Cabourg,184Caen,88,201Caesar, Gaius Julius,10Cafés, the,86,87,88,113Calvaries, roadside,122Cannes,170,174Canton, the,60Carcassonne,198Carmargue, the,163Carnac, prehistoric remains at,194Carnavalet, Musée, Paris,109Carts, country,118Casino, the,171,176,178Cassation, Cour de,63Catherine de Medici,150Cattle,123Caudebec,155,156Cevennes, the,115,123,145,146peasants of,128-130Charente, the,144Chartres,202Château Gaillard,153Châteaulife,133-137Châtillon,152Chaumont, Château de,150Chenonceaux, Château de,150Cherbourg,205,209Chestnuts,115Children, training of,38,39Churches,78attendance at,78decorations in,79,80irreverent behaviour in,78Church-going, women and,79Cimbri,157Civil Code, the,14,42,47,66Cleanliness,33Clermont-Ferrand,200Cluny, Hôtel, Paris,110Coal consumption,29Concierge, the,38,97,98,99Conciergerie, the, Paris,110Conscription,210Constantine, Emperor,196Constitution, the French,50,51,52,53Conversation in thechâteau,139Cooking, French,2,3Corniche Roads, the,179,180,181Corrèze,115Costebelle,173Crau, La,163,164Critical faculty of the French,20Curé, the,83,84,85
Deauville,183Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, the,50,51,52Demolins, M.,71Deputies, Chamber of,55salaries of,59Diane de Poitiers,150Dieppe,187Dinard,189Discipline, lack of,47Dive, the,184Divorce laws,44,45Doctors, fees of,131,132d'Or, Iles,173Dordogne, the,167Dot, the,47Dreyfus, Captain A.,63Duelling,139-142Dumas, the elder,139Durance, the,164
Ebro, the,151Economies of the French,21Education, expenditure on,67,68Education and social status,75Educational system,72Edward the Confessor,156Edward VII., King,190English Channel, the,6Épernay,126Esplanade, on the Riviera, the,176,177Essonne, the,152Estérel Mountains,173,174Étaples,189Étoile district of Paris,89Étretat,153,184,185Eu,187Euric, king of the Visigoths,166Evreux,204
Faculties, the State,75Family Council, the,34,35Farms,119,120Fécamp,186Five o'clock, le,135Flail, use of,118Flamboyant style,204Fontainebleau, forest of,124Food, high cost of,105Forests of France,124Forez, plain of,146France as a colonising nation,48Franchise, the,56Franks, the,10Fréjus,173French enterprise,65French people, origin of,11,12,32Frenchwomen, dress of,2Funerals,79Furnishing of thechâteau,135,136Furniture, household,28
Galatia,10Gallia Comata,161Games atLycées,72Garavan,170,182Gard, the,162,195Garde républicaine, the,64,93Garonne, the,144,164-167Gascons, the,11Gaul, early tribes of,7,8Gauls, the,9Gendarmerie, the,64Geneva, Lake of,159,164George, Mr. W. L.,81Gironde, the,167Gisors,204Golf-courses,171,188Grievances, endurance of,49,50redress of,19Gris Nez, Cape,6,153Guise, Duc de,150
Habeas Corpus, the right of,52Hannibal,157Hardelot,189Harfleur,156Hausmann, the architect,113Havre, Le,156Hedges, lack of,121Holdings, average size of,116Holmes, Mr. T. Rice,33Home life,25Home-sur-Mer, Le,184Honfleur,156Hope, Sir John,168Horses, breeding of,122,123Hotels,3Hotels, French and English, contrasted,32,33Household furnishing,26repairs,26Housemaid's work done by men,25Housing,37in Paris,104Huguenots,150Hunting parties,136Husbandry, primitive,117Hyères,172
Ideas, the great, of the French,17,18Inscription maritime,208Institut de France,75Irreligion,82,83
Jeune fillethe,39,40,46,69Jewish communities,81Juge d'instruction,63Juge de paix,35,61,62,63Jumièges, Abbey of,156Jura, the,123,143
Lamartine,139Landais, the,11Landes, Les,123,124Langeais, Château de,150Language, the French,8,11Langres, Plateau de,152Lannemezan, plateau of,165Lauzan, Hôtel de, Paris,110Le Parc,160Le Puy-en-Velay,76,146,200Liberté, destruction of the,207Libourne,167Lillebonne,156,198Locke, Mr. J. W.,113Loing, the,152Loire, the,144-150,156Lorient,209Louis XIV.,110Louvre, Palais du, Paris,110Lugdunum,161Lutetia Parisiorum,110Lycées, the,39,68,69,70,72,74Lycéesfor girls,69Lyons,61,160,161,162,198
Madeleine, the,44Maeterlinck,156Mairie, the,43Maison paternelle, la,35,38Maladetta Chain,165Mariage d'inclination, the,40Marie Antoinette,110Maritime Alps,164Marketing,30,103Marne, the,152Marriage, enquiries before,24parental control of,40,41,42Martin, Cap,181Martinière, La,148Mary Stuart,150Maure Mountains,173Meals,31Meat, the cutting of,32Medical services in the country,31Megalithic remains of Brittany,7Mentone,181,182Merovingian architecture,198,199,200Métayagesystem, the,117Métayers,117Meudon Woods,141Midi, the,118Midinette, the,13,33,94,95,96Ministry, the,56Misconceptions concerning France,13Mistral, the,163Monaco,177Prince of,178Monopolies, State,60Montaigne,140Monte Bego,118Monte Carlo,177,178,179Montmartre,107Mont St. Michel,202Morals of the French,16,17Moselle, the,151Mules,122
Nantes,148Napoleon,67,140modern France the work of,65Napoleon III.,55Napoule, La,171,174Narbonne,10,126,198National debt,60Navy, the,205-209Neste, the,165Nevers,147Nice,171,176,177Nîmes,162,194Normandy,115,116,118,119,122,123,126,208architecture of,201people of,12Notre Dame, Paris,203Noyon,202Nuns as medical practitioners,132
Odours of France,5Oiseaux, Montagnes des,173Olive, the,162Omnibuses of Paris,91,101Orange,162,196Orleans, Forêt d',124Orne, the,184Orthez,168Oxen, draught,118,124