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Old and New Paris

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A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W

Abailard, and his students, I., 355; his house and his love story, II., 156 Abailard and Héloise, Monument to, II., 156 Abbey of Longchamp and its founder, I., 219 Abbey of Saint-Magloire, I., 314 Abd-el-Kader and the scene with General Bugeaud, I., 75, 76 Academicians, The, and the oyster-woman, II., 7, 8 Académie Française: Mercier’s opinion, I., 37, 38; and composers of operas, 118; origin, II., 55; constitution, 55, 56; M. Arsène Houssaye’s “The Forty-first Chair,” 56; celebrated men who were not members, 56, 57; funds and prizes, 58 Académie Royale de Musique, I., 87; Assassination of the Duke of Berri at the, 90 Achard, Amédée, fights a duel with Paolo Fiorentino, I., 61 Actors, Denial of the rites of burial to, I., 58, 111-113; imprisoned, 176 Actresses, sent to prison, I., 56, 58, 176; an exc ommunicated class, 58; Voltaire on the public opinion of, 58; their costumes, 322-324 Adrien de Valois, Burial-place of, I., 299 Adulteration of foods, II., 314 Affre, Monseigneur, his assassination, II., 66, 247, 249 Agricultural produce, II., 167 Agricultural proprietors, II., 167 Alaux, M., and the Folies Dramatiques Theatre, I., 85 Algeria as a training-ground for generals, I., 75 Altar of Patriotism, I., 232, 233 Alva, Duke of, and the massacre of St. Bartholomew, I., 22 Amaury, and his followers, I., 251, 252 Ambigu-Comique Theatre, I., 86 Americans in Paris, II., 13-16 Ancelot, librarian of the Arsenal Library, I., 290 Andelot, and the attack on the Guises, I., 22 André des Arts, St., Church of, II., 107 Anecdotes, of duellists, I., 353, 354; of students, 359; of Bohemians, 367, 368; of cookery and dining, 374-376; of coachmen, II., 1-3; of oyster-women, 7; of domestic servants, 22; of Parisian gaiety and wit, 24-27; of peasants, 169; of Talleyrand, 241, 242; of beggars, 324, 326, 327 Anglais, Café, I., 122, 123 Angoulême, Count of, I., 23; and the Hôtel Lamoignon, 68 Angoulême, Duchess of, and Mme. de Lavalette, I., 318 Anisson family, The, and the Royal Printing Office, I., 307, 308 Anjou, Duke of, and the massacre of St. Bartholomew, I., 23 Anne of Austria and the Val de Grâce, II., 90 Anti-Jacobin, The, I., 162 Antoine, St., Rue, I., 2, 46, 282-28 Apprenticeship, I., 301 Aquinas, St. Thomas, Church of, II., 238 Archbishops of Paris, Tragic fates of three successive, II., 66, 358 Architecture, Gothic style proscribed by Louis XIV., I., 5 Archives, Palace of, I., 304 Archivists, I., 305 Armour in the Artillery Museum, II., 86, 87 Army, The, its uniformity, I., 65; Algeria as the training-ground for generals, 75 Arnould, Sophie, birthplace, I., 3; her description of herself, 29; receives offer of marriage from Bélanger, 127, 129; poverty and death, 129; her wit, 354 Arsenal, The, and its library, I., 290 Artillery, Central depôt of, II., 238 Artillery, Museum of: origin, history and growth, II., 83-88; reorganisation, 83, 84; sacked in 1830 and replenished by Duke of Reggio’s collection, 84; specimens of the Stone Age, 85; Roman and Mediæval specimens, 86; fire-arms, 87, 88 Artistic and Literary Club. I., 140 Artists in the Rue d’Enfer, II., 106 Arts and crafts corporations, I., 300, 301 Arts Bridge, II., 34 Artus (or Arthur), King of Britain, and his duel with the Tribune Flollo, I., 277 Assembly of the States-General (1789), II., 232 Assistance Publique, I., 305 Astleys, The: open