No. 71, with a monumental gateway, richly carved, giving entrance to
an ample court. The stately walls surrounding this court have suffered
much from time, and more from man. The old façade of this wing on our
left is hidden behind a paltry new frontage for shops, and on the roof
of the central body before us a contemptible top story has been put.
The face of the original lofty attic, above the cornice, carried
pilasters in continuation of those below, and these have been brutally
mutilated by a line of low windows just over the cornice. For all
that, there is a majesty in the stately arcades of these lower
stories, and in the unspoiled lower walls, up which climb graceful
Corinthian pilasters from ground to cornice. They are similar to those
of the Hôtel Lamoignon, built before this Hôtel de Saint-Aignan was
transformed from a former structure by de Muet, who doubtless admired,
perhaps unconsciously imitated, the best features of the earlier
architecture. He has put, in this almost intact right wing, just such
a stone staircase, of easy grade and no hand-rail, as that we have
seen in the residence built for Diane de France.
There is hardly any history to detain us here, and the great names
that once resounded in this court make only far-away echoes now.
Claude de Mesme, Comte d'Avaux, a diplomat of the seventeenth century,
built this _hôtel_. At his death, it came to the Duc de Saint-Aignan,
a royal Purveyor at the head of Louis XIV.'s Council of Finance. He
was a relative of Madame de Scudéry, wife of the Georges whom we have
met in his sister's _salon_. Through his wife's influence with
Saint-Aignan, Georges was presented to the King, and succeeded in
obtaining a pension--useful to supplement such of his sister's
earnings as came in his way. His merits, for which the royal bounty
was granted, seem to have been of so momentous a literary character as
to be pronounced equal to those of Corneille!
When Olivier de Clisson--Constable of France after the death of his
comrade-in-arms, the mighty Duguesclin--brought back Charles VI.
victorious to Paris, after crushing the revolt in Ghent under Philip
van Artavelde, he found the Marais du Temple fast being reclaimed and
built upon. At one corner of the Templars' former wood-yard, on a
street to be named du Chaume, now merged in the southern end of Rue
des Archives, opposite the end of Rue de Braque, was the fortress-home
of his wife, Marguerite de Rohan, within the family enclosure. Here de
Clisson made his head-quarters, giving his name to the _hôtel_. Its
entrance, an ogival portal sunk beneath two impressive round turrets,
built of different sizes through some vagary, still remains; a most
impressive relic, imbedded in more recent walls.
[Illustration: The Gateway of the Hôtel de Clisson.]
It was de Clisson, who, quite without his consent, gave the King one
of the several shocks which culminated in his madness. King and
Constable had supped together in the royal apartment of the Hôtel
Saint-Paul, and the Constable went on his way home. Lighted by the
main facts of the affair, we may easily track him. After crossing Rue
Saint-Antoine and passing through one of the narrow lanes to Rue
Neuve-Sainte-Catherine--now the eastern end of Rue des Francs-Bourgeois
--he should have kept along this street to this new home of his. Perhaps
the old soldier was not quite sure of his way, so soon after supper
and the plentiful _petit vin de l'hôtel Saint-Paul_, for he found
himself beyond his corner, up in Rue Sainte-Catherine, now Rue
Sévigné; and there, in front of a baker's shop opposite the spot where
now is the Carnavalet, he was set upon by a band of men led by Pierre
de Craon, a crony of Louis d'Orléans. They left the tough old warrior
in the baker's doorway, bleeding from many wounds, but not quite
killed. The King was summoned, came hastily in scanty clothing, and it
was long before he recovered from his affright. When he had rallied,
he started out to punish the assailant of his favorite captain, and it
was on his way to Brittany, with whose duke de Craon had taken refuge,
that the King received the final blow to his reason.
