Chess players at Paris, 331-333 Chilperic, marriage with Galowinthe, 21; his murder, 22; his reformed alphabet, 25 Chramm, his defeat and death, 20 Christian hierarchy, its efforts to purify the Church, 54 Church, the, its civilising genius, 24; its growing civil power, 34 Church building, expansion of, 47 Cinq-Mars, his execution, 195 Cité, the island of, 2; two islets joined to, 187; its associations, 281 Clement, Jacques, assassinates Henry III., 177 Clement V., Pope, and the Templars, 110 Clergy, attempted taxation of, 231; non-jurors, their expulsion, 272 Clisson, Hôtel de, 297 Clock tower, the, 283 Clodomir, murder of his sons by Childebert and Clothaire, 19, 20 Clothaire, his escape from assassination, 20; his death, 21 Cloud, St., foundation of monastery of, 20 Clouet, François, 310 Clouet, Jean, 310 Clouet de Navarre, 310 Clovis, 13, 15; conversion of, 17; baptism of, 18; his cruelty, 18; makes Paris his capital, 19; tower of, 288 Cluny, college of, 94 Cluny, Hôtel de, 151, 287, 322 _Code civil_, the, 264, 269 Colbert, his administrative genius, 209 Colbert, Hôtel, 316 Coligny, Admiral, his attempted assassination, 168; his murder, 170; site of his house, 303 Colleges, decadence of, 101 Collége de France, foundation of, 155 Colombe, Michel, 305 Comèdie Française, the old, 324; its origin, 324; political factions at, 325; literary factions at, 326 Commune, the, 293 Conciergerie, the, 106, 283 Concini, 192; his death, 193 Concorde, place de la, 317, 318 Condé the Great, his insolence, 205, 206 Condé, Prince of, his plot to destroy the Guises, 165; his death, 166 Condorcet, 269 Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers, 52, 299 _Contrat Social_, the, its influence, 268 Convention, the, abolishes slavery, 264; its constructive measures, 263, 264 Cordeliers, refectory of, 288 Corot, 315 Coryat, his impressions of Paris, 189 Cosme, St., 290 Cosme, St., _curé_ of, his revolutionary zeal, 180, 181 Crown, the, its absolutism, 206 Cruce slays 400 Huguenots, 172 D Dagobert the Great, 27, 28, 29 Damiens, his attack on Louis XV., 232; his horrible torture, 232 Danes, invasions of, 35 _Danseuses_, their introduction into opera, 331 Dante, his use of _artista_, 86; at Paris, 100 Danton, 261; his trial, 241 D'Artagnan, his dwelling, 303 Daubigny, 315 Dauphin, origin of title, 117, _note_ David, his genius, 314 Delacroix, paintings of, at St. Sulpice, 291; and Louvre, 314 Delaroche, 314 Denis, St., abbey of, 28 Denis, St., church of, 15; building of new church of, 79 Denis, St., de la Chartre, 31 Denis, St., du Pas, 281 Denis, St., story of, 7; body of exposed, 51 Denis, St., Rue, 293 Deputies, Chamber of, 318 Desmoulins, Camille, his revolutionary oration, 249 Diaz, 315 Diderot at Café de la Régence, 331 Dimier, his views on French School of Paintings, 307 Dionysius and his companions, their mission to Paris, 5