a circus in Paris, I., 73; the personal attractions of the son, 73, 74; their circus taken over by Franconi, 74 Astrology, I., 16; patronised by Catherine de Médicis, 42 Asylum: of Bicêtre, I., 63; II., 211-214, 221, 222; Children’s, II., 101, 102; Saint-Jacques aux Pélerins, I., 314; Salpêtrière, II., 209-211, 218 Auber, M., and the Conservatory of Music, I., 335 Aubriot, founder of the Bastille, I., 47 Austerlitz Bridge, II., 33, 34 Austerlitz, Column of, I., 155-158 Ave Maria Market, I., 290 Avenue Marigny, I., 223, 224 Aveugles, Café des, I., 110 Bac, Rue du, I., 10 Balloons as war vehicles, II., 236 Balls at the opera, I., 139 Baltazarini and his Ballet Comique de la Reine, I., 28 Balzac, and his tailor, I., 106; as a printer, II., 175 Bank of France, I., 322 Banquet d’Anacréon Restaurant, I., 85 Barnave and the Breton Club, I., 162 Barracks, Napoleon, I., 283 Barère, proposes the destruction of royal tombs, I., 101, 102; and the preservation of the Louvre and the Tuileries for the king, 207; and the Breton Club, 162 Barriers, The: and the octroi, II., 318; designations and number, 319; Clichy and De l’Étoile, 319; scenes of executions and assassinations, 320 Barry, Mme. du, I., 302 Bartholomew, St., Church of, I., 269 Bastille, The, its destruction and the original intention of its builders, I., 46; as a State prison, 46; dungeons and internal regulations, 46; some notable prisoners, 47; and lettres de cachet, 50; its fall, 51, 52; release of prisoners, 51, 52; pulled down and meetings held on the site, 52; and the Encyclopædia, 55; liberation of prisoners on the accession of Louis XV., 55; II., 95; imprisonment of Mlle. Clairon, I., 56; prisoners liberated by the Duke of Orleans, 99; built by Étienne Marcel, 286 Bastille, Place de la, I., 43, 52, 59 Bath-house of the Romans, I., 73, 74 Batignolles, Les, I., 344 Baudelaire, Charles, his residence, I., 291 Bavoux, Nicholas, prosecuted for his lectures, I., 358 Bazaine, Marshal, II., 358 Béarn, Prince of. (See Henry IV.) Beaufort, Duc de, his duel with the Duc de Nemours, I., 350 Beauharnais, Louise de, saves her husband from death, I., 318-320 Beaujolais Theatre, I. 183 Beaumarchais, and his Marriage of Figaro, I., 44-46, 67; builds the Théâtre du Marais, 67; his Mère Coupable, 67; imprisoned at St. Lazare, II., 142 Beaumarchais, Boulevard, I., 43, 46, 47, 67 Beaumarchais Theatre, I., 43, 67 Beaupré, Mlle., on dramatic literature, I., 174 Beauvais, Hôtel de, I., 283 Beauvoir, Roger de, I., 291 Bedford, Duke of, and the funeral of Charles VI., I., 98; II., 94 Beggars: on the Pont-Neuf, I., 38, 39; organised into troops, II., 324; penalties in the Middle Ages, 324; and the General Hospital, 325; and Louis XV., 326; at the Revolution, 326; as professionals, 326; anecdotes, 327; employment in prison, 330; Homes and Retreats, 331; “bureaux,” 333 Béjard, Armande, wife of Molière, I., 173; II., 291 Béjard, Madeleine, I., 173; II., 291 Bélanger, the architect, I., 84; builds the Hôtel de Brancas and proposes marriage to Sophie Arnould, 127, 129; appeals to the Government on Sophie Arnould’s behalf, 129 Belleville, I., 335 Belleyme, M. de, Prefect of Police, I., 275; II., 18 Beltard, the architect, I., 315 Benedictines, Church and Monastery of, I., 306; II., 90 Béranger, Statue of, I., 303; Benjamin Constant’s opinion of his songs, 303 Bercy, Bridge de, II., 33 Bergeret, Communist leader, II., 357 Bernhardt, Sarah, I., 182 Bernini, and his designs for the completion of the Louvre, I., 198 Berri, Duke of, Assassination