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The Story of Paris

PART I.: THE STORY

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CHAPTER I

Gallo-Romain Paris

CHAPTER II

The Barbarian Invasions—St. Genevieve—The Conversion of Clovis—The Merovingian Dynasty

CHAPTER III

The Carlovingians—The Great Siege of Paris by the Normans—The Germs of Feudalism

CHAPTER IV

The Rise of the Capetian Kings and the Growth of Feudal Paris

CHAPTER V

Paris under Philip Augustus and St. Louis

CHAPTER VI

Art and Learning at Paris

CHAPTER VII

Conflict with Boniface VIII.—The States-General—The Destruction of the Knights-Templars—The Parlement

CHAPTER VIII

Étienne Marcel—The English Invasions—The Maillotins—Murder of the Duke of Orleans—Armagnacs and Burgundians

CHAPTER IX

Jeanne d'Arc—Paris under the English—End of the English Occupation

CHAPTER X

Louis XI. at Paris—The Introduction of Printing

CHAPTER XI

Francis I.—The Renaissance at Paris

CHAPTER XII

Rise of the Guises—Huguenot and Catholic—The Massacre of St. Bartholomew

CHAPTER XIII

Henry III.—The League—Siege of Paris by Henry IV.—His Conversion, Reign and Assassination

CHAPTER XIV

Paris under Richelieu and Mazarin

CHAPTER XV

The Grand Monarque—Versailles and Paris

CHAPTER XVI

Paris under the Regency and Louis XV.—The brooding Storm

CHAPTER XVII

Louis XVI.—The Great Revolution—Fall of the Monarchy

CHAPTER XVIII

Execution of the King—Paris under the First Republic—The Terror—Napoleon—Revolutionary and Modern Paris

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