Chapter 13

AAbbey Lands, their extent,34Abbeys, their need of reform,56Abbo, his story of the siege of Paris,38-43Abbots, their varied powers,34Abelard, comes to Paris,87;his school at St. Denis,88;death of,89Abelard and Heloise, their house,282Académie Française, origin of,200Adam du Petit Pont,90Aignan’s, St., remains of,283Amboise, Cardinal d’, employs Solario,149Amphitheatre, Roman,288Anagni, humiliation of Boniface VIII. at,107Angelico, Fra, painting by, at Louvre,306Angelo’s, Michael, slaves,305Année terrible, the,261Anselm, St., his moral force,54Antheric, Bishop, his courage,42Antoinette, Marie, her courage,249;her sinister influence,253,254Arches, triumphal,224,277,278Aristotle, his works at Paris,99Armagnac and Burgundian factions, their origin,127Armagnacs, massacre of,129Assembly, National, the, its patriotism,248,256Attila,13,15Austrasia, kingdom of,21Austria, Anne of, her regency,202Averroists at Paris,100BBallet, importance of the,330Bal Mabille, site of,319Baptistry, the,281Barbarian invasions,12Barrère,270Barry, Mme. du,232,248,302Bartholomew, St., massacre of,168-172Basine and Childeric, story of,19Basoche, Corporation of,327;players of,327Bastille, foundation of,123;banquet at,158;captured by the Parlement,204;story of,250-252Bazoches, Guy of, his impression of Paris,66Bedford, Duke of, Regent at Paris,130Bernard, St., his commanding genius,55;denounces Abelard,89;draws up Rule of Knights-Templars,108Bernini, his design for the Louvre,221Billettes, monastery of,299Bishops and abbots, their administrative powers,23,24,46Boniface VIII., his contest with Philip the Fair,106,107;his grandeur of soul,107,109Booksellers at Paris,190Bordone, Paris,152Botticelli, frescoes at Louvre,307Boucher,313Boulevards, the,320Bourbon, Hôtel de,186,192;plays at,323Bourg-la-Reine,60;English at,119Bourgogne, Hôtel de, comedians of,322Bouvines, victory of, its consequences,62Bridges, approaches to, fortified,36British sentries at Louvre,304Brosse, Pierre de la, his death,103Broussel, arrested and set free,203,204Brunehaut, her career and death,21,23,24Brunswick, Duke of, his proclamation,257Bullant, Jean, builds Tuileries,186Burgundians, the,12Burgundy, Dukes of,125Burke, his political nescience,262Bury, Richard de, at Paris,101Bussy, the island of,6CCafés at Paris, their introduction and growth,331-333;their importance in revolutionary times,334-336Calvin,94;at Collége de France,156Campan, Mme., her memoirs,233,245Capet, Hugh, his coronation,45;founds Capetian dynasty,45Capets, growth of Paris under,47Carlyle, his history of the Revolution,246,247Carmelites, their establishment at Paris,72Carnarvalet, Hôtel de,297Carnot,261Carrousel, the,211;arch of,277Carthusians, their establishment at Paris,72Caryatides, Salle des,164Castiglione, Rue de,316Castile, Blanche of,67Catacombs, the,302Catholic hierarchy re-established in Paris,273Cellini, Benvenuto, at Paris and Fontainebleau,152-154Cerceau, Baptiste du, continues Lescot’s Louvre,186Champaigne, Phil. de,312Champeaux, William of,87Champs Elysées,319Chardin,314Charlemagne at Paris,33;the Northmen,35;his patronage of learning,35Charles of Burgundy, his defeat by Swiss,142Charles I., effect of his trial on the revolutionists,257-259Charles V., builds the Hôtel St. Paul,121;his library,121;his love of gardens,121;his wise statesmanship,121;wall of,122Charles VI., his minority,123;his madness,124;saved from fire,125;his death and burial,130Charles VII., his acclamation as king at Melun,131;his death,138Charles VIII., his Italian campaign,148Charles IX.,166,167;his vacillation,169;doubtful story of his firing on Huguenots,173;his