of, I., 70, 71, 76, 86, 90; his widow inaugurates the Ambigu-Comique Theatre, 86; his double marriage, 90; his children born in England committed to the care of the Duchess, 91; burial-place, 100; II., 97, 98; alarmed at fireworks, I., 144, 145 Berry, Duchess of, II., 111 Berryer, lieutenant of police, I., 273, 275; II., 17 Berryer, Statue of, in the Palais de Justice, I., 258; defends Louis Napoleon, II., 124 Berthe, Queen, I., 42 Béthisy, Rue de, I., 3 Beyle, Henri, Monument to, I., 324 Bèze, Theodore de, II., 39 Bicêtre Asylum, I., 63; origin of name and its history, II., 211, 212; approach, population, departments, and canteen, 212; great well, workshops, library, and inmates, 213; disturbances, 213, 214; “Monsieur l’Abbé” and his painting, 214; epileptics, idiots, and criminal lunatics, 214; story of Latude, 214; story of the four sergeants of La Rochelle, 218-221; insurrections, 221; massacre at the Reign of Terror, 222; reforms of Pinel, 222 Bièvre, River, II., 225 Birds, Convent of the, II., 196 Biron, Duc de, and the belief in magic, I., 17; and the arrest of the Young Pretender, 63 Biron, Marshal de, in the Bastille, I., 47 Bismarck, Count, and General de Wimpffen, II., 360 Blanc, Louis, and the death of Armand Carrel, I., 62; his account of the Boulogne expedition, II., 117, 118 Blanche, Queen, II., 157 Blaze, M. Castil, on the proximity of the Salle Montansier to the National Library, I., 86 Blind Children, Institution for, II., 198 Blind men, Orchestra of, I., 110 Bohemians: described by Béranger and Balzac, I., 365; described by Montépin, 366; two generations, 366, 367; Henri Mürger’s “Vie de Bohème,” 367; anecdote told by Grenville Murray, 368; at the Café Momus, 110 Boieldieu, his residence, I., 111 Boiling of coiners, I., 3 Bois de Boulogne, I., 221-223; II., 287 Boisgerard effects the escape of Sir Sidney Smith from the Temple, I., 72, 73 Bologne, Jean de, and the statue of Henry IV., I., 31 Bonaparte, Lucien, and the Place des Vosges, I., 310 Bondi, Rue de, and its theatres, I., 85, 86 Bonne Nouvelle Bazaar, I., 103 Bonne Nouvelle Boulevard, I., 103 Bonvalet’s restaurant, and his supply of food during the siege of Paris, I., 85 Bookstalls, II., 255 Books, Burning, I., 40, 252; proscription of, 40, 126, 187-189 Booksellers and the king’s library, I., 190 Bookselling, I., 124, 125 Bordeaux, Duke of. (See Chambord, Count of) Bornier, Vicomte de, librarian at the Arsenal, I., 290 Bosc, Pastor du, II., 42 Bossuet preaching at La Salpêtrière, II., 211 Bouchardon, Edmé, Fountain by, II., 238 Bouffar, Mlle. Zulma, I., 93 Bouillé, M. de, and the flight of Louis XVI., I., 211, 214 Bouillon, Chevalier de, and masked balls, I., 139 Bouillon, Duchess of, and Adrienne Lecouvreur, I., 3, 182, 183 Boulanger, General, and the Naval and Military Club, I., 140 Boule and the inlaid furniture of the Louvre, I., 198, 199 Boulevard: Beaumarchais, I., 43, 46, 47, 67; Bonne Nouvelle, 43, 103; Bourdon, 282, 290; Capucines, 43, 130, 132; St. Denis, 43, 93; des Filles du Calvaire, 43; des Italiens, 11, 43, 115, 126, 127; Madeleine, 43, 142; St. Martin, 43, 93; Montmartre, 43, 104; du Palais, 264, 269; Poissonnière, 43, 103; du Prince Eugène, 302; Sebastopol, 95, 292, 293; Strasbourg, 95; du Temple, 43, 70, 85. Et passim. Boulevards, Formation of, I., 7; description of, 43; reflecting the history of Paris, 166; their restaurants and theatres, 43; upper and lower, 43 Boulogne expedition, II., 116-124 Boundaries of Paris, I., 103 Bourbon, Duchess of, and the Élysée