The Story of Paris

Name: The Story of Paris
Author: Okey, Thomas

Okey, Thomas

Paris (France) -- Description and travel; Paris (France) -- History

CHAPTER XVIII

   _Execution of the King--Paris under the First
   Republic--The Terror--Napoleon--Revolutionary
   and Modern Paris_                                      271


   PART II.: THE CITY

   SECTION I

   _The Cite--Notre Dame--The Sainte Chapelle--The
   Palais de Justice_                                     295

   SECTION II

   _St. Julien le Pauvre--St. Severin--The
   Quartier Latin_                                        313

   SECTION III

   _Ecole des Beaux Arts--St. Germain des Pres--Cour
   du Dragon--St. Sulpice--The Luxembourg--The
   Odeon--The Cordeliers--The
   Surgeons' Guild--The Musee Cluny--The
   Sorbonne--The Pantheon--St.
   Etienne du Mont--Tour Clovis--Wall
   of Philip Augustus--Roman Amphitheatre_                318

   SECTION IV

   _The Louvre--Sculpture: Ground Floor_                  333

   SECTION V

   _The Louvre (continued)--Pictures: First Floor_        350

   SECTION VI

   _The Ville (S. of the Rue St. Antoine)--The
   Hotel de Ville--St. Gervais--Hotel Beauvais--Hotel
   of the Provost of Paris--SS. Paul and Louis--Hotel
   de Mayenne--Site of the Bastille--Bibliotheque
   de l'Arsenal--Hotel Fieubert--Hotel de Sens--Isle
   St. Louis_                                             400

   SECTION VII

   _The Ville (N. of the Rue St. Antoine)--Tour
   St. Jacques--Rue St. Martin--St. Merri--Rue
   de Venise--Les Billettes--Hotels
   de Soubise, de Hollande, de Rohan--Musee
   Carnavalet--Place Royale--Musee Victor
   Hugo--Hotel de Sully_                                  407

   SECTION VIII

   _Rue St. Denis--Fontaine des Innocents--Tower
   of Jean sans Peur--Cour des Miracles--St.
   Eustache--The Halles--St. Germain
   l'Auxerrois_                                           417

   SECTION IX

   _Palais Royal--Theatre Francais--Gardens and
   Cafes of the Palais Royal--Palais Mazarin
   (Bibliotheque Nationale)--St. Roch--Vendome
   Column--Tuileries Gardens--Place
   de la Concorde--Champs Elysees_                        424

   SECTION X

   _The Basilica of St. Denis and the Monuments
   of the Kings, Queens and Princes of
   France_                                                436

   _Index_                                                441




ILLUSTRATIONS


   _The Winged Victory of Samothrace
   (Photogravure) Frontispiece_

   _Map of the Successive Walls of Paris_        _facing_   1

   _The Cite_                                              11

   _Remains of Roman Amphitheatre_                         14

   _Tower of Clovis_                                       25

   _St. Germain des Pres_                                  31

   _St. Julien le Pauvre_                                  38

   _St. Germain l'Auxerrois_                               45

   _Wall of Philippe Auguste, Cour de Rouen_               67

   _La Sainte Chapelle_                                    73

   _Refectory of the Cordeliers_                           77

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