320

_Cour de Dragon_ 323

_Tower and Courtyard of Hotel Cluny_ 325

_Arches in the Courtyard of the Hotel Cluny_ 329

_Interior of St. Etienne du Mont_ 332

_Diana and the Stag_ (_Jean Goujon_) " 342

_St. George and the Dragon_ (_M. Colombe_) " 344

_Triptych of Moulins_ (_Maitre de Moulins_) " 370

_Portrait of Elizabeth of Austria_ (_Francois
Clouet_) _facing_ 372

_Shepherds of Arcady_ (_Poussin_) " 376

_Landing of Cleopatra at Tarsus_ (_Lorrain_) " 378

_Embarkation for the Island of Cythera_
(_Watteau_) " 382

_Grace before Meat_ (_Chardin_) " 384

_Madame Recamier_ (_David_) " 388

_The Binders_ (_Millet_) " 394

_Landscape_ (_Corot_) " 396

_St. Gervais_ 402

_Hotel of the Provost of Paris_ 404

_West door of St. Merri_ 409

_Cloister of the Billettes, fifteenth century_ 410

_Archives Nationales, Hotel Soubise, showing
towers of Hotel de Clisson_ 411

_Tower at the corner of the Rue Vieille du Temple_ 413

_Place des Vosges, Maison de Victor Hugo_ 418

_Cathedral of St. Denis_ 437

_Plan of Paris_ " 448

_The majority of the photographs of sculpture have been taken by
Messrs._ HAWEIS AND COLES, _while most of the other photographs are
reproduced by permission of Messrs._ GIRAUDON.

[Illustration: Map of the Successive Walls of Paris.]

INTRODUCTION

The History of Paris, says Michelet, is the history of the French
monarchy: "Paris, France and the Dukes and Kings of the French, are
three ideas," says Freeman, "which can never be kept asunder." The aim
of the writer in the following pages has been to narrate the story of
the capital city of France on the lines thus indicated. Moreover, men
are ever touched by "sad stories of the death of kings," the pomp and
majesty and the fate of princes. By a pathetic fallacy their capacity
to suffer is measured by their app