Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images available at The Internet Archive) Every attempt has been made to replicate the original book as printed. Some typographical errors have been corrected. (a list follows the text.) No attempt has been made to correct or normalize all of the printed accentuation of names or words in French. (etext transcriber’s note) HISTORIC PARIS BY THE SAME AUTHOR THE STORY OF THE CHURCHES OF PARIS [Illustration: LA TOUR DE L’HORLOGE, LES “TOURS POINTUES” DE LA CONCIERGERIE ET LE MARCHÉ AUX FLEURS _Frontispiece_] HISTORIC PARIS BY JETTA S. WOLFF WITH FIFTY-NINE ILLUSTRATIONS LONDON JOHN LANE THE BODLEY HEAD LIMITED NEW YORK: JOHN LANE COMPANY MCMXXI _The Mayflower Press, Plymouth, England._ William Brendon & Son, Ltd. TO LA FRANCE THE BEAUTIFUL--THE VALOROUS PREFACE This book, begun many years ago, was laid aside under the stress of other work, which did not, however, hinder the sedulous amassing of notes during my long and continuous residence in Paris. The appearance of the Marquis de Rochegude’s exhaustive work, on somewhat the same lines in a more extensive compass, took me by surprise, and I thought for a moment that it would render my book superfluous. The vast concourse of English-speaking people brought hither by the great war, people keen to learn the history of the beautiful old buildings they find here on every side, made me understand that an English book of relatively small compass was needed, and I set to work to finish the volume planned and begun so long ago. I had made the personal acquaintance and consequent notes of most of the ancient “Stones of Paris” before looking up published notes concerning them. When such notes were looked up, I can only say their sources were far too numerous and too scattered to be recorded here. I must beg every one who may have published anything worth while on Old Paris to receive my thanks, for I have doubtless read their writings with interest and benefit. But I must offer special thanks to M. de Rochegude, for--writing under pressure to get the book ready for press--his work as a reference book, while pursuing my own investigations, has been invaluable.