Palace, I., 218 Bourbons, Burial-places of, I., 100; II., 97 Bourdon, Boulevard, I., 282, 290 Bourdon, Colonel, I., 290 Bourg, Du, Execution of, I., 287; II., 38 Bourgeois, Nicholas, I., 139 Bourgogne, Marguerite, Blanche, and Jeanne de, punishments inflicted upon them, II., 62 Boursault-Malesherbes and the Théâtre des Sans-Culottes, I., 298 Bourse, The: architecture, I., 191; origin of word, 191; its first location and subsequent history, 192; taken from the Communists, 359 Bourse, Petite, The, I., 192 Boute-Feu, Jean, and his fireworks, I., 146 Bouteville, Count de, his duels and his execution, I., 349 Bouvet, Father, his presentation of Chinese books to the Royal Library, I., 190 Brandus, M., Outrage at residence of, I., 115 Bread collectors, II., 260 Breton Club, afterwards Society of the Friends of the Constitution, I., 162 Breret de dame and the attendance of unmarried ladies at the opera, I., 89, 90 Bridge: Arts, II., 34; Austerlitz, 33, 34; de Bercy, 33; Jena, 33; Latournelle, 34; Louis Philippe, 34; Saint-Louis, 34; Marie, 34; “Napoleon III.,” 33; National, Solferino, De la Cour. Alma, &c., 34; Neuf, 34 Brie, La, Sorcerers of, I., 42 Brissot and his library, II., 108 Brosse, Guy de la, and the Jardin des Plantes, II., 147 Brosse, Jacques de, and the Luxemburg Palace, II., 111 Bruce, Heart of, II., 93 Brun, Lesueur le, I., 291 Bruno, St., and the funeral of Raimond Diocre, I., 13, 14 Buffon, preservation of his heart and brain, II., 92, 93; his administration of the Jardin des Plantes, 148, 149 Bugeaud, General, and his interview with Abd-el-Kader, I., 75, 76 Bull-fighting, I., 335 Bureau of Judicial Assistance, I., 260 “Bureaux of Beneficence,” II., 333 Burgundy, Duke of, Assassination of, I., 2 Burial of Kings, I., 98-102, 314; II., 94, 99 Burning, Jews, I., 3; sorcerers, 3, 42; magicians, 15, 42; books, 40, 252; witches, 40; Waldenses, 42; Protestants, 286; II., 71, 72; lunatics, 207 Butchers, II., 308, 316 Butte Saint-Roch, The, and Joan of Arc I., 2, 159 “Cabochiens,” their attack on the Conciergerie, II., 134 Cadoudal, George, Vendean chief, his career, I., 313, 314 Cadran Bleu Restaurant, I., 85 Café: Anglais, I., 123; des Aveugles, I., 110; “Cannon of the Bastille,” I., 46; Cardinal, I., 115; Foy, I., 109, 110; Frascati, I., 106; Leinblin, I., 110, 167; Littéraire, I., 107, 108; des Milles Colonnes, I., 115; Momus, I., 110, 111; d’Orsay, II., 236; de Paris, I., 127; Porte Montmartre, I., 103; Procope, I., 10, 108, 109; de la Régence, I., 109; Riche, I., 122; Tortoni, I., 126; Turc, I., 80; Valois, I., 110 Café concerts, I., 80 Cafés of Paris, I., 83; indicative of political and other changes in French history, 107; literary, 108, 109; after the Revolution, 110; in the days of the Restoration, 122; disappearance of old specimens, 122; originally wine-shops, 122 Calvin in Paris, I., 286; as a student, 337; II., 36 Canal of Saint-Martin, II., 34 Cannon, fired by the sun, I., 47; specimens in the Artillery Museum, II., 87, 88 “Cannon of the Bastille” Café, I., 46 Capet Dynasty, Advent of, I., 7 Capuchins, The, and Rue d’Enfer, or Hell Street, I., 4 Capucines, Boulevard, I., 130, 132 Carafa, his residence, I., 111 Cardinal, Café, I., 115 Carmelites, Shoeless, II., 247 Carmes, The Couvent des, II., 71 Carnavalet, Hôtel, I., 310; II., 160 Carrel, Armand, killed in a duel with De Girardin, I., 62, 352 Carriages, II., 30, 31 Castiglione, Rue, I., 158 Castle of Chambord, II., 303-305 Catacombs: formerly quarries, II., 99; removal of remains from cemeteries, 99, 