INDEX

Ablutions, personal, 34

Academies, the, 75

Adour, the, 144, 168

Agnosticism, 80, 83

Agriculture, 116

Agrippa, 161

Aigues-Mortes, 127, 16

Aix-en-Provence, 164

Algerian wine, 125

Allier, the, 147

Alms-giving in churches, 44

Alps, 123, 124

Amboise, 150

Amiens, 203

Andely, Le Petit, 154

Angers, Château d', 150

Anglo-Norman horses, 123

Angoulême, 200

Apache, the, 96, 97

Arles, 130, 162, 164, 195, 196, 200

Armoricans, the, 7

Army, the, 209

Arrondissement, the, 60

Asses, 123

Assize, Courts of, 63

Aube, the, 152

Augustus Caesar, 161, 181

Auvergnes, the, 146

Aversier, the, 131

Avignon, 162, 164

Ay, 126

Baccalauréat de l'enseignement, 74

Bachelier, Nicholas, 167

Bacteriology, science of, 18

Bagehot, Walter, 53

Banns, announcement of, 42

Barker, Mr. E. H., 106, 116

Bastille, the, 111

Bath, the itinerant, 34

Battle of Flowers at Nice, 171

Bayonne, 168

Beauce, La, plain of, 115, 116, 119

Beaugency, 148

Beauvais, 203

Bedroom, the typical, 26, 28

Bergerac, 167

Bernese Alps, 143, 159

Betham-Edwards, Miss, 31

Béziers, 126

Biarritz, 184, 190, 191

Birth-rate, the, 36

Blessington, Lady, 172

Blois, 148

Blois, Château de, 149

Bonne-à-tout-faire, the, 13, 14, 101, 102 commissions of the, 30

Bordeaux, 167

Bore on the Seine, 155

Boué de Lapeyrère, Admiral, 207

Boulanger, 139

Boulevards, the, 88

Boulogne, 189, 208

Boulogne, Bois de, Paris, 110

Bourseul, Charles, 18

Boy Scouts in France, 72

Bread, French, 87

Brest, 207, 209

Brieg, 158

Brittany, 11, 12, 122, 123, 131, 189, 208 megalithic remains, 7

Brougham and Vaux, Lord Chancellor, 170

Brunel, Isambard, 18

Buckwheat, 115

Butcher, the French, 32

Byron, Lord, 159

Byzantine architecture, 193, 199, 200, 201

Cabourg, 184

Caen, 88, 201

Caesar, Gaius Julius, 10

Cafés, the, 86, 87, 88, 113

Calvaries, roadside, 122

Cannes, 170, 174

Canton, the, 60

Carcassonne, 198

Carmargue, the, 163

Carnac, prehistoric remains at, 194

Carnavalet, Musée, Paris, 109

Carts, country, 118

Casino, the, 171, 176, 178

Cassation, Cour de, 63

Catherine de Medici, 150

Cattle, 123

Caudebec, 155, 156

Cevennes, the, 115, 123, 145, 146 peasants of, 128-130

Charente, the, 144

Chartres, 202

Château Gaillard, 153

Château life, 133-137

Châtillon, 152

Chaumont, Château de, 150

Chenonceaux, Château de, 150

Cherbourg, 205, 209

Chestnuts, 115

Children, training of, 38, 39

Churches, 78 attendance at, 78 decorations in, 79, 80 irreverent behaviour in, 78

