Chapter 8

Parc Monceaux, Paris,108Paris, cab-drivers of,1,2compared with London,110,111,112Étoile district,107fortifications of,112high prices in,29high rents of,29home life in,25Plage,189prisons,65Roman,110St. Antoine District,109Sainte Chapelle,109St. Étienne-du-Mont,109St. Germain,109St. Jacques,109smoke of,107streets of,86,87,107,108,109Pau,191,192Pau, Gave de,168,192Peasant, costume of,126life,114-131ownership of land,114,115women,130Pelletan, M.,206Pennine Alps,143,159Percheron horses,123Perdu, Mont,165Périgueux,197,198Philippe Auguste,150Phoenician traders,164Phylloxera, the,125Pigs,123Pinay,145Pistonnage,58Plato,183Poitiers,200Poitou, plain of,144Police,64Policemen of Paris,90,91Politeness of the French,99Pont du Gard,157,195Pont du Roi,165Pratz, Mdlle. de,95,105Première Instance, Court of,61President, the,57,58Prison system,64Protective tariffs,104Protestants in France,81Provence, scenery of,163Public Instruction, Minister of,68Pyrenees, the,123,124,165,191,192Pyrimont,160

Rapidity of speech,15Reason, Festival of,197Religion of the French,76,77Rents in Paris,103,104Revolution, the,50,62,197Rheims,203Rhone, the,127,143,157,160,161-165Rhone Glacier,144,158Richard Coeur-de-Lion,153Riviera, the,169-183Road, rule of the,90Roanne,145,147Robespierre,110Rochefort,139,209Roman architecture in France,193-199Roman Catholicism,81Rouen,154,155,203

Sabatier, Paul,84St. Bartholomew, Massacre of,150St. Bénézet,157Ste. Beuve,139St. Denis, Paris,78,200,202St. Étienne,145,146St. Gaudens,166St. Georges de Boscherville,201St. Germain, Faubourg, Paris,106,111St. Gilles,163St. Jean de Luz,190,191St. Martory,166St. Maurice,158St. Michel, Mont,202St. Raphaël,173St. Rémy,197St. Valery-en-Caux,186St. Wandrille,156Sand, George,128-130Sanitation, imperfection of,88,89Saône, the,160,161Scholarships, State,69School-boy, the,73Schoolmistress, the lay,69,70Schools,85Segusiani, the,161Seine, the,11,150-157Senate, the,55Servants, female,26Sévigné, Marquise de,110Sheep,123Sherard, Mr. Robert,141Shooting parties,136Shop assistants,100Sologne, the,148Soult, Marshal,168Strabo,164Strong, Rowland,92Submarine, France and the,18Superstitions among the peasantry,131

Tancarville Castle,156Tancarville, Raoul de,201Taine, H. A.,65Tarascon,162Tarbais horses,123Tarbes,123Taxation,59indirect,60Taxis, horse-drawn, in Paris,92Telephone, inventor of,18Tenda, Col di,172Teutones,157Thiers,139Thrift, the need for,24Thriftiness of the French,14,21Toques, the,183Toulon,207,209Toulouse,166plain of,124Touquet, Le,188Tours,144Town planning in France,112Traffic of Paris,90,91,92,93,94Trees, roadside,121Tréport,187Tribunal correctionnel de l'arrondissement,61Trou du Taureau,165Trouville,183Tuileries, the, Paris,110Turbie, La,181

Universities, the,74

Valence,162Valescure,173Vallais, the,159Veuillot,139Veules,186Vienne,162,197,200Vikings, the,154Villages,120Villefranche,177Vine, the,163Vines, American,125Virgin, representations of the,76Visigothic architecture,199Vosges, the,123,143Vulgarity in illustrated papers,15,16

Waddington, Mary K.,136Washing days,138Wedding ceremonies,43,44Wellington, Duke of,168,191William the Conqueror,156,184,201Wine-grower, the,125Woman in business, the,46Women, position of, among the peasants,128

Yonne, the,152Young, Arthur,166

Zola, Émile,128

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