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and the play of Gérard de Nerval, 181Printing-office, Royal, I., 307-309;of Honoré de Balsac, II.,175;of Quantin, 178Prisoners, and their cells, I., 261, 262; II.,137;famous escapes, 141, 142Prisons, II.,131-146;hygiene, food, and general internal arrangements, 145, 146Private warfare in France, I., 3Procope, Café, I., 108, 109Protestant Temple of the Oratory, I., 314Protestants:attempt to drive away the Guises, I., 22;privileges granted to them after the battle of Jarnac, 22;preparations for their massacre, 23;suspected of plots, 23;their massacre on St. Bartholomew’s Day, 26, 27;in the Bastille, 47;their burning by Henry II.,286;persecution at the Reformation, 287; II.,38;places of worship, I., 287; II.,38,43;under the Reign of Terror, 43;schools, I., 287Prussians, charges against them for conduct during the Franco-Prussian War, II.,353,354Public Aid Department, II.,335,337Public Writers, II.,3-7Quai d’Anjou, I., 291Quantin’s printing-office, II.,178Quartier Latin, The, I., 10Quinze-Vingts, The, II.,198,199Quincampoix, Rue, I., 294Rabelais, his place of burial, I., 284;place of his death, II.,157;his allusions to Francis I., 158Rachel, Mlle.:parentage and early life, I., 298;her performances at the Théâtre Molière, and admission into the Conservatoire, 298;at the Gymnase, 298, 299;at the Théâtre Français, 299Racine, and “Bajazet” and “Britannicus,” I., 3;estrangement with Molière, 174Racing, at Longchamps, I., 226; II.,254;at Champ de Mars, I., 235;as a fête, II.,255;at Chantilly, 254;at Versailles and Fontainebleau, 255Racing Club, I., 140Rag-pickers, their occupation described, I., 360, 361;commissioned to kill dogs, 362;in literature and the drama, 362-365; II.,260Railway Club, I., 139Railways, their introduction, II.,317;development checked by the accident of 1842, 318Rameau’s operas, I., 135Ramus, Peter, II.,71,72Ranes, Hôtel de, II.,174Raphael, his pictures in the Louvre, I., 206;copies of his Loggie in the School of Fine Arts, II.,176Raucourt, Mlle., Burial of, I., 58, 112, 158;narrow escape from the guillotine, 178;opposition to the Directory, 178Ravaillac, Francis, his occupation and disposition, I., 31, 32;plans the murder of Henry IV., 33;assassinates the king, is tortured and dismembered, 34, 35;suspected of firing the Palais de Justice, 253Raymond VII. absolved in Notre-Dame, I., 14Recruitment Bill of 1872, I., 65Reformation said to have begun in Paris, I., 286; II.,36;its progress, I., 288Refreshments at the Exhibition of 1889, I., 239, 240Reggio, Duke of, and his collection in the Artillery Museum, II.,84Régence, Café de la, I., 109Regnard, Birthplace of, I., 315Regnault, Henri, II.,250Regnier, the astrologer, I., 16Reign of Terror, The Opéra and drama under the, I., 88, 135, 176;its commencement, 150;number of its victims, 151;causes, 151;and the mass for the Princesse de Lamballe, 313;and massacre of inmates of prisons, II.,222;and Robespierre’s rule, 235;and the emigration, 295Relics, Worship of, II.,91Renaissance, Churches of the, I., 5Renaissance Theatre, I., 86, 93Renée, Princess, saves Protestants during the massacre of St. Bartholomew, I., 289Rentier, The, II.,23Reposoir, Le, place of meeting of the Breton Club, afterwards a Protestant Church, I., 162Republic, Monument to the, I., 84;the Opéra under the, 88, 135Republican Guard, I., 271Restaurant:origin of the word, I., 103;Banquet d’Anacréon, 85;Brébant’s, 103;Cadran Bleu, 85;of the Porte Montmartre, 103;Magny, II.,108;La Maison Dorée, I., 122, 123Restaurants of the Boulevard du Temple, I., 85;in the early days of the Restoration, 122;and the brothers from Provence, 122Retz, Count de, I., 23Revolution (1789):the first blow and Camille Desmoulins’ call to arms, 47;preparations for a rising, 49;behaviour of the National Assembly, 50;seizure of arms at the Hôtel des Invalides, 50;fall of the Bastille, 51, 52;revolutionary spirit in the provinces, 52, 