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Title: Twenty centuries of Paris
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Smith, Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke), 1864-1942 Kleist, Herbert, 1902-1986, former owner. MB (BRL) Armstrong, Margaret, 1867-1944, cover designer Kleist Collection (Boston Public Library)
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Publisher: New York : Thomas Y. Crowell Co.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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BIGHT, 1913, By THOMAS Y. CROWELL COMPANY. SECOND PRINTING TO M. P. G. Un rayon de soleil a ses entrees partout. Sardou Digitized by the Internet Archivein 2013 archive.org/details/twentycenturiesoOOsmi CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. Earliest Paris 1 II. Merovingian Paris 16 III. Carlovingian Paris 32 IV. Paris of the Early Capetians . . 44 V. Paris of Phieip Augustus 69 VI. Paris of Saint Louis 90 VII. Paris of Phieip the Fair 105 VIII. Paris of the Earey Valois .... 129 IX. Paris of Charles V 153 X. Paris of the Hundred Years War . . 165XI. Paris of the Later Fifteenth Cen-tury 189 XII. Paris of the Renaissance 199 XIII. Paris of the Reformation . . . . 214 XIV. Paris of Henry IV . . 230 XV. Paris of Richelieu 248 XVI. Paris of the Grand Monarque . . 260 XVII. Paris of Louis the Well-Beloved 274 XVIII. Paris of the Revolution 287 XIX. Paris of Napoleon 310 XX. Paris of the Lesser Revolutions . . 338 XXI. Paris of Louis Napoleon 355 XXII. Paris of To-day 369 Appendix 385 Index 395 v
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THE SUCCESSIVE WALLS OF PARIS. Twenty Centuries ofParis CHAPTER I EARLIEST PAEIS FRANCE has been inhabited since the dayswhen prehistoric man unconsciously toldthe story of his life through the mediumof the household utensils and the implements ofwar which he left behind him in the caves in whichhe dwelt, or which his considerate relatives buriedwith him to make his soj ourn easy in the land be-yond the grave. From bits of bone, of flint, andof polished stone archaeologists have recon-structed the man himself and his activitiesthrough the early ages. Of contemporary in-formation, however, there is none until the ad-venturous peoples of the Mediterranean pushedtheir way as traders and explorers into the heartof Gaul, and then wrote about their discoveries.The Gauls, they said, were largely Celtic inorigin and had displaced an earlier race, the Ibe-rians, whom they had crowded to the southwest.They were brave, loyal, superstitious, and sub-ject to their priests, the Druids. Their dress

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