The Story of Paris

Thomas Okey

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Title: The Story of Paris
Author: Thomas Okey
Illustrator: Katherine Kimball
Release Date: August 28, 2008 [EBook #26450]
Language: English
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THE STORY OF PARIS ***
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the
Online Distributed Proofreading Team atOnline Distributed Proofreading Team at
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Transcriber's note: Minor spelling inconsistencies,
mainly hyphenated words, have been harmonised.
Obvious printer errors have been repaired.
Accents:
In French sentences, most of them italicized, accents
have been added, when necessary, according to the
French spelling rules of the time.
In an English context, French words have no accents
if there are no accents in the original text. In case of
an inconsistent use of accents, the French spelling
has been favoured.
The Latin numbers (i and ii) in the text refers to
transcriber's notes at the end of this e-book.
The advertisement for other books in the series have
been removed from page 3 to the end of this e-book.
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The Story of ParisSamothrace.
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The Story of Paris
by Thomas Okey
With Illustrations by
Katherine Kimball
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London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd.
Aldine House, 10-13 Bedford Street
Covent Garden, W.C. * * *
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co.—1919
First Edition, 1906
Reprinted, 1911; July, 1919
"I will not forget this, that I can never mutinie so much
against France but I must needes looke on Paris with
a favourable eye: it hath my hart from my infancy;
whereof it hath befalne me, as of excellent things, the
more other faire and stately cities I have seene since,
the more hir beauty hath power and doth still
usurpingly gaine upon my affections. I love that citie
for hir own sake, and more in hir only subsisting andowne being, than when it is fall fraught and
embellished with forraine pompe and borrowed garish
ornaments. I love hir so tenderly that hir spottes, her
blemishes and hir warts are deare unto me. I am no
perfect French man but by this great citie, great in
people, great in regard of the felicitie of hir situation,
but above all great and incomparable in varietie and
diversitie of commodities; the glory of France and one
of the noblest and chiefe ornaments of the world. God
of his mercy free hir and chase away all our divisions
from hir. So long as she shall continue, so long shall I
never want a home or a retreat to retire and shrowd
myselfe at all times."
—Montaigne.
"Quand Dieu eslut nonante et dix royaumes
Tot le meillor torna en douce France."
Couronnement Loys.
PREFACE
In recasting Paris and its Story for issue in the
"Mediæval Towns Series," opportunity has been taken
of revising the whole and of adding a Second Part,
wherein we have essayed the office of cicerone.
Obviously in so vast a range of study as that afforded
by the city of Paris, compression and selection have
been imperative: we have therefore limited our
guidance to such routes and edifices as seemed to
offer the more important objects of historic and artistic
interest, excluding from our purview, with much regret,the works of contemporary artists. On the Louvre, as
the richest Thesaurus of beautiful things in Europe, we
have dwelt at some length and even so it has been
possible only to deal broadly with its contents. A book
has, however, this advantage over a corporeal guide;
it can be curtly dismissed without fear of offence,
when antipathy may impel the traveller to pass by, or
sympathy invite him to linger over, the various objects
indicated to his gaze. In a city where change is so
constant and the housebreaker's pick so active, any
work dealing with monuments of the past must needs
soon become imperfect. Since the publication of Paris
and its Story in the autumn of 1904, a picturesque
group of old houses in the Rue de l'Arbre Sec,
including the Hôtel des Mousquetaires, the traditional
lodging of Dumas' d'Artagnan, has been swept away
and a monstrous mass of engineering is now reared
on its site: even as we write other demolitions of
historic buildings are in progress. Care has, however,
been taken to bring this little work up to date and our
constant desire has been to render it useful to the
inexperienced visitor to Paris. Success in so
complicated and difficult a task can be but partial, and
in this as in so many of life's aims "our wills," as good
Sir Thomas Browne says, "must be our performances,
and our intents make out our actions; otherwise our
pious labours shall find anxiety in our graves and our
best endeavours not hope, but fear, a resurrection."