54;the cry “À la lanterne!” II.,29Revolution (1830), outbreak and development, I., 169-171Révolution, Place de la, I., 146, 151Rey, M., and the fire at the Porte Saint-Martin Opera House, I., 86Rheims, Archbishop of, presentation of books to the Royal Library, I., 190Rhin, Hôtel du, I., 158Richard the Lion-hearted, Heart of, II.,91Riche, Café, I., 122Richelieu, Cardinal, and the Académie Française, I., 37;his attempt to put down duelling, 69, 349;medallion to his memory, 111;and the Pavilion of Hanover, 126;presents the Palais Royal to Louis XIII.,166;and the spy system, 272; II.,19;and the Sorbonne, II.,51Richelieu, Duc de, as a duellist, I., 350Riding School of the Tuileries, I., 165Ripley, General, offered the command of the Paris forts, II.,350Rivoli, Rue de, I., 282, 283Roads and Bridges, National School of, II.,177Robbers in Notre-Dame, I., 15;on the Pont-Neuf, 37Robespierre at the Café de la Régence, I., 109;his execution, 151;his Jacobinism, 163;at the Festival of the Supreme Being, 234, 235;and his spy system, 274;ferocity of his rule, II.,235;and the Breton Club, I., 162Roch, St., Church of, I., 158, 159Rochart, M., and the Ambigu-Comique Theatre, I., 86Rochefort, Count de, commits robberies on the Pont-Neuf, I., 37Rochefoucauld, La, and the attack on the Guises, I., 22;murdered, 26;and the Breton Club, 162Rochelle, La, Story of the Four Sergeants of, II.,218-221Rochepot, Hôtel de la, I., 286Rohan, Cardinal de, and the “affair of the diamond necklace,” II.,345Rohan, Hôtel de, I., 304Rohan-Rochefort, Princess, wife of the Duc d’Enghien, I., 59, 60;sealed packet found after her death, 61Roman specimens in the Artillery Museum, II.,86Roquette, La, prison, II.,131;its library, 132;regulations and administration, 133;precautions, 133;condemned cell, 134Rossini, I., 1;at the Théâtre des Italiens, 117;his residence, 111, 127Rothschild and Rachel, Story of, I., 336Rothschild, Baron James de, his career and character, I., 338, 339Rothschild, Mayer Anselm, early life and first speculations, I., 337;principles, death and successors, 338Rothschilds, House of the, I., 337;its growth, 338, 339;founder of the French branch, 338Rotunda, place of confinement for debtors, I., 304Rouge, Château, II.,73Rousseau on the opera, I., 134, 135;knocked down by a dog, 262;removal of his remains to the Panthéon, II.,64;and Diderot, 244;early life and works, 283;“Letters on Music” and the “Nouvelle Héloïse,” 284;and Madame D’Épinay, 284;and Voltaire, 285;death, eccentricities, and literary fame, 285Roux, Le, and the Opéra under the Republic, I., 88Rowing, II.,255Royal funerals, I., 98-102, 314; II.,94-99Royal Military School of Louis XV., I., 229, 230Royale, Place, and the accident to Henry II., I., 68;horse-market and duels, 69;statue of Louis XIII.,69;favourite quarter of the nobility, 69;and Richelieu’s house, 69Royale, Rue, I., 143Rozière, Thuriot de la, demands the surrender of the Bastille, I., 50Rue Royale Club, I., 140Ruggieri, pyrotechnist, I., 144Ruggieri, Cosmo, the magician, I., 16, 318Russian restaurants at the Exhibition of 1889, I., 239, 240Sacred Heart, Church of the, I., 340Sade, Marquis de, I., 40; II.,218,225Sainte-Beuve, a principal in a duel, I., 353;and the Magny Restaurant, II.,108;early life, 251;literary labours and humanitarian principles, 252;character and death, 253;contributions to theConstitutionnel, 270Sainval, Mlle., and theMarriage of Figaro, I., 44Sallé, Mlle., I., 322Salle Montansier, The, I., 86Salles, Saint-François de, Portrait of, I., 312Salm, Hôtel de, II.,236,237Salpêtrière, La:origin of name, II.,209;foundation and opening, 209;church, population, improvements and administration, 210;improvements of Pinel, some noted inmates and curative experiments, 211;and the Four Sergeants of La Rochelle, 218Sammerard, M. Alexandre du, and his art collection, II.,76Sand, George, and the Restaurant Magny, II.,108Santé, La, prison, II.,131Sanval, opinion of Rue St. Denis, I., 