Pont de l’Archevêché dates from 1828. Pont St-Louis, joining l’Île de la Cité to l’Île St-Louis, was built in 1614 as a wooden bridge painted red and called, therefore, Pont-Rouge. Like all wooden erections of the age, it was damaged by fire, and in the eighteenth century at the time of the Revolution, “icebergs” on the Seine knocked it over. An iron footbridge was put up in its place and remained till 1862, when the bridge we see was built. Pont Louis-Philippe was built in the same year to replace a suspension bridge paying toll. Pont de la Tournelle, built as we see it in 1851, began as a wooden bridge of fourteenth-century erection.[I] Pont Marie was not, as one might suppose, named in honour of the Virgin, nor after Marie de’ Medici, who laid its first stone. It simply records the name of its constructor, who was “Entrepreneur-Général des Ponts de France” at the time. Fifty houses were built upon it. Some were destroyed by floods a few years later, others razed in 1788. The two Ponts de Sully are, except Pont de Tolbiac, the most modern of Paris bridges, built some years after the Franco-Prussian war, replacing two older bridges of slight importance. Pont d’Austerlitz dates from 1806, the year of the great battle. When the Emperor fell the Allies demanded the suppression of the name, and the French Government of the day called the bridge Pont du Jardin du Roi, referring to the Jardin des Plantes in its vicinity (_see_ p. 155). The name did not catch on. The people would have none of it. It has remained a reminder of Napoléon’s victory. It has been enlarged more than once, the last time in 1885. Pont de Bercy was built in 1835, rebuilt 1864. Pont de Tolbiac, in 1895. Pont National, a footbridge, in 1853. [Illustration: PARIS _Limite des Arrondts_] INDEX TO HISTORIC PERSONS A Abelard, 91, 135 About, Edmond, 228 Affre, Monseigneur, Archbishop of Paris, 250, 289 Agnesseau, Henri d’, 200, 274 Madame de, 274 Agrippa, 147 Alba, Duque d’, 197 Albert, le Grand, Maître, 134-5 Alexander I, Czar, 217 Alexander III, Pope, 88 Amélie, Ex-Queen Dowager of Portugal, 195 Ancre, Maréchale d’, 168 Angoulême, Duc d’, 44 Angoulême, Duchesse d’ (daughter of Louis XVI), 148, 258, 161 Anjou, Charles d’, King of Naples and Sicily, 110 Anjou, Duc d’, King of Poland, 222 Anjou, Duc de, _see_ Orléans, Gaston d’ Anne d’Autriche, Queen, 14, 32, 59, 154, 188, 205, 300, 341 Anne de Bretagne, Queen, 184 Arcole, 343 Arc, Jeanne d’, 27, 209, 289 Armagnacs, the, 310 Arnaud of Andilly, recluse, 316 Arnould, Sophie, 60 Artagnan, Lieutenant-Captain d’, 22 Astley’s Circus, 241 Atkins, Mrs. (_née_ Walpole), 200, 205 Auber, 229 Aubert, M., vicaire, 134 Aubray, Antoine d’, 116 Aubriot, Prévôt de Paris (13th century), 107 Aubriot, Hugues, Prévôt du Roi, 123 Augier, Émile, 32 Aulard, Pierre, 98 Aymon, Les Quatre Fils d’, 76 B Balbi, Comtesse de, 175 Ballard, 35-6 Ballu, 26 Balsamo, Joseph, Comte de Cagliostro, 84, 303