The French Hospital System--The Laënnec Hospital--The Houses of Assistance--The Quinze-Vingts--Deaf and Dumb Institutions--The Abbé de l’Épée--La Charité.....193 CHAPTER XXIX. LUNATIC ASYLUMS AND MIXED INSTITUTIONS. The Treatment of Lunacy in the Past--La Salpêtrière--Bicêtre--The Story of Latude--The Four Sergeants of La Rochelle--Pinel’s Reforms--Charenton.....207 CHAPTER XXX. THE RIVER BIÈVRE AND THE MANUFACTORY OF THE GOBELINS. The Brothers Gobelin--Lebrun--The Gobelins under Louis XIV.--At the Time of the Revolution--The Manufactory of Sèvres.....225 CHAPTER XXXI. THE PALAIS BOURBON. The Palais Bourbon--Its History--The National Convention--Philippe Égalité.....231 CHAPTER XXXII. SOME HISTORICAL RESIDENCES. The Palace of the Legion of Honour--The Ministry of War--The Rue de Grenelle--Talleyrand.....236 CHAPTER XXXIII. THE RUE TARANNE AND DIDEROT. Diderot’s Early Life in Paris--His Love Affairs--Imprisonment in the Château de Vincennes--Diderot and Catherine II. of Russia--His Death.....242 CHAPTER XXXIV. MONSEIGNEUR AFFRE AND THE INSURRECTION OF JUNE. The Courtyard of the Dragon--The National Workshops--The Insurrection of June--Monseigneur Affre Shot at the Barricade of the Faubourg St. Antoine.....247 CHAPTER XXXV. SOME OCCUPANTS OF MONTPARNASSE. The Boulevard Montparnasse--The Cemetery--Father Loriquet--Hégésippe Moreau--Sainte-Beuve.....250 CHAPTER XXXVI. SPORTS AND DIVERSIONS. Le “Sport”--Longchamps--Versailles Races--Fontainebleau--The Seine--Swimming Baths--The Art of Book-collecting.....254 CHAPTER XXXVII. FENCING SCHOOLS. Fencing in France--A National Art--Some Extracts from the Writings of M. Legouvé, One of its Chief Exponents--The Old Style of Fencing and the New.....257 CHAPTER XXXVIII. PETTY TRADES. Petty Trades--Their Origins--The Day-Banker--The Guardian Angel--The Old-Clothesman--The Claque--Its First Beginning and Development.....259 CHAPTER XXXIX. OBSOLETE PARIS SHOPS. The Old Wooden Stalls of Forty Years Ago--The “Lucky Fork”--The Cobbler’ Shops--The Old Cafés.....265 CHAPTER XL. THE PARIS PRESS. French Governments and the Press--The Press under Napoleon--Some Account of the Leading Paris Papers--The _Figaro_.....268 CHAPTER XLI. FROM THE QUAI VOLTAIRE TO THE PANTHÉON. The Quai Voltaire--Its Changes of Name--Voltaire--His Life in Paris and Elsewhere--His Remains laid in the Panthéon--Mirabeau--Rousseau--Vincennes.....273 CHAPTER XLII. THE PALAIS MAZARIN AND THE RUE MAZARINE. The Institute or Palais Mazarin--The Rue Mazarine--L’Illustre Théâtre--Molière--The Theatre Français--The Odéon--Heine--The Faubourg Saint-Germain--Historical Associations.....288 CHAPTER XLIII. THE PARIS RIVER AND PARIS COMMERCE. The Society of the Water-Merchants of Paris--The Navigation of the Seine--The Paris Slaughter-Houses--Records of Famine in France--The Lot of the French Peasant in the Last Century--The Paris Food Supply.....307 CHAPTER XLIV. THE BARRIERS--PARISIAN CRIME.