311Sardou, Victorien, and hisM. Garat, I., 84Sartine, De, and the spy system, I., 272; II.,17Sassave, Nina, I., 83Saturnalia in churches at Christmas, I., 226-228Saxe, M. Adolphe, and the outrage on the residence of M. Brandus, I., 115Saxe, Marshal, and Adrienne Lecouvreur, I., 58, 182;and Mme. Favart, 118Scavengers, II.,28Scheffer, Ary, I., 1; II.,219Schneider, Mlle., I., 84School, of Drawing, II.,106;of Fine Arts, I., 10; II.,175,176;of Maps, I., 305;of Medicine, I., 10; II.,106,107;of Mines, II.,166;of Oriental Languages, II.,177;of Roads and Bridges, II.,177Schools:headquarters, I., 355;as an agent of civilisation, 356;widespread reputation, 357Scouts’ Club, I., 140Sébastopol, Boulevard, I., 95, 292, 293Sedan-chairs, II.,30Seine, The:its winding course, I., 4;“ports,” 5;its bridges, 5; II.,34,35;the right and left banks, I., 10, 30;baths, II.,33,255;rowing and swimming, 254, 255;rights of navigation, 307;and the corporation of water-merchants, 307, 308;fairs on the banks, 308Selwyn, George, visiting Paris to see Damiens tortured, I., 18, 19Senate, The, II.,112,130,232Sens, Hôtel de, I., 35; II.,158Sergeants of La Rochelle, Story of the Four, II.,218-221Sévigné, Mme. de, Residence of, I., 67;her condemnation of coffee, 83Sévigné, Rue de, and the Musée Carnavalet, I., 67;and the Hôtel Lamoignon, I., 68Sèvres manufactory:its origin, II, 228, 229;cost to the State, 230;characteristics of the porcelain, 228, 230Shops, Antique, II.,265-267;of the Boulevards, I., 43Siam, Embassy from, I., 3Sibour, Monseigneur, his assassination, II.,66Siege of Paris, II.,348-354;arming the fortifications, 348;advance of the Prussians, 349-350;occupation of Versailles, 352;second siege under the Commune, 358, 359Siegfried, Defeat of, I., 7Sieyès and the Breton Club, I., 163Simon, the Temple gaoler, and the supposed escape of Louis XVII., I., 70, 71Simon, Saint-, the association which he founded, and the rules of his followers, I, 119Simon, Saint-, description of Versailles, II.,338-340Slaughter-houses, II.,308-310Smith, Sir Sidney, his escape from the Temple prison effected by Boisgerard, I., 72, 73Society of Men of Letters, I., 103Society of Musical Artists, I., 315Soissons, Hôtel de, I., 318Sorbonne, The:its founder, II.,49;its teaching and influence, 50;its condemnation of Joan of Arc, and various decrees, 50, 51;and Cardinal de Richelieu, 51;at the Revolution, 51;resuscitated, 52;famous professors, and views of Mercier, 52, 53Sorcerers, Burning, I., 3Sorcery in Paris, I., 16, 42Sorel, Agnes:her château in the wood of Vincennes, and her treatment by the Parisians, I., 64Soubise, Hôtel de, I., 304Soult, Marshal, and the story of Murillo’s “Conception of the Virgin,” I., 206;and Marshal Ney, II.,103Spain, Campaign in, represented on the stage, I., 75Spanish garrison, The, and Henry IV., I., 314“Spartans,” The, I., 103Speculators, Successful, I., 295Spontini’s operas, I., 135Sporting Club, I., 140Sports and diversions, II.,254-256Spy system, I., 271-275; II.,17-19Stage, The, denounced by the church, I., 56Stalls, Old wooden, II.,265States-General, II.,232Steel, Manufacture of, II.,236Steeple-chases, II.,287,288Stone Age, Specimens in the Artillery Museum of the, II.,85Strasburg, Boulevard, I., 95Strasburg, The revolutionary spirit in, I., 52, 54Street-musicians, II.,327,328Streets:nomenclature, and system of numbering houses, II.,28;lighting, 28;scavengers, 28;vehicles, 30-32Strolling players, II.,20Students: I., 250;in the Middle Ages, 355;characteristics, 345, 355;at the Revolution and under the Directory, 357;in 1814, 357;in 1819, 358;and the death of Lallemand, 358, 359;at the Revolution of 1830, 359;and the death of Papu, 359;their present indifference to politics, 359;anecdote, 359;in the Quartier Latin, II.,65;assembling in the Place Maubert, 71Sulpice, St., Church of:antiquity and history, II.,171,172;architecture, sculpture, pictures and organ, 172;harpsichord of Marie Antoinette, 