Nowhere may the traveller gain a better impression of the essential gaiety and sociability of the Parisian temperament than by sitting outside a café on the boulevards on a public festival and observing his neighbours and the passers-by--their imperturbable good humour; their easy manners; their simple enjoyments; their quick intelligence, alert gait and expressive gestures; the wonderful skill of the women in dress. The glittering halls of pleasure that appeal to so many travellers, the Bohemian cafés of the outer boulevards, the Folies Bergères, the Moulins Rouges, the Bals Bullier, with their meretricious and vulgar attractions, frequented by the more facile daughters of Lutetia, "whose havoc of virtue is measured by the length of their laundresses' bills," as a genial satirist of their sex has phrased it--all these manifestations of _la vie_, so unutterably dull and sordid, are of small concern to the cultured traveller. The intimate charm and spirit of Paris will be heard and felt by him not amid the whirlwind of these saturnalia largely maintained by the patronage of foreign visitors, but rather in the smaller voices that speak from the inmost Paris which we have essayed to describe. Nor can we bid more fitting adieu to our readers than by translating Goethe's words to Eckermann: "Think of the city of Paris where all the best of the realms of nature and art in the whole earth are open to daily contemplation, a world-city where the crossing of every bridge or every square recalls a great past, and where at every street corner a piece of history has been unfolded." INDEX A Abbey Lands, their extent, 34 Abbeys, their need of reform, 56 Abbo, his story of the siege of Paris, 38-43 Abbots, their varied powers, 34 Abelard, comes to Paris, 87; his school at St. Denis, 88; death of, 89 Abelard and Heloise, their house, 282 Académie Française, origin of, 200 Adam du Petit Pont, 90 Aignan's, St., remains of, 283 Amboise, Cardinal d', employs Solario, 149 Amphitheatre, Roman, 288 Anagni, humiliation of Boniface VIII. at, 107 Angelico, Fra, painting by, at Louvre, 306 Angelo's, Michael, slaves, 305 _Année terrible_, the, 261 Anselm, St., his moral force, 54 Antheric, Bishop, his courage, 42 Antoinette, Marie, her courage, 249; her sinister influence, 253, 254 Arches, triumphal, 224, 277, 278 Aristotle, his works at Paris, 99 Armagnac and Burgundian factions, their origin, 127 Armagnacs, massacre of, 129 Assembly, National, the, its patriotism, 248, 256 Attila, 13, 15 Austrasia, kingdom of, 21 Austria, Anne of, her regency, 202 Averroists at Paris, 100 B Ballet, importance of the, 330 Bal Mabille, site of, 319 Baptistry, the, 281 Barbarian invasions, 12 Barrère, 270 Barry, Mme. du, 232, 248, 302 Bartholomew, St., massacre of, 168-172 Basine and Childeric, story of, 19 Basoche, Corporation of, 327; players of, 327