Church-going, women and, 79

Cimbri, 157

Civil Code, the, 14, 42, 47, 66

Cleanliness, 33

Clermont-Ferrand, 200

Cluny, Hôtel, Paris, 110

Coal consumption, 29

Concierge, the, 38, 97, 98, 99

Conciergerie, the, Paris, 110

Conscription, 210

Constantine, Emperor, 196

Constitution, the French, 50, 51, 52, 53

Conversation in the château, 139

Cooking, French, 2, 3

Corniche Roads, the, 179, 180, 181

Corrèze, 115

Costebelle, 173

Crau, La, 163, 164

Critical faculty of the French, 20

Curé, the, 83, 84, 85

Deauville, 183

Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, the, 50, 51, 52

Demolins, M., 71

Deputies, Chamber of, 55 salaries of, 59

Diane de Poitiers, 150

Dieppe, 187

Dinard, 189

Discipline, lack of, 47

Dive, the, 184

Divorce laws, 44, 45

Doctors, fees of, 131, 132

d'Or, Iles, 173

Dordogne, the, 167

Dot, the, 47

Dreyfus, Captain A., 63

Duelling, 139-142

Dumas, the elder, 139

Durance, the, 164

Ebro, the, 151

Economies of the French, 21

Education, expenditure on, 67, 68

Education and social status, 75

Educational system, 72

Edward the Confessor, 156

Edward VII., King, 190

English Channel, the, 6

Épernay, 126

Esplanade, on the Riviera, the, 176, 177

Essonne, the, 152

Estérel Mountains, 173, 174

Étaples, 189

Étoile district of Paris, 89

Étretat, 153, 184, 185

Eu, 187

Euric, king of the Visigoths, 166

Evreux, 204

Faculties, the State, 75

Family Council, the, 34, 35

Farms, 119, 120

Fécamp, 186

Five o'clock, le, 135

Flail, use of, 118

Flamboyant style, 204

Fontainebleau, forest of, 124

Food, high cost of, 105

Forests of France, 124

Forez, plain of, 146

France as a colonising nation, 48

Franchise, the, 56

Franks, the, 10

Fréjus, 173

French enterprise, 65

French people, origin of, 11, 12, 32

Frenchwomen, dress of, 2

Funerals, 79

Furnishing of the château, 135, 136

Furniture, household, 28

Galatia, 10

Gallia Comata, 161

Games at Lycées, 72

Garavan, 170, 182

Gard, the, 162, 195

Garde républicaine, the, 64, 93

Garonne, the, 144, 164-167

Gascons, the, 11

Gaul, early tribes of, 7, 8

Gauls, the, 9

Gendarmerie, the, 64

Geneva, Lake of, 159, 164

George, Mr. W. L., 81

Gironde, the, 167

Gisors, 204

Golf-courses, 171, 188

Grievances, endurance of, 49, 50 redress of, 19

Gris Nez, Cape, 6, 153

Guise, Duc de, 150

Habeas Corpus, the right of, 52

Hannibal, 157

Hardelot, 189

Harfleur, 156

Hausmann, the architect, 113

Havre, Le, 156

Hedges, lack of, 121

Holdings, average size of, 116

Holmes, Mr. T. Rice, 33

Home life, 25

Home-sur-Mer, Le, 184

Honfleur, 156

Hope, Sir John, 168

Horses, breeding of, 122, 123

Hotels, 3

Hotels, French and English, contrasted, 32, 33

Household furnishing, 26 repairs, 26

Housemaid's work done by men, 25

Housing, 37 in Paris, 104

Huguenots, 150

Hunting parties, 136

Husbandry, primitive, 117

Hyères, 172

Ideas, the great, of the French, 17, 18

Inscription maritime, 208

Institut de France, 75

Irreligion, 82, 83

Jeune fille the, 39, 40, 46, 69

Jewish communities, 81

Juge d'instruction, 63

Juge de paix, 35, 61, 62, 63

Jumièges, Abbey of, 156

Jura, the, 123, 143

Lamartine, 139

Landais, the, 11

Landes, Les, 123, 124

Langeais, Château de, 150

Language, the French, 8, 11

Langres, Plateau de, 152

Lannemezan, plateau of, 165

Lauzan, Hôtel de, Paris, 110

Le Parc, 160

Le Puy-en-Velay, 76, 146, 200

Liberté, destruction of the, 207

Libourne, 167

Lillebonne, 156, 198

Locke, Mr. J. W., 113

Loing, the, 152

Loire, the, 144-150, 156

Lorient, 209

Louis XIV., 110

Louvre, Palais du, Paris, 110

Lugdunum, 161

Lutetia Parisiorum, 110

Lycées, the, 39, 68, 69, 70, 72, 74

Lycées for girls, 69

Lyons, 61, 160, 161, 162, 198

Madeleine, the, 44

Maeterlinck, 156

Mairie, the, 43

Maison paternelle, la, 35, 38

Maladetta Chain, 165

Mariage d'inclination, the, 40

Marie Antoinette, 110

Maritime Alps, 164

Marketing, 30, 103

Marne, the, 152

Marriage, enquiries before, 24 parental control of, 40, 41, 42

Martin, Cap, 181

Martinière, La, 148

Mary Stuart, 150

Maure Mountains, 173

Meals, 31

Meat, the cutting of, 32

Medical services in the country, 31

Megalithic remains of Brittany, 7

Mentone, 181, 182

Merovingian architecture, 198, 199, 200

Métayage system, the, 117

Métayers, 117

Meudon Woods, 141

Midi, the, 118

Midinette, the, 13, 33, 94, 95, 96

Ministry, the, 56

Misconceptions concerning France, 13

Mistral, the, 163

Monaco, 177 Prince of, 178

Monopolies, State, 60

Montaigne, 140

Monte Bego, 118

Monte Carlo, 177, 178, 179

Montmartre, 107

Mont St. Michel, 202

Morals of the French, 16, 17

Moselle, the, 151

Mules, 122

Nantes, 148

Napoleon, 67, 140 modern France the work of, 65

Napoleon III., 55

Napoule, La, 171, 174

Narbonne, 10, 126, 198

National debt, 60

Navy, the, 205-209

Neste, the, 165

Nevers, 147

Nice, 171, 176, 177

Nîmes, 162, 194

Normandy, 115, 116, 118, 119, 122, 123, 126, 208 architecture of, 201 people of, 12

