Martin, Cap, 181 Martiniere, La, 148 Mary Stuart, 150 Maure Mountains, 173 Meals, 31 Meat, the cutting of, 32 Medical services in the country, 31 Megalithic remains of Brittany, 7 Mentone, 181, 182 Merovingian architecture, 198, 199, 200 _Metayage_ system, the, 117 _Metayers_, 117 Meudon Woods, 141 Midi, the, 118 _Midinette_, the, 13, 33, 94, 95, 96 Ministry, the, 56 Misconceptions concerning France, 13 Mistral, the, 163 Monaco, 177 Prince of, 178 Monopolies, State, 60 Montaigne, 140 Monte Bego, 118 Monte Carlo, 177, 178, 179 Montmartre, 107 Mont St. Michel, 202 Morals of the French, 16, 17 Moselle, the, 151 Mules, 122 Nantes, 148 Napoleon, 67, 140 modern France the work of, 65 Napoleon III., 55 Napoule, La, 171, 174 Narbonne, 10, 126, 198 National debt, 60 Navy, the, 205-209 Neste, the, 165 Nevers, 147 Nice, 171, 176, 177 Nimes, 162, 194 Normandy, 115, 116, 118, 119, 122, 123, 126, 208 architecture of, 201 people of, 12 Notre Dame, Paris, 203 Noyon, 202 Nuns as medical practitioners, 132 Odours of France, 5 Oiseaux, Montagnes des, 173 Olive, the, 162 Omnibuses of Paris, 91, 101 Orange, 162, 196 Orleans, Foret d', 124 Orne, the, 184 Orthez, 168 Oxen, draught, 118, 124 Parc Monceaux, Paris, 108 Paris, cab-drivers of, 1, 2 compared with London, 110, 111, 112 Etoile district, 107 fortifications of, 112 high prices in, 29 high rents of, 29 home life in, 25 Plage, 189 prisons, 65 Roman, 110 St. Antoine District, 109 Sainte Chapelle, 109 St. Etienne-du-Mont, 109 St. Germain, 109 St. Jacques, 109 smoke of, 107 streets of, 86, 87, 107, 108, 109 Pau, 191, 192 Pau, Gave de, 168, 192 Peasant, costume of, 126 life, 114-131 ownership of land, 114, 115 women, 130 Pelletan, M., 206 Pennine Alps, 143, 159 Percheron horses, 123 Perdu, Mont, 165 Perigueux, 197, 198 Philippe Auguste, 150 Phoenician traders, 164 Phylloxera, the, 125 Pigs, 123 Pinay, 145 _Pistonnage_, 58 Plato, 183 Poitiers, 200 Poitou, plain of, 144 Police, 64 Policemen of Paris, 90, 91 Politeness of the French, 99 Pont du Gard, 157, 195 Pont du Roi, 165 Pratz, Mdlle. de, 95, 105 _Premiere Instance_, Court of, 61 President, the, 57, 58 Prison system, 64 Protective tariffs, 104 Protestants in France, 81 Provence, scenery of, 163 Public Instruction, Minister of, 68 Pyrenees, the, 123, 124, 165, 191, 192 Pyrimont, 160