velyn's _Diary_, and Sir Samuel Romilly's _Letters_,
contain useful matter. For the chapters on Historical Paris, E.
Fournier's _Promenade Historique dans Paris_, _Chronique des Rues de
Paris_, _Enigmes des Rues de Paris_; the Marquis de Rochegude's _Guide
Pratique a Travers le Vieux Paris_; the _Dictionnaire Historique de
Paris_, by G. Pessard, and the excellent _Nouvel Itineraire Guide
Artistique et Archeologique de Paris_, by C. Normand, published by the
_Societe des Amis des Monuments Parisiens_.

For French art, Felibien's _Entretiens_; the writings of Lady Dilke;
_French Painting in the Sixteenth Century_, by L. Dimier; _Histoire de
l'Art, Peinture, Ecole Francaise_, by Cazes d'Aix and J. Berard; the
compendious _History of Modern Painting_, by R. Muther; _The Great
French Painters_, by C. Mauclair; _La Sculpture Francaise_, by L.
Gonse; _Mediaeval Art_, by W.R. Lethaby; the Catalogue of the
_Exposition des Primitifs Francais_ (1904); _Le Peinture en Europe, Le
Louvre_, by Lafenestre and Richtenberger, and the official catalogues
of the Louvre collections. All these have been largely drawn upon and
supplemented by affectionate memories of an acquaintance with Paris
and many of its citizens dating back for more than thirty years.

May we add a last word of practical counsel. Distances in Paris are
great, and the traveller who would economise time and reduce fatigue
will do well to bargain with his host to be free to take the mid-day
meal wherever his journeyings may lead him.

_April, 1906._

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION

The demolition of Old Paris has proceeded apace since the publication
of the _Story of Paris_ in 1906. The Tower of Dagobert; the old
Academy of Medicine; the Annexe of the Hotel Dieu and a whole street,
the Rue du Petit Pont; the Hotel of the Provost of Paris--all have
fallen under the housebreakers' picks. As we write the curious vaulted
entrance to the old charnel houses of St Paul is being swept away and
the revision of this little book has been a melancholy task to a lover
of historic Paris. Part II. of the work has been brought up to date
and the changes in the Louvre noted: it is much to be regretted that
the new edition of the official Catalogue of the Foreign Schools of
Painting promised by the authorities in 1909 has not yet seen the
light.

_May, 1911._

CONTENTS

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_Introduction_