100; admission of visitors, 100; number of human relics deposited, 101 Catherine II. and Diderot, II., 246 Catherine de Médicis, her credulity, I., 16, 42; and Cosmo Ruggieri, 16; and the massacre of St. Bartholomew, 22; II., 39; her collection of books, I., 189; and the Louvre, 195; and the Palace of the Tuileries, 206; and the Huguenots, II., 39 Catherine de la Rochelle, I., 160 Cavaignac, General, II., 248, 249 Cavaignac, Godefroi, his monument, I., 342 Cazotte, Jacques, his trial and execution, I., 259 Cecilia, St., Festival of, I., 315 Cemeteries, I., 333-335, 342; II., 250 Censorship of books, I., 126; II., 180; and Francis I., I., 187; opinion of Mercier, 188, 189 Censorship of the drama, II., 181-184; under Louis XI, 181; under Louis XIII. and Louis XIV., 182; and Athalie, Esther, and the Marriage of Figaro, 182; under the Republic and the Restoration, 183; its abolition, 183; re-established, 183, 184 Central Depôt of Artillery, II., 238 Central markets, I., 314-318; II., 166, 167 Central Paris, I., 281-326 “Cercle des Deux Mondes,” I., 126 Chamber of Deputies, II., 231, 232 Chamber of Peers, II., 112, 130 Chambord, Count of, Funeral of, I., 100; discussion on his legitimacy, 222, 223; and the Count of Paris, II., 305 Chamousset and l’Institution Sainte-Périne, II., 331 Champ de Mars: its original use, I., 229; historical events, 230, 231; national celebration, 231, 232; Altar of Patriotism, 232, 233; massacre by troops and execution of Bailly, 234; Festival of the Supreme Being, 234, 235; military and other celebrations, 235; as a racecourse, 235; the annex of the exhibition of 1867, 235 Champfleury, I., 110 Champs Élysées, I., 11; and the triumphal arch, 59, 218, 224, 225; as a pleasure resort, 224; amusements, 226, 229; exhibitions, 229 Chapelle, Ste., The Church of: its founder and its historical associations, I., 264; upper and lower chapels, 265; statue of Virgin and the painted windows, 266; Saint Louis and Blanche de Castille, 267 Chapelain, author of “La Pucelle,” burial-place, I., 294 Charbonniers, II., 218 Charenton Asylum, I., 63: date of foundation and history, II., 223, 224; as a house of detention, and the administrations of M. de Coulmier and Roulhac du Maupas, 223; rebuilt, 223; surroundings, 223, 224; internal system, number of inmates, and the patronage of Empress Eugénie, 224; amusements, 225 Charlemagne, Statue of, I., 278 Charles V., speech against Charles the Mischievous, King of Navarre, I., 2; and the Louvre, 194 Charles VI., Funeral of, I., 98; II., 94; and the Louvre, I., 194; and the municipality of Paris, 243; and the Palais de Justice, 250; his madness, II., 157 Charles VII. and Joan of Arc’s support, I., 2; and Agnes Sorel, 64 Charles IX. firing upon the Huguenots, I., 2, 26, 196; II., 40; his share in the massacre of St. Bartholomew, I., 22; II., 40; misled by the queen, I., 23; his avowal in Parliament after the massacre of Protestants, 27; II., 40 Charles X.: suppression of newspapers, I., 2; burial, 102; preservation of his heart, II., 91 Charolais, Comte de, alarmed at fireworks, I., 145 Chartres, Duke of. (See Égalité, Philippe) Chasseurs, The, I., 59, 64, 75 Château: de Madrid, I., 222; de la Muette, 223; Rouge, II., 72, 73 Château d’Eau, Theatre, I., 85; Place du, 84 Châtelet Theatre, Du, I., 291, 292 Châtelet-Laumont, Marquis du, and the Hôtel Lambert, I., 291 Chateaubriand on the Duke of Berri’s English family, I., 91; on the Jacobins, 163 Chaumette, M., and Notre Dame, I., 14; and the Opéra under the Republic, 88; his