It now remains to acknowledge our indebtedness to
the following, among other authorities, which are here
set down to obviate the necessity for repeated
footnotes, and to indicate to readers who may desire
to pursue the study of the history and art of Paris inmore detail, some works among the enormous mass
of literature on the subject that will repay perusal.
For the general history of France, the monumental
Histoire de France now in course of publication, edited
by E. Lavisse; Michelet's Histoire de France, Recits de
l'Histoire de France, and Procès des Templiers; Victor
Duruy, Histoire de France; the cheap and admirable
selection of authorities in the seventeen volumes of
the Histoire de France racontée par les
Contemporains, edited by B. Zeller; Carl Faulmann,
Illustrirte Geschichte der Buchdruckerkunst; the
Chronicles of Gregory of Tours, Richer, Abbo,
Joinville, Villani, Froissart, De Comines; Géographie
Historique, by A. Guerard; Froude's essay on the
Templars; Jeanne d'Arc, Maid of Orleans, by T.
Douglas Murray; Paris sous Philip le Bel, edited by H.
Geraud.
For the later Monarchy, the Revolutionary and
Napoleonic periods, the Histories of Carlyle, Mignet,
Michelet and Louis Blanc; the Origines de la France
Contemporaine, by Taine; the Cambridge Modern
History, Vol. VIII.; the Memoirs of the Duc de St.
Simon, of Madame Campan, Madame Vigée-Lebrun,
Camille Desmoulins, Madame Roland and Paul Louis
Courier; the Journal de Perlet; Histoire de la Société
Française pendant la Révolution, by J. de Goncourt;
Goethe's Die Campagne in Frankreich, 1792;
Légendes et Archives de la Bastille, by F. Funck
Brentano; Life of Napoleon I., by J. Holland Rose;
L'Europe et la Révolution Française, by Albert Sorel;
the periodical, La Révolution Française; Contemporary
American Opinion of the French Revolution, by C.D.Hazen.
For the particular history of Paris, the exhaustive and
comprehensive Histoire de la Ville de Paris, by Michel
Félibien and Guy Alexis Lobineau; the so-called
Journal d'un Bourgeois de Paris, edited by L. Lalanne;
Paris Pendant la Domination Anglaise, by A. Longnon;
the more modern Paris à Travers les Ages, by M.F.
Hoffbauer, E. Fournier and others; the Topographie
Historique du Vieux Paris, by A. Berty and H. Legrand,
and other works now issued or in course of publication
by the Ville de Paris. Howell's Familiar Letters,
Coryat's Crudities, Evelyn's Diary, and Sir Samuel
Romilly's Letters, contain useful matter. For the
chapters on Historical Paris, E. Fournier's Promenade
Historique dans Paris, Chronique des Rues de Paris,
Énigmes des Rues de Paris; the Marquis de
Rochegude's Guide Pratique à Travers le Vieux Paris;
the Dictionnaire Historique de Paris, by G. Pessard,
and the excellent Nouvel Itinéraire Guide Artistique et
Archéologique de Paris, by C. Normand, published by
the Société des Amis des Monuments Parisiens.
For French art, Félibien's Entretiens; the writings of
Lady Dilke; French Painting in the Sixteenth Century,
by L. Dimier; Histoire de l'Art, Peinture, École
Française, by Cazes d'Aix and J. Bérard; the
compendious History of Modern Painting, by R.
Muther; The Great French Painters, by C. Mauclair;
La Sculpture Française, by L. Gonse; Mediæval Art,
by W.R. Lethaby; the Catalogue of the Exposition des
Primitifs Français (1904); Le Peinture en Europe, Le
Louvre, by Lafenestre and Richtenberger, and the
official catalogues of the Louvre collections. All thesehave been largely drawn upon and supplemented by
affectionate memories of an acquaintance with Paris
and many of its citizens dating back for more than
thirty years.
May we add a last word of practical counsel.
Distances in Paris are great, and the traveller who
would economise time and reduce fatigue will do well
to bargain with his host to be free to take the mid-day
meal wherever his journeyings may lead him.
April, 1906.
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION