and the play of Gérard de Nerval, 181
Printing-office, Royal, I., 307-309;
of Honoré de Balsac, II., 175;
of Quantin, 178
Prisoners, and their cells, I., 261, 262; II., 137;
famous escapes, 141, 142
Prisons, II., 131-146;
hygiene, food, and general internal arrangements, 145, 146
Private warfare in France, I., 3
Procope, Café, I., 108, 109
Protestant Temple of the Oratory, I., 314
Protestants:
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., 287
Prussians, charges against them for conduct during the Franco-Prussian War, II., 353, 354
Public Aid Department, II., 335, 337
Public Writers, II., 3-7

Quai d’Anjou, I., 291
Quantin’s printing-office, II., 178
Quartier Latin, The, I., 10
Quinze-Vingts, The, II., 198, 199
Quincampoix, Rue, I., 294

Rabelais, his place of burial, I., 284;
place of his death, II., 157;
his allusions to Francis I., 158
Rachel, 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, 299
Racine, and “Bajazet” and “Britannicus,” I., 3;
estrangement with Molière, 174
Racing, at Longchamps, I., 226; II., 254;
at Champ de Mars, I., 235;
as a fête, II., 255;
at Chantilly, 254;
at Versailles and Fontainebleau, 255
Racing Club, I., 140
Rag-pickers, their occupation described, I., 360, 361;
commissioned to kill dogs, 362;
in literature and the drama, 362-365; II., 260
Railway Club, I., 139
Railways, their introduction, II., 317;
development checked by the accident of 1842, 318
Rameau’s operas, I., 135
Ramus, Peter, II., 71, 72
Ranes, Hôtel de, II., 174
Raphael, his pictures in the Louvre, I., 206;
copies of his Loggie in the School of Fine Arts, II., 176
Raucourt, Mlle., Burial of, I., 58, 112, 158;
narrow escape from the guillotine, 178;
opposition to the Directory, 178
Ravaillac, 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, 253
Raymond VII. absolved in Notre-Dame, I., 14
Recruitment Bill of 1872, I., 65
Reformation said to have begun in Paris, I., 286; II., 36;
its progress, I., 288
Refreshments at the Exhibition of 1889, I., 239, 240
Reggio, Duke of, and his collection in the Artillery Museum, II., 84
Régence, Café de la, I., 109
Regnard, Birthplace of, I., 315
Regnault, Henri, II., 250
Regnier, the astrologer, I., 16
Reign 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, 295
Relics, Worship of, II., 91
Renaissance, Churches of the, I., 5
Renaissance Theatre, I., 86, 93
Renée, Princess, saves Protestants during the massacre of St. Bartholomew, I., 289
Rentier, The, II., 23
Reposoir, Le, place of meeting of the Breton Club, afterwards a Protestant Church, I., 162
Republic, Monument to the, I., 84;
the Opéra under the, 88, 135
Republican Guard, I., 271
Restaurant:
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, 123
Restaurants of the Boulevard du Temple, I., 85;
in the early days of the Restoration, 122;
and the brothers from Provence, 122
Retz, Count de, I., 23
Revolution (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., 29
Revolution (1830), outbreak and development, I., 169-171
Révolution, Place de la, I., 146, 151
Rey, M., and the fire at the Porte Saint-Martin Opera House, I., 86
Rheims, Archbishop of, presentation of books to the Royal Library, I., 190
Rhin, Hôtel du, I., 158
Richard the Lion-hearted, Heart of, II., 91
Riche, Café, I., 122
Richelieu, 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., 51
Richelieu, Duc de, as a duellist, I., 350
Riding School of the Tuileries, I., 165
Ripley, General, offered the command of the Paris forts, II., 350
Rivoli, Rue de, I., 282, 283
Roads and Bridges, National School of, II., 177
Robbers in Notre-Dame, I., 15;
on the Pont-Neuf, 37
Robespierre 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., 162
Roch, St., Church of, I., 158, 159
Rochart, M., and the Ambigu-Comique Theatre, I., 86
Rochefort, Count de, commits robberies on the Pont-Neuf, I., 37
Rochefoucauld, La, and the attack on the Guises, I., 22;
murdered, 26;
and the Breton Club, 162
Rochelle, La, Story of the Four Sergeants of, II., 218-221
Rochepot, Hôtel de la, I., 286
Rohan, Cardinal de, and the “affair of the diamond necklace,” II., 345
Rohan, Hôtel de, I., 304
Rohan-Rochefort, Princess, wife of the Duc d’Enghien, I., 59, 60;
sealed packet found after her death, 61
Roman specimens in the Artillery Museum, II., 86
Roquette, La, prison, II., 131;
its library, 132;
regulations and administration, 133;
precautions, 133;
condemned cell, 134
Rossini, I., 1;
at the Théâtre des Italiens, 117;
his residence, 111, 127
Rothschild and Rachel, Story of, I., 336
Rothschild, Baron James de, his career and character, I., 338, 339
Rothschild, Mayer Anselm, early life and first speculations, I., 337;
principles, death and successors, 338
Rothschilds, House of the, I., 337;
its growth, 338, 339;
founder of the French branch, 338
Rotunda, place of confinement for debtors, I., 304
Rouge, Château, II., 73
Rousseau 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, 285
Roux, Le, and the Opéra under the Republic, I., 88
Rowing, II., 255
Royal funerals, I., 98-102, 314; II., 94-99
Royal Military School of Louis XV., I., 229, 230
Royale, 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, 69
Royale, Rue, I., 143
Rozière, Thuriot de la, demands the surrender of the Bastille, I., 50
Rue Royale Club, I., 140
Ruggieri, pyrotechnist, I., 144
Ruggieri, Cosmo, the magician, I., 16, 318
Russian restaurants at the Exhibition of 1889, I., 239, 240