execution, 150 Chaussée d’Antin, The, at the end of the eighteenth century, I., 2 Chenier, André, imprisoned at St. Lazare, II., 142 Chermoye, Philippe, Assassination of, II., 89 Chérubini and the Conservatory of Music, I., 335 Chess-players at the Café de la Régence, I., 109 Cheval Blanc, Hôtel du, II., 108 Chevalier represents the Man of Destiny at Porte Saint-Martin Theatre, I., 92 Chevalier, Michel, I., 119; his imprisonment, 120 Chevreuil, M., and the flowers in the Jardin des Plantes, II., 151; and the Gobelins, 228 Children, Hospital for, II., 196; institution for blind, 198; imported to Paris from Italy, 328 Children’s Asylum, II., 101, 102 Chinese books in the Royal Library, I., 190 Choiseul, Hôtel, I., 126 Christmas, Saturnalia in churches at, I., 226-228 Christmas cards, I., 113 Church of, St. Bartholomew, I., 269; the Benedictines, I., 306; II., 90; St. Denis, I., 7; II., 94; St. Éloi, I., 284; St. Étienne-du-Mont, II., 66; St. Eustace, I., 5, 314, 315; Ste. Geneviève, I., 10; II., 59, 62; St. Germain l’Auxerrois, I., 2, 22, 26, 27; II., 29; St. Germain-des-Prés, I., 7; II., 170, 171; St. Leu-Saint-Gilles, I., 312-314; St. Louis, I., 291; St. Louis and St. Paul, I., 284; Madeleine, I., 11, 142, 143; St. Méry, I., 93, 293, 294; St. Nicholas-in-the-Fields, I., 299; Notre-Dame, I., 3, 4-19; Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, I., 340; St. Roch, I., 158, 159; Sacred Heart, I., 340; St. Sulpice, II., 171-173; Val de Grâce, II., 90, 91 Churches and chapels, English, II., 11, 43 Cigar-ends, Collectors of, II., 259, 260 Circus, opened by the Astleys, I., 73; of the Faubourg du Temple, 74; in the Boulevard des Filles de Calvaire, 76; of the Prince Imperial, 85 Circus-women, II., 19, 20 Cirque d’Hiver opened under the title of Cirque Napoleon, I., 73 Civic tribunal. The, I., 261 Clairon, Mlle., imprisoned in the Bastille, I., 56; her residence in the Marais, 67; II., 175; passion of M. de S—— for her, I., 129, 130 Claque, The: origination, II, 261; at the Restoration, and its organisation, 262; its utility, 264 Clausel, Marshal, I., 94 Clergy, their right to fight duels, I., 346; their corruption in the thirteenth century, II., 61 Clichy, Prison of, I., 342, 343 Clock in the Arsenal Library, I., 290 Club: Agricultural, II., 237; des Armées, I., 140; Artistique et Littéraire, I., 140; Breton, I., 162; des Deux Mondes, I., 126; des Éclaireurs, I., 140; Dramatic Critics’, I., 103; Le Grand, I., 111, 126, 139; Impérial, I., 140; Jacobin, I., 162; Jockey, I., 111, 139; Mirlitons, I., 140; de la Presse, I., 139; Railway, I., 139; de la Rue Royale, I., 140; Sporting, I., 140; de Terre et de Mer, I., 140; Union, I., 140; Washington, I., 140; Workmen’s, II., 71; Yacht, I., 139 Clubs, Management and facilities of, I., 141, 142 Cluny, Hôtel, origin and history, II., 74-82; collection of curiosities and objects of art, 76-82 Cobblers, II., 266 Cocher, The, various types of, II., 1, 2 Cockneys, Parisian, II., 27 Coffee, its introduction into Europe, I., 82; the rage in Parisian society, 83 Coiners, Boiling of, I., 3 Colbert appointed to complete the Louvre, I., 198; his tomb in the church of Saint-Eustache, I., 315 Coligny, Admiral, place of death, I., 3; plot for his assassination, 22; flattered by the king and queen, and wounded by Maurevel, 23; his murder, 24; daughter married to the Prince of Orange, 27 Coligny and Guise, Quarrels between the houses of, I., 349 College of France, II., 44, 45, 47; Du Plessis, 47; of Clermont, 47; of Dace, 71; of