death,174Charonton, attribution of paintings to,309Chateauroux, Mme. de, her appeal to Louis XV.,230Châtelet, the Grand,147,300Châtelet, the Petit,146,300Chavannes, Puvis de,246,288Chénier, M. J., the revolutionary dramatist,270Chess players at Paris,331-333Chilperic, marriage with Galowinthe,21;his murder,22;his reformed alphabet,25Chramm, his defeat and death,20Christian hierarchy, its efforts to purify the Church,54Church, the, its civilising genius,24;its growing civil power,34Church building, expansion of,47Cinq-Mars, his execution,195Cité, the island of,2;two islets joined to,187;its associations,281Clement, Jacques, assassinates Henry III.,177Clement V., Pope, and the Templars,110Clergy, attempted taxation of,231;non-jurors, their expulsion,272Clisson, Hôtel de,297Clock tower, the,283Clodomir, murder of his sons by Childebert and Clothaire,19,20Clothaire, his escape from assassination,20;his death,21Cloud, St., foundation of monastery of,20Clouet, François,310Clouet, Jean,310Clouet de Navarre,310Clovis,13,15;conversion of,17;baptism of,18;his cruelty,18;makes Paris his capital,19;tower of,288Cluny, college of,94Cluny, Hôtel de,151,287,322Code civil, the,264,269Colbert, his administrative genius,209Colbert, Hôtel,316Coligny, Admiral, his attempted assassination,168;his murder,170;site of his house,303Colleges, decadence of,101Collége de France, foundation of,155Colombe, Michel,305Comèdie Française, the old,324;its origin,324;political factions at,325;literary factions at,326Commune, the,293Conciergerie, the,106,283Concini,192; his death,193Concorde, place de la,317,318Condé the Great, his insolence,205,206Condé, Prince of, his plot to destroy the Guises,165;his death,166Condorcet,269Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers,52,299Contrat Social, the, its influence,268Convention, the, abolishes slavery,264;its constructive measures,263,264Cordeliers, refectory of,288Corot,315Coryat, his impressions of Paris,189Cosme, St.,290Cosme, St.,curéof, his revolutionary zeal,180,181Crown, the, its absolutism,206Cruce slays 400 Huguenots,172DDagobert the Great,27,28,29Damiens, his attack on Louis XV.,232;his horrible torture,232Danes, invasions of,35Danseuses, their introduction into opera,331Dante, his use ofartista,86;at Paris,100Danton,261;his trial,241D’Artagnan, his dwelling,303Daubigny,315Dauphin, origin of title,117,noteDavid, his genius,314Delacroix, paintings of, at St. Sulpice,291;and Louvre,314Delaroche,314Denis, St., abbey of,28Denis, St., church of,15;building of new church of,79Denis, St., de la Chartre,31Denis, St., du Pas,281Denis, St., story of,7;body of exposed,51Denis, St., Rue,293Deputies, Chamber of,318Desmoulins, Camille, his revolutionary oration,249Diaz,315Diderot at Café de la Régence,331Dimier, his views on French School of Paintings,307Dionysius and his companions, their mission to Paris,5Discipline, collegiate,93,94Dix-huit, College of,92Dolet, Etienne, his statue,286Domenico da Cortona,148;designs Hôtel de Ville,151Dominicans, their establishment at Paris,73Dragon, Cour du,291Dubois, Abbé, his wealth and depravity,227Duke of Orleans, his murder,126EEbles, Abbot, his courage,38,41Ecclesiastical architecture, development of,47Ecole des Beaux Arts,291Edict of Nantes,182;revocation of,214;approved by eminent Churchmen,215;effect in Europe,215Education, state of, before Revolution,264Egalité, Philip,199;his vote,259Eloy, St., abbey of,31,56,57Eloy, St., bishop and goldsmith,28Elysée, the,319Émigrés, the,254,256Empire, the Second, streets of,278Encyclopedists, their aims,267English, the, at Paris,120,135,136;evacuate Paris,137;expelled from Calais,162Estampes, Madame