173;re-named at the Revolution, 173Sunday in Paris and in London, II.,12Superstitions of past times, I., 4, 16Swimming-baths, II.,255Swiss Guard, their heroism, I., 170Synagogue, of the Rue Notre Dame de Nazareth, I., 304, 339;in the Rue de la Victoire, 340Talleyrand, at the national celebration in the Champ de Mars, I., 232;his house in the Rue de Grenelle, II.,239;his career, 239-241;death-bed anecdote, 241;and the Breton Club, I., 62Talma, I., 103, 176, 350Talmont, Princesse de, and the arrest of her lacquey, I., 63Tapestries in the Cluny Museum, II.,80Tavanne, Marshal de, I., 23Taverns, II.,308Tax on theatres, I., 175; II.,335Teligni, Count, Assassination of I., 26Templars, Arrest and execution of, I., 276;sequestration of their property, 303Temple, The, and the imprisonment of Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette, I., 70;the escape of Sir Sidney Smith, 72, 73Temple, Boulevard du, I., 70, 80, 85“Temple of Hymen,” I., 299Temple Market, I., 303, 304Temple of the Oratory, Protestant, I., 314Temple, Rue du, and the Assassination of the Duke of Burgundy, I., 2;and the Templars, 303Temple of Terpsichore, Madeleine Guimard’s, I., 127Tennis-ground of the Count d’Artois, I., 84Théâtre, Beaujolais, I., 183;Beaumarchais, I., 43, 67;du Châtelet, I., 291, 292;Château d’Eau, I., 85;Dejazet, I., 84;Folies Saint-Germain, II.,89;Français, I., 11, 44-46, 111;Gaieté, I., 302, 303;Guénégaud, I., 174;des Italiens, I., 117;L’illustre, II.,291;du Marais, I., 174; II.,110;of the Marble Table, I., 250, 252;Molière, I., 298;Montparnasse, II.,250;Odéon, I., 175; II.,110,291,292;Opéra Comique, I., 292;Palais Royal, I., 184;Panthéon, II.,89;Renaissance, I., 86, 93;Variétés, I., 103, 104Theatres:and military spectacles, I., 75;in the Boulevard du Temple, 76;in the Rue de Bondi, 85, 86;their discomforts, 131, 132;military guards, 132;taxation, 175; II.,335;thepetite loge, I., 184Theo, Mlle., I., 93Thermes, Palais des, II.,73,74Thierry, Édouard, librarian at the Arsenal, I., 290Thiers, M., and the fortifications of Paris, I., 7, 8;his description of the coronation of Napoleon, 20;and the attempt on the life of Louis Philippe, 77;fights a duel, 351;and the Commune, II.,356Thieving, Ancient punishment for, I., 3Thomas, M. Ambroise, and the Conservatory of Music, I., 335Tiberius erecting an altar on the future site of Notre-Dame, I., 3Tight-rope dancers, I., 226Tobacco factory, II.,154,155Tobacconists, II.,155Tomb of King Dagobert, I., 102Torpane, Hôtel de, II.,160Torturing criminals, I., 4, 17, 18, 34, 35, 79, 80; II.,136Tournon, François de, II.,166Tower of Nesle, II.,288Trades, Petty, II.,259-266Tradesmen living above their shops, I., 311Trianon, II.,340Tribunal of Commerce, I., 267, 269, 294Tribunal of police, I., 262Tricolour, Assumption of the, at the Revolution of 1789, I., 48, 246“Tricoteuses,” II.,361Triumphal Arch:Porte Saint-Martin, I, 93;Champs Élysées, 59, 218, 224, 225Trocadéro, The, I., 241Trochu, General, and the defence of Paris, II.,350Tuileries Palace:dome, I., 5;destroyed by the Communists, 201, 216; II.,359;new palace built by Catherine de Médicis, I., 206;its early royal residents, 207;occupied by the French Opera Company, 207;crowning of Voltaire, 207;and Louis XVI., 207, 208, 211-214;the gardens, 215, 216;meetings of the Convention, 215;Napoleon I. and other royal residents, 215;the famous chestnut-tree, 217;and the Legislative Body, II.,236Turc, Café, I., 80Turgot, I., 301Turks, The, at Vienna in 1683 and their introduction of coffee, I., 82Typography, Masterpieces of, I., 307, 308Underground Paris and the Catacombs, II.,99-101Union Club, I., 140University of Paris:date of origin, II.,45;international teaching, 46;famous students, 46;privileges and government, 46;and the Jesuits, 46, 47;suspension, 47Val de Grâce, Church of, II.,90,91Vandermond, M., and the Exhibition of Machines, I., 302Variétés Theatre, I., 103, 104Vaucanson machines, I., 302Vaudeville Theatre, I., 