The history of the Hôtel de Clisson would weary us, were it told in
detail. We may jump to the year 1553, when it came to Anne d'Est, wife
of François de Lorraine, Duc de Guise. He and his family were
beginning to feel and to show their growing power, and he found these
walls not wide enough for his swelling consequence. He bought the
Hôtels de Laval and de la Roche-Guyon, whose grounds adjoined his own;
so adding to his estate, while others, following the example of
François I., were cutting up and selling their Paris lands. Soon the
Hôtel de Guise was made up of several mansions, rebuilt and run
together, within one enclosure, bounded by Rues de Paradis (now the
western end of Rue des Francs-Bourgeois), du Chaume (now des
Archives), des Quatre-Fils, and Vieille-du-Temple. The heirs of the
last Guise, who died in 1671, sold this property at the end of the
seventeenth century, and it came into the grasping hands of Madame de
Soubise; bought with the savings of the French peasants, squeezed from
them by Louis XIV.'s farmers of taxes, and by him poured into the lap
of this lady, one of the many ladies so turning an honest penny. Her
complaisant husband, François de Rohan, Prince de Soubise, began to
tear down much of the old work, and to replace it by new work, in
1706. For thirty years he kept the most skilful artists and artisans
of that day employed on the place within and without; and he left the
Hotel de Soubise much as we find it now. To him we owe this striking
_cour d'honneur_, square with curved ends, and framed in a colonnade
of coupled columns, that leads a covered gallery from the grand
entrance around to the portal of the main building. This is his façade
of three stories, with pediment, its columns both composite and
Corinthian. For general effect this court has no parallel in Paris.
A light elegant staircase, its ceiling delicately painted, leads to
the first floor, whose rooms retain some of their mouldings, their
wood-carvings, their decorated doorways and ceilings. Gone, however,
are the tapestries, "the most beautiful in the world and most esteemed
in Christendom, after those of the Vatican," Sauval assures us.
Vast and magnificent as was this palace, it did not suffice for the
son of this prince, the Cardinal Armand Gaston de Rohan, Bishop of
Strasburg, who, says Sauval, "was, in his prosperity, very insolent
and blinded." On the site of the demolished Hôtel de la Roche-Guyon he
built for himself the Palais Cardinal, now commonly known as the Hôtel
de Strasbourg. The library, great and precious, which he there
collected, together with his _hôtel_ and his blind insolence, came to
his grand-nephew, the Cardinal de Rohan of the Diamond Necklace, the
last cardinal of a family of cardinals.
At his death, in 1803, desertion and emptiness came to the Hôtel de
Strasbourg, as they had already come to the Hôtel de Soubise. The huge
size of the buildings rendered them unfit for private residences. At
length they were taken for the State by the Emperor, at the urging of
Daunou, Director of the Archives of France. By the decree of March 6,
1808, those archives took for their own the Hôtel de Soubise, and the
Hôtel de Strasbourg was given to the Imprimerie Impériale. No
after-revolution nor any change of rulers has troubled them. As their
contents grew, new structures have been added, over the gardens and on
the street behind, all done in good taste, all suggesting the uses for
which they are meant. The Imprimerie, entered from Rue Vieille-du-Temple,
through a court containing a statue of Gutenberg, does the work for
the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies, for the Ministers and for the
Institute. Its _Bulletin des Lois_, issued to all the Communes of
France, carries to completion the mission meant for it when it was
begun by Louis XIII., Hugo asserts.
The archives of France must be studied and may not be described. This
amazing collection of manuscripts, charters, diplomas, letters, and
autographs begins with the earliest day of writing and of records in
France, and comes down through all the centuries. It is a spot for
unhurried and unhindered browsing during long summer days.
Just in this region is to be seen, better than anywhere, an aspect of
the Marais not yet seen in our historic strolling. It is the Marais of
to-day and of every day, the work-a-day Marais, whose heart is here in
this street of the Temple and the old street of the Temple. In them,
and in the streets that cross them, are numerous mansions of a bygone
time, with little to say to us in architecture, nothing at all to say
to us in history or letters. Side by side with them are tall buildings
and huge blocks of modern construction; new and old held and possessed
by factories, warehouses, show-rooms; their upper portions given over
to strange handicrafts, strangely met together. The making of
syphon-tops is next door on the same floor to the wiring of feathers,
as Daudet discovered. These narrow streets between the buildings, and
these walled-in courts within them, are hushed all through the
working-hours, save for the ceaseless muffled rumble of the machinery,
and the unbroken low murmur of the human toilers, both intent on their
tasks.
Suddenly at noon, these streets are all astir with an industrial,
unarmed mob, and the whole quarter is given over to an insurrection,
peaceful and unoffending. These workers are making their way to
restaurant or _rôtisserie_ or _cabaret_; some of them saunter along,
taking their breakfast "_sur le pouce_." The men, in stained blouses,
are alert, earnest, and self-respecting; the girls, direct of gaze,
frank of manner, shrill of voice, wear enwrapping aprons, that fall
from neck to ankle, and their hair, the glory of the French
working-woman who goes hatless, is dressed with an artless art that
would not dishonor a drawing-room. We can carry away with us, from
these last scenes, no more captivating memory than this of the most
modern woman of our Marais.
