learning at Paris_ 84

CHAPTER VII

_Conflict with Boniface VIII.--The States-General--The
Destruction of the Knights-Templars--The
Parlement_ 107

CHAPTER VIII

_Etienne Marcel--The English Invasions--The
Maillotins--Murder of the Duke of Orleans--Armagnacs
and Burgundians_ 121

CHAPTER IX

_Jeanne D'Arc--Paris under the English--End
of the English Occupation_ 138

CHAPTER X

_Louis XI. at Paris--The Introduction of
Printing_ 144

CHAPTER XI

_Francis I.--The Renaissance at Paris_ 151

CHAPTER XII

_Rise of the Guises--Huguenot and Catholic--The
Massacre of St. Bartholomew_ 171

CHAPTER XIII

_Henry III.--The League--Siege of Paris by
Henry IV.--His Conversion, Reign and
Assassination_ 186

CHAPTER XIV

_Paris under Richelieu and Mazarin_ 204

CHAPTER XV

_The Grand Monarque--Versailles and Paris_ 223

CHAPTER XVI

_Paris under the Regency and Louis XV.--The
brooding Storm_ 242

CHAPTER XVII

_Louis XVI.--The Great Revolution--Fall of
the Monarchy_ 256

CHAPTER XVIII

_Execution of the King--Paris under the First
Republic--The Terror--Napoleon--Revolutionary
and Modern Paris_ 271

PART II.: THE CITY

SECTION I

_The Cite--Notre Dame--The Sainte Chapelle--The
Palais de Justice_ 295

SECTION II

_St. Julien le Pauvre--St. Severin--The
Quartier Latin_ 313

SECTION III

_Ecole des Beaux Arts--St. Germain des Pres--Cour
du Dragon--St. Sulpice--The Luxembourg--The
Odeon--The Cordeliers--The
Surgeons' Guild--The Musee Cluny--The
Sorbonne--The Pantheon--St.
Etienne du Mont--Tour Clovis--Wall
of Philip Augustus--Roman Amphitheatre_ 318

SECTION IV

_The Louvre--Sculpture: Ground Floor_ 333

SECTION V

_The Louvre (continued)--Pictures: First Floor_ 350

SECTION VI

_The Ville (S. of the Rue St. Antoine)--The
Hotel de Ville--St. Gervais--Hotel Beauvais--Hotel
of the Provost of Paris--SS. Paul and Louis--Hotel
de Mayenne--Site of the Bastille--Bibliotheque
de l'Arsenal--Hotel Fieubert--Hotel de Sens--Isle
St. Louis_ 400

SECTION VII

_The Ville (N. of the Rue St. Antoine)--Tour
St. Jacques--Rue St. Martin--St. Merri--Rue
de Venise--Les Billettes--Hotels
de Soubise, de Hollande, de Rohan--Musee
Carnavalet--Place Royale--Musee Victor
Hugo--Hotel de Sully_ 407

SECTION VIII

_Rue St. Denis--Fontaine des Innocents--Tower
of Jean sans Peur--Cour des Miracles--St.
Eustache--The Halles--St. Germain
l'Auxerrois_ 417

SECTION IX

_Palais Royal--Theatre Francais--Gardens and
Cafes of the Palais Royal--Palais Mazarin
(Bibliotheque Nationale)--St. Roch--Vendome
Column--Tuileries Gardens--Place
de la Concorde--Champs Elysees_ 424