[Illustration: PANORAMA OF PARIS.] TWENTY CENTURIES OF PARIS BY MABELL S. C. SMITH _ILLUSTRATED_ NEW YORK THOMAS Y. CROWELL COMPANY PUBLISHERS [Illustration: Arms of the City of Paris.] COPYRIGHT, 1913, BY THOMAS Y. CROWELL COMPANY. _Published October, 1913._ TO M. P. G. _Un rayon de soleil a ses entrées partout._ SARDOU CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. EARLIEST PARIS 1 II. MEROVINGIAN PARIS 16 III. CARLOVINGIAN PARIS 32 IV. PARIS OF THE EARLY CAPETIANS 44 V. PARIS OF PHILIP AUGUSTUS 69 VI. PARIS OF SAINT LOUIS 90 VII. PARIS OF PHILIP THE FAIR 105 VIII. PARIS OF THE EARLY VALOIS 129 IX. PARIS OF CHARLES V 153 X. PARIS OF THE HUNDRED YEARS’ WAR 165 XI. PARIS OF THE LATER FIFTEENTH CENTURY 189 XII. PARIS OF THE RENAISSANCE 199 XIII. PARIS OF THE REFORMATION 214 XIV. PARIS OF HENRY IV 230 XV. PARIS OF RICHELIEU 248 XVI. PARIS OF THE “GRAND MONARQUE” 260 XVII. PARIS OF LOUIS THE “WELL-BELOVED” 274 XVIII. PARIS OF THE REVOLUTION 287 XIX. PARIS OF NAPOLEON 310 XX. PARIS OF THE LESSER REVOLUTIONS 338 XXI. PARIS OF LOUIS NAPOLEON 355 XXII. PARIS OF TO-DAY 369 APPENDIX 385 INDEX 395 MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS Panorama of Paris _Frontispiece_ Arms of the City of Paris To-day _Copyright page_ OPPOSITE PAGE Map of Paris 1