# Historic Paris

Author: Wolff, Jetta Sophia

Genre: Category: History - European

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42722

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Historic+Paris+Wolff&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The Louvre has existed on the selfsame site from the earliest days of the history of Paris and of France. It began as a rough hunting-lodge, erected in the time of the _rois fainéants_--the “do-nothing” kings: a primitive hut-like construction in the dark wolf-haunted forest to the north of the settlement on the islets of the Seine, called Leutekia, the city of mud, on account of its marshy situation, or Loutouchezi, the watery city, by its Gallic settlers, by the Romans Lutetia Parisiorum--the Paris of that long-gone age. The name Louvre, therefore, may possibly be derived from the Latin Word _lupus_, a wolf. More probably its origin is the old word _leouare_, whence lower, louvre: a hab...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER LII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/historic-paris-42722/chapters/52/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/historic-paris-42722/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER LI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/historic-paris-42722/chapters/51/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/historic-paris-42722/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XLIX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/historic-paris-42722/chapters/49/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/historic-paris-42722/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/historic-paris-42722/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/historic-paris-42722/chapters/23/index.md)
- [CHAPTER L](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/historic-paris-42722/chapters/50/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XLVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/historic-paris-42722/chapters/46/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXVIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/historic-paris-42722/chapters/28/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/historic-paris-42722/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/historic-paris-42722/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXXVII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/historic-paris-42722/chapters/37/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XLIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/historic-paris-42722/chapters/44/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/historic-paris-42722/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/historic-paris-42722/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/historic-paris-42722/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XLIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/historic-paris-42722/chapters/43/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXXIX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/historic-paris-42722/chapters/39/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/historic-paris-42722/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/historic-paris-42722/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/historic-paris-42722/chapters/30/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/historic-paris-42722/chapters/21/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXXV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/historic-paris-42722/chapters/35/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXXII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/historic-paris-42722/chapters/32/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/historic-paris-42722/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/historic-paris-42722/chapters/29/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XLVIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/historic-paris-42722/chapters/48/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/historic-paris-42722/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXXIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/historic-paris-42722/chapters/34/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/historic-paris-42722/chapters/26/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXXVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/historic-paris-42722/chapters/36/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XLI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/historic-paris-42722/chapters/41/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/historic-paris-42722/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XL](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/historic-paris-42722/chapters/40/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXVII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/historic-paris-42722/chapters/27/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/historic-paris-42722/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXXVIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/historic-paris-42722/chapters/38/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/historic-paris-42722/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/historic-paris-42722/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXXI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/historic-paris-42722/chapters/31/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XLII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/historic-paris-42722/chapters/42/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/historic-paris-42722/chapters/24/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XLV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/historic-paris-42722/chapters/45/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/historic-paris-42722/chapters/25/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/historic-paris-42722/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXXIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/historic-paris-42722/chapters/33/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/historic-paris-42722/chapters/22/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/historic-paris-42722/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/historic-paris-42722/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XLVII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/historic-paris-42722/chapters/47/index.md)