Sacred Heart, Church of the, I., 340
Sade, Marquis de, I., 40; II., 218, 225
Sainte-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 the Constitutionnel, 270
Sainval, Mlle., and the Marriage of Figaro, I., 44
Sallé, Mlle., I., 322
Salle Montansier, The, I., 86
Salles, Saint-François de, Portrait of, I., 312
Salm, Hôtel de, II., 236, 237
Salpêtrière, 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, 218
Sammerard, M. Alexandre du, and his art collection, II., 76
Sand, George, and the Restaurant Magny, II., 108
Santé, La, prison, II., 131
Sanval, opinion of Rue St. Denis, I., 311
Sardou, Victorien, and his M. Garat, I., 84
Sartine, De, and the spy system, I., 272; II., 17
Sassave, Nina, I., 83
Saturnalia in churches at Christmas, I., 226-228
Saxe, M. Adolphe, and the outrage on the residence of M. Brandus, I., 115
Saxe, Marshal, and Adrienne Lecouvreur, I., 58, 182;
and Mme. Favart, 118
Scavengers, II., 28
Scheffer, Ary, I., 1; II., 219
Schneider, Mlle., I., 84
School, 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., 177
Schools:
headquarters, I., 355;
as an agent of civilisation, 356;
widespread reputation, 357
Scouts’ Club, I., 140
Sébastopol, Boulevard, I., 95, 292, 293
Sedan-chairs, II., 30
Seine, 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, 308
Selwyn, George, visiting Paris to see Damiens tortured, I., 18, 19
Senate, The, II., 112, 130, 232
Sens, Hôtel de, I., 35; II., 158
Sergeants of La Rochelle, Story of the Four, II., 218-221
Sévigné, Mme. de, Residence of, I., 67;
her condemnation of coffee, 83
Sévigné, Rue de, and the Musée Carnavalet, I., 67;
and the Hôtel Lamoignon, I., 68
Sèvres manufactory:
its origin, II, 228, 229;
cost to the State, 230;
characteristics of the porcelain, 228, 230
Shops, Antique, II., 265-267;
of the Boulevards, I., 43
Siam, Embassy from, I., 3
Sibour, Monseigneur, his assassination, II., 66
Siege 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, 359
Siegfried, Defeat of, I., 7
Sieyès and the Breton Club, I., 163
Simon, the Temple gaoler, and the supposed escape of Louis XVII., I., 70, 71
Simon, Saint-, the association which he founded, and the rules of his followers, I, 119
Simon, Saint-, description of Versailles, II., 338-340
Slaughter-houses, II., 308-310
Smith, Sir Sidney, his escape from the Temple prison effected by Boisgerard, I., 72, 73
Society of Men of Letters, I., 103
Society of Musical Artists, I., 315
Soissons, Hôtel de, I., 318
Sorbonne, 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, 53
Sorcerers, Burning, I., 3
Sorcery in Paris, I., 16, 42
Sorel, Agnes:
her château in the wood of Vincennes, and her treatment by the Parisians, I., 64
Soubise, Hôtel de, I., 304
Soult, Marshal, and the story of Murillo’s “Conception of the Virgin,” I., 206;
and Marshal Ney, II., 103
Spain, Campaign in, represented on the stage, I., 75
Spanish garrison, The, and Henry IV., I., 314
“Spartans,” The, I., 103
Speculators, Successful, I., 295
Spontini’s operas, I., 135
Sporting Club, I., 140
Sports and diversions, II., 254-256
Spy system, I., 271-275; II., 17-19
