Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) Dumas' Paris _UNIFORM VOLUMES_ Dickens' London BY FRANCIS MILTOUN Library 12mo, cloth, gilt top $2.00 The Same, 3/4 levant morocco 5.00 Milton's England BY LUCIA AMES MEAD Library 12mo, cloth, gilt top 2.00 The Same, 3/4 levant morocco 5.00 Dumas' Paris BY FRANCIS MILTOUN Library 12mo, cloth, gilt top _net_ 1.60 _postpaid_ 1.75 The Same, 3/4 levant morocco _net_ 4.00 _postpaid_ 4.15 L. C. PAGE & COMPANY New England Building Boston, Mass. [Illustration: _Alexandre Dumas_] Dumas' Paris By Francis Miltoun Author of "Dickens' London," "Cathedrals of Southern France," "Cathedrals of Northern France," etc. With two Maps and many Illustrations Boston L. C. Page & Company MDCCCCV _Copyright, 1904_ BY L. C. PAGE & COMPANY (INCORPORATED) _All rights reserved_ Published November, 1904 _COLONIAL PRESS Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co. Boston, Mass., U.S.A._ Contents CHAPTER PAGE I. A GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1 II. DUMAS' EARLY LIFE IN PARIS 14 III. DUMAS' LITERARY CAREER 33 IV. DUMAS' CONTEMPORARIES 68 V. THE PARIS OF DUMAS 83 VI. OLD PARIS 126 VII. WAYS AND MEANS OF COMMUNICATION 147 VIII. THE BANKS OF THE SEINE 165 IX. THE SECOND EMPIRE AND AFTER 178 X. LA VILLE 195 XI. LA CITÉ 235 XII. L'UNIVERSITÉ QUARTIER 244 XIII. THE LOUVRE 257 XIV. THE PALAIS ROYAL 266 XV. THE BASTILLE 278 XVI. THE ROYAL PARKS AND PALACES 297 XVII. THE FRENCH PROVINCES 321 XVIII. LES PAYS ÉTRANGERS 359 APPENDICES 373 INDEX 377 List of Illustrations PAGE ALEXANDRE DUMAS _Frontispiece_ DUMAS' HOUSE AT VILLERS-COTTERETS 7 STATUE OF DUMAS AT VILLERS-COTTERETS 14 FACSIMILE OF DUMAS' OWN STATEMENT OF HIS BIRTH 26