Old and New Paris: Its History, Its People, and Its Places, v. 2

The Church of Clovis--The Church of Sainte-Geneviève--France in the Thirteenth Century--The Building of the New Church under Louis XV.--Mirabeau and the Constituent Assembly--Th...

The Odéon--Its History--Erection of the Present Building in 1799--Marie de Médicis and the Luxemburg Palace--The Judicial Annals of the Luxemburg--Trials of Fieschi and Louvel--...

The Society of the Water-Merchants of Paris--The Navigation of the Seine--The Paris Slaughter-Houses--Records of Famine in France--The Lot of the French Peasant in the Last Cent...

Parisian Mendicancy in the Sixteenth Century--The General Hospital--Louis XV. and the Beggars--The Revolution--Mendicancy as a Regular Profession--The Organ-grinders and the Tra...

Derivation of the Name--Saint-Simon’s Description--Louis XIV.--The Grand Fête of July, 1668--Peter the Great and the Regent--Louis XV.--Marie Antoinette and the “Affair of the N...

A Parisian who is not rich enough to keep a distinguished chef of his own will occasionally order a dainty dinner to be forwarded to him from some hotel or restaurant; and in th...

Hitherto the types of character which we have noticed have been native. Let us vary them by a glance at the typical foreigner or rather foreigners residing or sojourning in Paris.

To return, however, to native Parisian types. Mention has already been made of the French spy, but he is such an important and historical character that it is impossible to dism...

It has already been seen that domestics have at different periods been employed in Paris as spies.--According to Léon Gozlan, writing of his own period, “the police of Paris is...

In our last few chapters we have been glancing about Paris for different types of character. These are sufficiently varied even where they are not absolutely dissimilar from eac...

We have already searched the streets of Paris for types of character. Let us proceed to look at one or two characteristic street objects, after first taking a general view of th...

Of all the Paris thoroughfares the most important, in a commercial sense, is the Seine, which enters the city from the east to flow out in the direction of the south-west. The S...

Permanent head-quarters of science and study, the left bank of the Seine was also in the fifteenth century the home of a great religious movement, by which, for some time, the r...

The three principal establishments in France connected with “superior instruction” are the College of France, an independent institution where lectures free to everyone are deli...

The Sorbonne owes its origin and its name to Robert de Sorbonne, chaplain and confessor to Louis IX. Like so many other scholars of the same period, this priest had been compell...

The Institute--immediately facing the wayfarer who crosses by the Bridge of Arts from the right bank to the left--is, says M. Renan, who was himself a member of it, “one of the...

The French Academy, the most celebrated of the five academies included in the Institute, owes its origin to Cardinal de Richelieu, who had conceived the idea of basing the glory...

The Church of Clovis--The Church of Sainte-Geneviève--France in the Thirteenth Century--The Building of the New Church under Louis XV.--Mirabeau and the Constituent Assembly--Th...

Behind the church of St. Stephen-of-the-Mount, from which it is separated by the Rue Descartes, stands the Polytechnic School, founded by a decree of the National Convention on...

The street in which the Polytechnic School is situated bears its name, and descending the northern slope of the so-called “mountain of Sainte-Geneviève,” the “Street of the Seve...

The Museum of Artillery, with its varied and admirably classified collection of arms, takes us back to prehistoric times, and after exhibiting rude martial implements of dim ant...

Returning from the Museum of Artillery to the Museum of the Hôtel Cluny, we see, from the Cluny garden, the portico of the ancient church of Saint-Benoit, first transformed into...

Between the church where the hearts of royal princes were once deposited, and the catacombs where nameless human remains are still preserved, there is but little connection. It...

The Odéon--Its History--Erection of the Present Building in 1799--Marie de Médicis and the Luxemburg Palace--The Judicial Annals of the Luxemburg--Trials of Fieschi and Louvel--...

The Luxemburg, though only from time to time (and usually at intervals of several years) transformed into a High Court of Justice, has a prison permanently attached to it. The a...

From caged men to caged beasts the transition is easy and natural. The Jardin des Plantes is probably the most popular institution in Paris, and, according to certain French wri...

“To look for history in the streets of Paris,” said M. Edouard Fournier, some twenty-five years ago, “when so much of the city has been destroyed, especially during the last ten...

