TOWER OF ST. ETIENNE DU MONT 153 LA FONTAINE DES INNOCENTS 161 WEST WING OF LOUVRE BY PIERRE LESCOT 163 PETITE GALERIE OF THE LOUVRE 174 HÔTEL DE SULLY 183 PLACE DES VOSGES 188 OLD HOUSES NEAR PONT ST. MICHEL, SHOWING SPIRE OF THE STE. CHAPELLE 190 THE MEDICI FOUNTAIN, LUXEMBOURG GARDENS 196 PONT NEUF 198 THE INSTITUT DE FRANCE 208 RIVER AND PONT ROYAL 225 SOUTH DOOR OF NOTRE DAME 237 INTERIOR OF ST. ETIENNE DU MONT 239 HÔTEL DE VILLE FROM RIVER 279 NOTRE DAME, SOUTH SIDE 282 ST. SÉVERIN 285 TOWER AND COURTYARD OF HOTEL CLUNY 287 OLD ACADEMY OF MEDICINE 289 COUR DU DRAGON 292 ST. GERVAIS 294 PLACE DES VOSGES, MAISON DE VICTOR HUGO 296 ARCHIVES NATIONALES IN HÔTEL SOUBISE, SHOWING TOWERS OF HÔTEL DE CLISSON 298 NEAR THE PONT NEUF 303 ARCHES IN THE COURTYARD OF THE HÔTEL CLUNY 322 _The majority of the three-colour, half-tone and line blocks used in this book have been made by the Graphic Photo-Engraving Co., London._ LIST OF MAPS PLAN OF THE HISTORIC LOUVRE FROM BLONDEL'S DRAWING xxiii MAP OF THE SUCCESSIVE WALLS OF PARIS xxiv PLAN OF PARIS WHEN BESIEGED BY HENRY IV. IN 1590, _facing page_ 175 [Illustration: PLAN OF THE HISTORIC LOUVRE FROM BLONDEL'S DRAWING THE SITE OF THE OLD LOUVRE BEING ADDED.] [Illustration: MAP OF THE SUCCESSIVE WALLS OF PARIS] PARIS AND ITS STORY CHAPTER I GALLO-ROMAN PARIS The mediæval scribe in the fulness of a divinely-revealed cosmogony is wont to begin his story at the creation of the world or at the confusion of tongues, to trace the building of Troy by the descendants of Japheth, and the foundation of his own native city by one of the Trojan princes made a fugitive in Europe by proud Ilion's fall. Such, he was very sure, was the origin of Padua, founded by Antenor and by Priam, son of King Priam, whose grandson, yet another Priam, by his great valour and wisdom became the monarch of a mighty people, called from their fair hair, Galli or Gallici. And of the strong city built on the little island in the Seine who could have been its founder but the ravisher of fair Helen--Sir Paris himself? The naïve etymology of the time was evidence enough.