INDEX
Abelard, Pierre, I., 75 _et seq._
Amboise, Bussy d', II., site of his murder, 107
Anne of Brittany, I., 36;
built the still existing refectory of the Cordelier Convent, 230;
II., wife and widow of Charles VIII., 186;
marries Louis XII., 187
Arsenal, the library of the, II., 250 _et seq._
Artois, Robert, Comte d', I., 51, 55
Aubriot, Hugues, Provost of Paris, builder of the Bastille, II., 174;
tower and staircase of, 174 _et seq._
Balzac, Honoré de, II., birthplace, 53;
homes in Paris, 54, 60, 61, 62;
site of type foundry, 58;
mode of writing, 64-66;
scenes and characters of, 76-80;
marriage and death, 81 _et seq._
Barras, Paul-François-Jean-Nicolas, Comte de, I., 256
Barye, Antoine-Louis, II., home and studio of, 253
Beaumarchais, de Pierre-Augustin Caron, I., birthplace and homes
of, 217-218
Béjart, Armande, I., wife and widow of Molière, 119;
sketched, 122 _et seq._
---- Madeleine, sister or mother of Armande, friend of Molière,
I., 117;
opposes his marriage, 122
Béranger, Pierre-Jean de, II., house at Passy, 71;
in prison, 137
Bernardins, monastery of the, I., modern use of its refectory, 45
Béthune, Maximilien de (See Sully)
Bièvre, the river, I., 21, 27, 43;
II. 155-156
Birch, George H., I., 9
Blanche of Castile, I., house and stairway of, 27 _et seq._;
widow of Louis VIII., 36
Boccaccio, I., records Dante's visit to Paris, 83
Boffrand, Germain, I, architect of Charles Lebrun's _hôtel_, 43
Boileau-Despréaux, Nicolas, I., in the cloisters of Notre-Dame,
75-76;
offers to surrender his pension to Corneille, 142;
sketch of, 178 _et seq._;
studied in the Sorbonne, 183;
site of his house at Auteuil, 186;
lodgings in Paris, 188;
final resting-place, 199
Bonaparte, Napoleon, I., house visited by, when a lad, 258;
early homes in Paris, 260-262
Bossuet, Bishop of Meaux, I., 14;
"the strong and splendid," 143-144
_Boulangerie générale des Hôpitaux et Hospices, la_, I., in its
courtyard a wing of Sardini's villa, 41
Boulevard Saint-Germain, I., 33, 46
Boulevard Saint-Michel, I., 33
Bourgogne, Charles "le Téméraire," Duc de, I., 62
---- Jean "sans-Peur," Duc de, I., 56 _et seq._
---- Marguerite, Duchesse de, I., 56 _et seq._
---- Philippe "le Bon," Duc de, I., 60 _et seq._
---- Philippe, "le Hardi," Duc de, I., 55 _et seq._
Brinvilliers, Marie-Madeleine Dreux d'Aubray, Duchesse de, II.,
residence of, in the Marais, 243;
sketch of, 244 _et seq._;
Lebrun's portrait of, in the Louvre, 247
Calvin, John, I., studied in seminary of
Saint-Nicolas-du-Chardonnet, 44;
his only residence in Paris, 93
_Candide_, I., referred to, 41
Carlyle, Thomas, I., quoted, 59;
on Diderot, 207;
sees Talma in the Théâtre Français, 269
Catherine de' Medici, I., referred to, 33, 42;
II., 106
Cerceau, Androuët du, II., Huguenot architect, existing specimens
of his work, 198-199
---- Baptiste, du, I., house of, in the Huguenot quarter, 91
---- Jean du, II., architect of Sully's _hôtel_, 195
Champeaux, Guillaume de, I., Master of Abelard, 77
Chapelle, Saint-Benoît-le-Bétourné, I., site of, 86
---- Sainte, la, I., referred to, 23
Charles of Orleans, I., 60
---- II. (of France), I., wooden tower of, 31
Charles V., "the Wise," I., 4, 51;
II., in the Marais, 169;
wall of, 171-178;
his Hôtel Saint-Paul, 180-181
---- VI., I., drives the first pile of Pont Notre-Dame, 25;
II., 181 _et seq._
---- VII., II., presents the Island Palace, _Palais de Justice_,
to Parliament, 170;
residence in the Tournelles, 184
---- VIII., II., enters Paris with Anne of Brittany, 186
Charlot, Claude, II., opens streets through the Marais, 209-210