d’,153,154Estiennes, the,143,144Estrées, Gabrielle d’,181Etienne du Mont, St.,17,151,288Etoile, arch of,277,278Eudes, Count,38,41,42Eugene III., Pope, at Paris,57Eustache, St., church of,151,303Evelyn, witnesses torture of accused prisoners,262FFerronnerie, Rue de la,185Feudalism, origin of,44Flamboyant, not a debasement of Gothic,145,noteFlandrin, frescoes by, at St. Germain des Prés,291Fleury, Cardinal, his honest administration,229Flore, Pavilion de,186Fontainebleau, school of,152Fontaine des Innocents,164Fouarre, Rue du,100Fouquet,310Foy, Café,249Fragonnard,313France, her greatness under Richelieu,195Francis I., his entry into Paris,150;the Renaissance,150;his magnificent hospitality,157;life at Paris under,157;his access of piety,158,159;his death,160Francis II. at Amboise,165Francis, St., his love of the French tongue,99Franciscans, their establishment at Paris,73Franklin, Benjamin, at Versailles,254Franks, the,13Fredegonde, her cruelty and death,21-23French language, its universality,99French people, their desire for peace,274Fromont, Nicholas,309Fronde, the,204Fronde, the second,205;defeat of,206Fulbert, Canon, his house,282Fulrad, Abbot, completes Church of St. Denis,33GGalilée, the island of,6Genevieve, St., her story,14,15;monastery of,17;shrine of,17;abbey of,30;Templars at,111Geneviève, Ste., la Petite,60Gericault, his Raft of the Medusa,314Germain, St., of Auxerre,14,27Germain, St., l’Auxerrois,31,303Germain, St., of Autun,24,25Germain, St., des Prés,23;captured by Henry IV.,178;church of,291Germain, St., Faubourg,293Gervais, St., church of,31,295Gibbon at Paris,242Giocondo, Fra, rebuilds Petit Pont and Pont Notre Dame,148Girondins, their condemnation,241Goethe, his speech at Valmy,246;his description of the revolutionary army,262Goldoni assisted by the Convention,264Gothic art of the thirteenth century,84Goths, the,12,13Goujon, Jean, his work at the Louvre,164,306;decorates the Fontaine des Innocents,164;reliefs by, at the Carnavalet,297Gozlin, his patriotism and courage,37,38,40,41Grande Galerie, the,186,191Gregory, St., of Tours,13,22Greuze,314Grève, Place de,293Guénégaud, Théâtre,324Guise, Duke Francis of, shot by a Huguenot,165Guise, Duke Henry of, his popularity at Paris,176;his assassination,177Guises, rise of the,161HHalles, les,59,148,302Halle aux Vins,60,noteHawkers,259,270Heine and the Venus de Milo,305Héloïse and Abelard, loves of,88;their grave at Paris,89Henry I., son of Robert the Pious, his accession,51Henry II., his death,162Henry III., his coronation,175;his assassination,177Henry IV., his conversion,181;his patriotism,181,184;his divorce,182;his assassination,185;his architectural achievements,187;his statue,197Henry V. of England,128;death and burial of,130Henry V. and Charles VI., entry into Paris,131Heretics, first execution of,49Hervé and his eleven companions, their heroism,40,41Hierarchy, the, its unpopularity,272Holbein,307Homme Armé, Rue de l’,135,297Horloge, Pavilion de l’,198Host, miracle of sacred,299Hôtel Dieu, foundation of,31;rules of,76;site of,281Hôtel St Paul,121Hôtel des Tournelles,140,146Hôtel de Ville,279,293,295Hugh (Eudes), Count, his heroism,38,41,42Hugo, Victor, his exile and return,274;his house,297Huguenots, hostility of Parisians to,167IInfanta, Garden of,229;betrothed to Louis XV.,229Ingres,314Innocent II., Pope, at Paris,59Innocents, Cemetery of,148Innocents, Square des,301Institut, the,207Invalides, Hôpital des,223Irish College,286Italian College,286Ivry, battle of,179JJacobins,197;their aims,267;their supreme service to France,268Jacquerie, the,118


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