French idioms, and particularly slang ones, are seldom translatable into English. The cant Parisian word, however, for a pawnbroker bears quite a comic resemblance to the word e...

The Panthéon, standing on the summit of the mountain of Sainte-Geneviève, and the Luxemburg Palace, surrounded by the galleries and the garden of the same name, dominate the res...

If the Pantheon and the Luxemburg are by their size, their appurtenances, and their dominant position, the most important buildings on the left bank of the Seine, the most inter...

Starting once more from the Place Saint-Sulpice, and proceeding by the Rue Bonaparte across the Rue Jacob to the Rue des Petits Augustins, we come to the ancient Rue des Marais,...

Another of the most notable buildings on the left bank of the Seine is the Hôtel des Invalides. “There is no institution more worthy of respect,” said Montesquieu, “than the Hôt...

The Hôtel des Invalides suggests the hospitals of Paris in general; and to the briefest possible glance at these--inasmuch as we have already given much space to the famous Hôte...

Our description of the hospitals and asylums of Paris would be scarcely complete without some mention of the public madhouses. In pre-revolutionary Paris no special establishmen...

The Bièvre is a stream which, many years ago, behaved so badly in the matter of inundations that it was put under ground. Canalised subterraneously, it runs beneath or by the si...

The Palais Bourbon, situated between the Quai d’Orsay on the north and the Place de Bourgogne on the south, bears a name which is singularly inappropriate to the edifice in its...

An interesting walk on the left bank of the Seine is from the end of the Rue du Bac along the quay to the Pont des Invalides. To many persons the most remarkable house on the Qu...

An interesting book has been published, under the title of “Paris Démoli,” on the churches, houses, and buildings of various kinds which were pulled down during the work of reco...

Close to the Rue de Turenne is the Courtyard of the Dragon, inhabited for the last two centuries, even until now, by dealers in every kind of ironwork. It was here, in July, 183...

To return to the Carmelite Monastery and the Rue de Rennes, which continues its course until it reaches the Boulevard Montparnasse. This boulevard is a section of the road round...

The Seine at Paris is the scene not of much boating, but of a good deal of swimming. Baths on the Thames have never been successful: they abound on the Seine, and the Parisians,...

Fencing is in England the pastime of a few amateurs; in France it is a national art. An ingenious reason has been adduced by M. Legouvé why proficiency with the rapier should be...

The police of Paris are very strict in suppressing those trades bordering upon mendicancy, which in London are somewhat freely allowed. Many of the former hawkers of inexpensive...

The quays on the left bank of the Seine were at one time remarkable for their shops; and the book-stalls of the Quai Voltaire are still celebrated. It was on one of the quays of...

Under the ancient Monarchy journalism could scarcely be said to exist in France, and the censorship exercised over books was so severe that all political works of a critical cha...

What a number of names had the Quai Voltaire borne before receiving the illustrious one by which it has now been known for about a century! First Quai Malaquais; then Quai du Po...

During the middle ages the Palace of the Institute was one of the landmarks and limits of Paris. The rest of the left bank belonged to the agglomeration formed around the abbey...

The abbé started immediately for Edinburgh to carry out the commands of the Princess Elizabeth--in other words, to communicate to the legitimate King of France her last wishes,...

The navigation of the Seine has had remarkable effects on the commerce, and even the municipal government, of the great city traversed by this stream. Turning to the annals of t...

Passing along the left bank of the Seine, in the direction of St. Germain, arrested at every step by some historical association or some interesting object of our own time, we a...

Parisian Mendicancy in the Sixteenth Century--The General Hospital--Louis XV. and the Beggars--The Revolution--Mendicancy as a Regular Profession--The Organ-grinders and the Tra...

Derivation of the Name--Saint-Simon’s Description--Louis XIV.--The Grand Fête of July, 1668--Peter the Great and the Regent--Louis XV.--Marie Antoinette and the “Affair of the N...

Versailles, originally a pleasure abode for the most powerful of the French monarchs, had at last become a place of entertainment and of public displays for the French people wh...

No sooner had peace been signed between France and Germany than a desperate conflict took place in the streets of the capital, which led to a two months’ war between the regular...

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