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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

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_