Notre Dame, Paris, 203

Noyon, 202

Nuns as medical practitioners, 132

Odours of France, 5

Oiseaux, Montagnes des, 173

Olive, the, 162

Omnibuses of Paris, 91, 101

Orange, 162, 196

Orleans, Forêt d', 124

Orne, the, 184

Orthez, 168

Oxen, draught, 118, 124

Parc Monceaux, Paris, 108

Paris, cab-drivers of, 1, 2 compared with London, 110, 111, 112 Étoile district, 107 fortifications of, 112 high prices in, 29 high rents of, 29 home life in, 25 Plage, 189 prisons, 65 Roman, 110 St. Antoine District, 109 Sainte Chapelle, 109 St. Étienne-du-Mont, 109 St. Germain, 109 St. Jacques, 109 smoke of, 107 streets of, 86, 87, 107, 108, 109

Pau, 191, 192

Pau, Gave de, 168, 192

Peasant, costume of, 126 life, 114-131 ownership of land, 114, 115 women, 130

Pelletan, M., 206

Pennine Alps, 143, 159

Percheron horses, 123

Perdu, Mont, 165

Périgueux, 197, 198

Philippe Auguste, 150

Phoenician traders, 164

Phylloxera, the, 125

Pigs, 123

Pinay, 145

Pistonnage, 58

Plato, 183

Poitiers, 200

Poitou, plain of, 144

Police, 64

Policemen of Paris, 90, 91

Politeness of the French, 99

Pont du Gard, 157, 195

Pont du Roi, 165

Pratz, Mdlle. de, 95, 105

Première Instance, Court of, 61

President, the, 57, 58

Prison system, 64

Protective tariffs, 104

Protestants in France, 81

Provence, scenery of, 163

Public Instruction, Minister of, 68

Pyrenees, the, 123, 124, 165, 191, 192

Pyrimont, 160

Rapidity of speech, 15

Reason, Festival of, 197

Religion of the French, 76, 77

Rents in Paris, 103, 104

Revolution, the, 50, 62, 197

Rheims, 203

Rhone, the, 127, 143, 157, 160, 161-165

Rhone Glacier, 144, 158

Richard Coeur-de-Lion, 153

Riviera, the, 169-183

Road, rule of the, 90

Roanne, 145, 147

Robespierre, 110

Rochefort, 139, 209

Roman architecture in France, 193-199

Roman Catholicism, 81

Rouen, 154, 155, 203

Sabatier, Paul, 84

St. Bartholomew, Massacre of, 150

St. Bénézet, 157

Ste. Beuve, 139

St. Denis, Paris, 78, 200, 202

St. Étienne, 145, 146

St. Gaudens, 166

St. Georges de Boscherville, 201

St. Germain, Faubourg, Paris, 106, 111

St. Gilles, 163

St. Jean de Luz, 190, 191

St. Martory, 166

St. Maurice, 158

St. Michel, Mont, 202

St. Raphaël, 173

St. Rémy, 197

St. Valery-en-Caux, 186

St. Wandrille, 156

Sand, George, 128-130

Sanitation, imperfection of, 88, 89

Saône, the, 160, 161

Scholarships, State, 69

School-boy, the, 73

Schoolmistress, the lay, 69, 70

Schools, 85

Segusiani, the, 161

Seine, the, 11, 150-157

Senate, the, 55

Servants, female, 26

Sévigné, Marquise de, 110

Sheep, 123

Sherard, Mr. Robert, 141

Shooting parties, 136

Shop assistants, 100

Sologne, the, 148

Soult, Marshal, 168

Strabo, 164

Strong, Rowland, 92

Submarine, France and the, 18

Superstitions among the peasantry, 131

Tancarville Castle, 156

Tancarville, Raoul de, 201

Taine, H. A., 65

Tarascon, 162

Tarbais horses, 123

Tarbes, 123

Taxation, 59 indirect, 60

Taxis, horse-drawn, in Paris, 92

Telephone, inventor of, 18

Tenda, Col di, 172

Teutones, 157

Thiers, 139

Thrift, the need for, 24

Thriftiness of the French, 14, 21

Toques, the, 183

Toulon, 207, 209

Toulouse, 166 plain of, 124

Touquet, Le, 188

Tours, 144

Town planning in France, 112

Traffic of Paris, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94

Trees, roadside, 121

Tréport, 187

Tribunal correctionnel de l'arrondissement, 61

Trou du Taureau, 165

Trouville, 183

Tuileries, the, Paris, 110

Turbie, La, 181

Universities, the, 74

Valence, 162

Valescure, 173

Vallais, the, 159

Veuillot, 139

Veules, 186

Vienne, 162, 197, 200

Vikings, the, 154

Villages, 120

Villefranche, 177

Vine, the, 163

Vines, American, 125

Virgin, representations of the, 76

Visigothic architecture, 199

Vosges, the, 123, 143

Vulgarity in illustrated papers, 15, 16

Waddington, Mary K., 136

Washing days, 138

Wedding ceremonies, 43, 44

Wellington, Duke of, 168, 191

William the Conqueror, 156, 184, 201

Wine-grower, the, 125

Woman in business, the, 46

Women, position of, among the peasants, 128

Yonne, the, 152

Young, Arthur, 166

Zola, Émile, 128

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