The demolition of Old Paris has proceeded apace since the publication of the _Story of Paris_ in 1906. The Tower of Dagobert; the old Academy of Medicine; the Annexe of the Hotel Dieu and a whole street, the Rue du Petit Pont; the Hotel of the Provost of Paris--all have fallen under the housebreakers' picks. As we write the curious vaulted entrance to the old charnel houses of St Paul is being swept away and the revision of this little book has been a melancholy task to a lover of historic Paris. Part II. of the work has been brought up to date and the changes in the Louvre noted: it is much to be regretted that the new edition of the official Catalogue of the Foreign Schools of Painting promised by the authorities in 1909 has not yet seen the light. _May, 1911._ CONTENTS PAGE _Introduction_ 1 PART I.: THE STORY CHAPTER I _Gallo-Roman Paris_ 9 CHAPTER II _The Barbarian Invasions--St. Genevieve--The Conversion of Clovis--The Merovingian Dynasty_ 20 CHAPTER III _The Carlovingians--The Great Siege of Paris by the Normans--The Germs of Feudalism_ 35 CHAPTER IV _The Rise of the Capetian Kings and the Growth of Feudal Paris_ 51 CHAPTER V _Paris under Philip Augustus and St. Louis_ 64 CHAPTER VI _Art and Learning at Paris_ 84 CHAPTER VII _Conflict with Boniface VIII.--The States-General--The Destruction of the Knights-Templars--The Parlement_ 107 CHAPTER VIII _Etienne Marcel--The English Invasions--The Maillotins--Murder of the Duke of Orleans--Armagnacs and Burgundians_ 121 CHAPTER IX _Jeanne D'Arc--Paris under the English--End of the English Occupation_ 138 CHAPTER X _Louis XI. at Paris--The Introduction of Printing_ 144 CHAPTER XI _Francis I.--The Renaissance at Paris_ 151 CHAPTER XII _Rise of the Guises--Huguenot and Catholic--The Massacre of St. Bartholomew_ 171 CHAPTER XIII _Henry III.--The League--Siege of Paris by Henry IV.--His Conversion, Reign and Assassination_ 186 CHAPTER XIV _Paris under Richelieu and Mazarin_ 204 CHAPTER XV _The Grand Monarque--Versailles and Paris_ 223 CHAPTER XVI _Paris under the Regency and Louis XV.--The brooding Storm_ 242 CHAPTER XVII _Louis XVI.--The Great Revolution--Fall of the Monarchy_ 256