Soissons, 71; of the Lombards, 71 Colonne, M., I., 76 Column of Austerlitz, I., 155; removal of the statue of Napoleon, 156; erection of a new statue of Napoleon in 1833 and of another by Napoleon III., 156, 157; pulled down by the Commune, 157; re-established in 1875, 157, 158 Comédie Française, I., 103, 108, 109; and the Richelieu Theatre, 167; its history, 172-186; II., 110 Comédie Italienne, I., 175 Commercial Exchange, I., 318 Communards set fire to the Palais Royal, I., 168; of 1871, II., 355-361 Commune, The, and the fortifications of Paris, I., 8 Concerts started by Pasdeloup, I., 76 Conciergerie, The: I., 263; II., 131; its associations, 134; custodians, 134; attack of the “Cabochiens,” 134; dungeons, 134, 135; partly burned, 135; massacre of September, 135; inmates at the Revolution and tortures in the Bombec Tower, 136 Concorde, Place de la, extent and boundaries, I., 143; history, 143-154; Louis XV. and his statue, 143, 146; accident from fireworks in 1770, 146; formerly the Place de la Révolution, 146; and the execution of Louis XVI., 146-150; executions of Marie Antoinette, Philippe Égalité, Charlotte Corday, Madame Élizabeth, the Girondists, and others, 150; also formerly called Place Louis XVI., 152; fountains, obelisk, &c., 154; occupied by Russian and Prussian troops, 154 Condé, Prince de, Death of, I., 22; his abjuration, 290; fidelity to Protestantism, II., 39 Confessional, The, and the State, I., 33 Congé de la Bataille, I., 346, 347 Conservatoire de Musique, I., 90, 135, 335 Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers, I., 293, 300-302 Constant, Benjamin, Duel fought by, I., 351; and the songs of Béranger, 303 Constitution, Signing of the, by Louis XVI., I., 87 Contat, Mlle., and Prince Henry of Prussia, I., 35, 36; in the Marriage of Figaro, 45; her love-affair with De Lubsac and the loss of her jewels, 104, 105 Continental, Hôtel, I., 158 Convent of the White Cloaks, I., 306; of the Holy Sepulchre, 314; of Penitent Girls, 318; Des Carmes, II., 71; of the Good Shepherd, 102; of the Cordeliers, 106; of Les Filles de la Mère-Dieu, 139; in the street of Les Petits Augustins, 175; of the Birds, 196 Convention, Learning under the, I., 90; its procedure, II., 234 Convulsionnaires, The, I., 47 Cooks and cooking, I., 123; in comedy, 372; opinion of Brillat-Savarin, 372; in the 17th century, 374; schools, 374; and a certain archbishop, 374; in the reign of Louis XV., 374, 375; and Mme. de Maintenon and Scarron, 375, 376; the “epigram” dish and anecdote of Carême, 376; and the “cordon bleu,” II., 22 Coqueley, M., and the Marriage of Figaro, I., 44 Corday, Charlotte, Execution of, I., 150 Cordeliers, I., 162; Convent of the, II., 106 Corn supply, II., 313, 314 Corneille, Tomb of, I., 158; estrangement with Molière, 174; and the Comédie Française, 172-175 Corneille, Hôtel, II., 109 Council of Elders, II., 231 Council of the Five Hundred, II., 231 Cour des Miracles, I., 3 Courtyard of the Dragon, II., 247 Crébillon, II., 72 Crematorium in the Cemetery of Père-Lachaise, I., 335 Crémeries, I., 318 Criminal population, II., 320-323 Criminals, tortured, I., 4 Croissant, Jean Douet de Romp, his scheme for the abolition of mendicancy, II., 325 Cultelli, Procopio, founder of the Café Procope, I., 108 Cuvier and the Jardin des Plantes, II., 150 Czartoryski, Prince, and the Hôtel Lambert, I., 291 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 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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