FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD TO THE PRESENT DAY VOLUME II   IL FLOTTE SANS ÊTRE SUBMERGÉ   image of a crown...

PHILADELPHIA GEORGE BARRIE & SON, PUBLISHERS COPYRIGHT, 1899, BY GEORGE BARRIE & SON VOLUME II CHAPTER IV THE ADMINISTRATION, NATIONAL AND MUNICIPAL...

NE of the grandest institutions of ancient France was the Parlement de Paris, and its history and that of the prévôts would constitute a history of the capital, while that of the fitful and accidental convocations of the États Généraux would in nowise illustrate that of the nation. Our facilities for acquiring a knowledge of the functions and methods of procedure of the Parlement have been greatly increased by the numerous critical historical works which have appeared within the last few years,

FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD TO THE PRESENT DAY VOLUME I THE SEINE AT BOUGIVAL THE SEINE AT BOUGIVAL PHOTOGRAVURE, AFTER THE PAINTING BY JULIUS L. STEWART   IL FLOTTE SANS ÊTRE SUBMERGÉ   image of a crown...

PHILADELPHIA GEORGE BARRIE & SON, PUBLISHERS COPYRIGHT, 1899, BY GEORGE BARRIE & SON VOLUME I INTRODUCTION CHAPTER I GALLO-ROMAN AND PRE-MEDIÆVAL PERIODS CHAPTER II THE COURT AND THE UPPER CLASSES CHAPTER III THE BOURGEOIS AND THE LOWER CLASSES...

I I I I F the capital of the French nation, situated on the river Seine, were simply the most beautiful, the wittiest, wickedest, and most artistic of towns, if—as has been so often asserted (and not exclusively by the citizens thereof)—the most commonplace and the most brilliant of human manifestations alike take on new qualities, texture, and interest the moment they become Parisien, then, indeed, would this city be entitled to be considered only with that mild offence which is the proper inte

LU DISTRIBUTING BREAD, TWELFTH CENTURY. Water-color by George Rochegrosse. COTOCIA , says that somewhat inexact geographer, Strabo, "is the city of the Parisii , who dwell along the river Seine, and inhabit an island formed by the river." Ptolemy, who has been thought to have been somewhat better informed concerning the Parisii than with regard to any of the other small tribes of Gaul, calls their capital Lucotecia ; but both they and their town appear for the first time in history fifty-three y

NY one traversing the handsome, formal garden which now occupies the site of the ancient palace of the Tuileries, official residence of the rulers of France after the red days of the Revolution, may perceive in the midmost of the central alley, directly in the axis of the long vista between Napoleon's two arches of triumph, that of the Carrousel and that of the Place de l'Étoile, an important marble group by the sculptor Mercié, set up on a high pedestal. This monument represents a vanquished an

FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE MIDDLE AGES TO THE PRESENT DAY THE BOURGEOIS AND THE LOWER CLASSES TWO SANS-CULOTTES. PERIOD, 1792. TWO SANS-CULOTTES. PERIOD, 1792. I F the history of a city were written with anything like a due exactness of proportion, much of it would be but a weary record of human misery, and through even the most decorous and conventional of chronicles there appear constantly unpleasant glimpses of the terrible under-strata that sometimes upheave and make ruin. So long as this app