Stage, The, denounced by the church, I., 56
Stalls, Old wooden, II., 265
States-General, II., 232
Steel, Manufacture of, II., 236
Steeple-chases, II., 287, 288
Stone Age, Specimens in the Artillery Museum of the, II., 85
Strasburg, Boulevard, I., 95
Strasburg, The revolutionary spirit in, I., 52, 54
Street-musicians, II., 327, 328
Streets:
nomenclature, and system of numbering houses, II., 28;
lighting, 28;
scavengers, 28;
vehicles, 30-32
Strolling players, II., 20
Students: 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, 71
Sulpice, 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, 173
Sunday in Paris and in London, II., 12
Superstitions of past times, I., 4, 16
Swimming-baths, II., 255
Swiss Guard, their heroism, I., 170
Synagogue, of the Rue Notre Dame de Nazareth, I., 304, 339;
in the Rue de la Victoire, 340
Talleyrand, 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., 62
Talma, I., 103, 176, 350
Talmont, Princesse de, and the arrest of her lacquey, I., 63
Tapestries in the Cluny Museum, II., 80
Tavanne, Marshal de, I., 23
Taverns, II., 308
Tax on theatres, I., 175; II., 335
Teligni, Count, Assassination of I., 26
Templars, Arrest and execution of, I., 276;
sequestration of their property, 303
Temple, The, and the imprisonment of Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette, I., 70;
the escape of Sir Sidney Smith, 72, 73
Temple, Boulevard du, I., 70, 80, 85
“Temple of Hymen,” I., 299
Temple Market, I., 303, 304
Temple of the Oratory, Protestant, I., 314
Temple, Rue du, and the Assassination of the Duke of Burgundy, I., 2;
and the Templars, 303
Temple of Terpsichore, Madeleine Guimard’s, I., 127
Tennis-ground of the Count d’Artois, I., 84
Théâtre, 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, 104
Theatres:
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;
the petite loge, I., 184
Theo, Mlle., I., 93
Thermes, Palais des, II., 73, 74
Thierry, Édouard, librarian at the Arsenal, I., 290
Thiers, 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., 356
Thieving, Ancient punishment for, I., 3
Thomas, M. Ambroise, and the Conservatory of Music, I., 335
Tiberius erecting an altar on the future site of Notre-Dame, I., 3
Tight-rope dancers, I., 226
Tobacco factory, II., 154, 155
Tobacconists, II., 155
Tomb of King Dagobert, I., 102
Torpane, Hôtel de, II., 160
Torturing criminals, I., 4, 17, 18, 34, 35, 79, 80; II., 136
Tournon, François de, II., 166
Tower of Nesle, II., 288
Trades, Petty, II., 259-266
Tradesmen living above their shops, I., 311
Trianon, II., 340
Tribunal of Commerce, I., 267, 269, 294
Tribunal of police, I., 262
Tricolour, Assumption of the, at the Revolution of 1789, I., 48, 246
“Tricoteuses,” II., 361
Triumphal Arch:
Porte Saint-Martin, I, 93;
Champs Élysées, 59, 218, 224, 225
Trocadéro, The, I., 241
Trochu, General, and the defence of Paris, II., 350
Tuileries 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., 236
Turc, Café, I., 80
Turgot, I., 301
Turks, The, at Vienna in 1683 and their introduction of coffee, I., 82
Typography, Masterpieces of, I., 307, 308

Underground Paris and the Catacombs, II., 99-101
Union Club, I., 140
University of Paris:
date of origin, II., 45;
international teaching, 46;
famous students, 46;
privileges and government, 46;
and the Jesuits, 46, 47;
suspension, 47

Val de Grâce, Church of, II., 90, 91
Vandermond, M., and the Exhibition of Machines, I., 302
Variétés Theatre, I., 103, 104
Vaucanson machines, I., 302
Vaudeville Theatre, I., 130, 131;
and the performance of the Dame aux Camélias, 131
Vaudrey, Colonel, and Louis Napoleon’s Strasburg Expedition, I., 95
Védl, M., and Madame Rachel, I., 298
Vehicles, II., 30-32
Vendôme Column: I., 133;
its architect and construction, 155;
design and history, 155-158
Vendôme, 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, 158
Venise, Rue de, and the assassination of a banker, I., 298
Verdi’s operas, I., 135
Vermond, Execution of, I., 35
Vernet, Carle, and the Café Foy, I., 110
Véron, Dr., II., 270
Versailles, Palace of, and Louis XIV., II., 338;
description of a fête in 1668, 340-343;
visit of the Tsar in 1717, 343, 344;
and Louis XV. and Louis XVI., 344, 345;
invaded by the mob, 346
Versailles, Town of, origin of name and Saint-Simon’s description, II., 338-340;
occupied by the Prussians, 352
Vertbois Tower, I., 302
Victor of Nîmes and his cure for torticolis, I., 332
Victor, St., Canons of, and the leper asylum, II., 142
Victoria, Queen, her visit to Paris in 1855, I., 291
Vidocq, Lieutenant of Police, I., 274; II., 18
Villon, François, II., 89
Vincennes:
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,” 288
Vinci, Leonardo da, his “La Joconde” in the Louvre, I., 204-206
Viollet-Leduc, M., and Notre-Dame, I., 14;
and the restoration of royal tombs, II., 99
Virgin, Statues of the, legends connected with them, I., 266;
legend of her stabbed image, 313
Visconti, place of his death, II., 177
Vitaux, Baron de, and his duels, I., 348
Volney and the Breton Club, I., 162
Voltaire:
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, 279
Vosges, Place de, I., 68
Vrilliere, De la, and his mansion in the Place des Victoires, I., 322

Waiters, origin and antecedents, I., 369, 370;
description of their habits and occupation, 370;
overcharges, 371;
exceptional traits, 371;
their chief ambition, 372
Waldenses, Burning, I., 42
War implements in the Museum of Artillery, II., 83-88
Washington Club, I., 140
Wax-work in the Cluny Museum, II., 79
Waxen images and the priests of the League, I., 16
Wechel, Christian, censured for selling the works of Erasmus, II., 179
Weights and measures, II., 236, 315
Well at Bicêtre, II., 213
Wellington, Duke of, and Marshal Ney, II., 106
White Cloaks, Convent of the, I., 306
Winchester, Bishop of, and Bicêtre Asylum, II., 211
Wimpffen, General de, II., 358, 360
Witchcraft, Burning for, I., 40;
popular belief in, 42
Women:
effect of the Revolution on them, 165, 166;
at theatres, I., 184, 186;
American, II., 15
Work-girls, Caps of, I., 10
Workmen, Costume of, I., 10;
quarters and dwellings of, 335;
clubs for, II., 71
Workshops, National, II., 130, 247
Writers, Public, II., 3-7

Yacht Club, I., 139
Young, 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, 283
Young Pretender, The, confined at Vincennes, I., 63