130, 131;and the performance of theDame aux Camélias, 131Vaudrey, Colonel, and Louis Napoleon’s Strasburg Expedition, I., 95Védl, M., and Madame Rachel, I., 298Vehicles, II.,30-32Vendôme Column: I., 133;its architect and construction, 155;design and history, 155-158Vendôme, Place:its construction and its architect, I., 155;statue of Louis XIV., 155;name changed to Place des Piques, 155;Napoleon and the Column, 155;history of the Column, 155-158;Hôtel Continental, 158;Ministry of Justice and the Hôtel du Rhin, 158Venise, Rue de, and the assassination of a banker, I., 298Verdi’s operas, I., 135Vermond, Execution of, I., 35Vernet, Carle, and the Café Foy, I., 110Véron, Dr., II.,270Versailles, Palace of, and Louis XIV., II.,338;description of afêtein 1668, 340-343;visit of the Tsar in 1717, 343, 344;and Louis XV. and Louis XVI., 344, 345;invaded by the mob, 346Versailles, Town of, origin of name and Saint-Simon’s description, II.,338-340;occupied by the Prussians, 352Vertbois Tower, I., 302Victor of Nîmes and his cure fortorticolis, I., 332Victor, St., Canons of, and the leper asylum, II.,142Victoria, Queen, her visit to Paris in 1855, I., 291Vidocq, Lieutenant of Police, I., 274; II.,18Villon, François, II.,89Vincennes:resort of duellists, I., 59, 62;place of confinement of the Young Pretender, 63;Agnes Sorel’s château at, 64;as a military station, 64;citadel, Gothic church and dungeon, II.,286;surrounding views, 286, 287;“Bureau de Bienfaisance,” 288Vinci, Leonardo da, his “La Joconde” in the Louvre, I., 204-206Viollet-Leduc, M., and Notre-Dame, I., 14;and the restoration of royal tombs, II.,99Virgin, Statues of the, legends connected with them, I., 266;legend of her stabbed image, 313Visconti, place of his death, II.,177Vitaux, Baron de, and his duels, I., 348Volney and the Breton Club, I., 162Voltaire:his epic “La Henriade” and the monument to Henry IV., I., 35;defence of the stage, 58;and Adrienne Lecouvreur, 58, 183;and Ninon de Lenclos, 67;crowned at the Tuileries, 207;and his purchase in the Rue Saint-Denis, 311, 312;challenges a duke, 347, 354;place of burial, II.,63;as attorney’s clerk, 72;preservation of his heart, 92;and the name of “Arout,” 107;place of death, 273;mental qualities, 274;early life and imprisonment, 274;early works, visit to England, and growth of his reputation, 275;post at Court, operas and travels, 276;Moore’s opinion of him, 276, 278;church of Ferney and ovations in Paris, 278;death and transference of remains to the Panthéon, 278, 279Vosges, Place de, I., 68Vrilliere, De la, and his mansion in the Place des Victoires, I., 322Waiters, origin and antecedents, I., 369, 370;description of their habits and occupation, 370;overcharges, 371;exceptional traits, 371;their chief ambition, 372Waldenses, Burning, I., 42War implements in the Museum of Artillery, II.,83-88Washington Club, I., 140Wax-work in the Cluny Museum, II.,79Waxen images and the priests of the League, I., 16Wechel, Christian, censured for selling the works of Erasmus, II.,179Weights and measures, II.,236,315Well at Bicêtre, II.,213Wellington, Duke of, and Marshal Ney, II.,106White Cloaks, Convent of the, I., 306Winchester, Bishop of, and Bicêtre Asylum, II.,211Wimpffen, General de, II.,358,360Witchcraft, Burning for, I., 40;popular belief in, 42Women:effect of the Revolution on them, 165, 166;at theatres, I., 184, 186;American, II.,15Work-girls, Caps of, I., 10Workmen, Costume of, I., 10;quarters and dwellings of, 335;clubs for, II.,71Workshops, National, II.,130,247Writers, Public, II.,3-7Yacht Club, I., 139Young, Arthur, Account given by, of the revolutionary outbreak in Strasburg, I., 52, 54;and the censorship of books, 126;and the Jacobin Club, 163;on Louis XVI. at the Tuileries, 208;his adventure at the springs in the Puy de Dôme, 210, 211;his description of Paris, 282, 283Young Pretender, The, confined at Vincennes, I., 63


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