Châteaubriand, François-Auguste, Vicomte de, I., describes Talma,
268;
II., homes in Paris, 30-37, 45
Châtelet, le Grand, I., its site, 31;
Molière imprisoned in, for debt, 116
---- le Petit, I., 31
---- Place du, I., 31
Chaucer, Geoffrey, I., translated part of _Le Roman de la Rose_,
85
Chénier, André-Marie de, I., house in Paris, 240;
II., memorial tablet and grave, 154
---- Joseph-Marie de, I., 242-243
Chevreuse, Marie de Rohan, Duchesse de, I., her Hôtel de Luynes
constructed under Racine's supervision, 151;
II., her rôle in history and in Dumas, 115-116
Chimæra, I., statue of the, in Cluny Museum, 97
Church, Saint-Eustache, I., Lebrun's tomb of Colbert in, 44;
Molière's second son baptized in, 106, 115
---- Sainte-Geneviève, I., one of the resting-places of the body
of René Descartes, 100
---- Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois, I., scene of Molière's marriage,
115
---- Saint-Gervais, I., window of Jean Cousin, 48
---- Saint-Julien-le-Pauvre, still unchanged, 82-83
---- Saint-Roch, I., Molière stands sponsor for a child in, 115;
Corneille buried in, 143;
bust of Charles Michel, Abbé de l'Épée, 210
---- Saint-Philippe-du-Roule, II., Scene of Adèle Hugo's baptism
and of Balzac's funeral service, 139
---- Saint-Séverin, I., destroyed in 866, rebuilt in the 13th
century, 82-83.
_Cité, la_, I., 20, 36
---- _Île de la_, I., 15, 32, 75
City, the (See _La Cité_)
City, Island of the (See _Île de la_)
Clagny, Abbé de, I., designer of the fountain of the Innocents, 50
Clairon, Hippolyte, I., dwellings of, 161, 164
"Clopinel," I., nickname of Jean de Meung, completer of _Le Roman
de la Rose_, 85
Cluny Museum, I., 21, 35
Coictier, Dr., I., physician of Louis XI., well of, 35;
II., astrological tower of, 187
College of the Four Nations, I., founded by Cardinal Mazarin, 78,
170
_Confrérie de la Passion_, I., 64 _et seq._
Conti, Prince de, I., friend and protector of Molière, Racine,
Boileau, 108
Cook, Theodore Andrea, quoted, I., 3
Coppée, François, I., quoted, 14;
remembers the Halles as they were in Molière's time, 107
Corneille, Pierre, I., quoted, 47;
statue of, at Rouen, and sketch of life, 138 _et seq._;
apartment in Rue de Cléry, 139;
personality, 147;
Guizot's estimate of, 148
---- Thomas, I., 139, 142, 144, 149
Cour du Commerce, I., 34;
Sainte-Beuve's apartment in, 228;
trial of the first guillotine, 231
---- de Rohan, I., stairway and ancient well, 34
Cousin, Jean, I., worker in stained glass, his window in
Saint-Gervais, 91
Crusade, the Sixth, I., 51
Crusaders, the, I., 78
Cuvier, Georges, I., homes of, 255
Dablin, II., friend of Balzac, 86
Dagobert, I., stairway and tower of, 16 _et seq._
Dante, I., 82 _et seq._
Danton, Georges-Jacques, I., statue and site of house, 224
Daudet, Alphonse, II., homes in the Marais, 263 _et seq._
Delorme, Philibert, I., dies in the cloister of Notre-Dame, 76
---- Marion, II., house in the Marais, 140 _et seq._
Descartes, René, I., site of his house, 100;
portrait by Franz Hals, 100;
body rests in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, 101
Deschamps, Eustace, I., ballad to Chaucer, 85
Desmoulins, Lucie-Simplice-Camille-Benoist, I., homes in Paris,
225-227
Dickens, Charles, II., description of George Sand, 26;
description of Hugo and of his home, 147
Diderot, Denis, I., in the Café Procope, 201 _et seq._;
sketch of, 204 _et seq._;
where he died, 209
Dolet, Étienne, I., statue of, in Place Maubert, 94
Dudevant, Mme. (See George Sand)
Dumas, Alexandre, II., arrival in Paris, 91;
contemporaries of, 93 _et seq._;
homes in Paris, 97-98, 101-103;
birth of Dumas _fils_, 98;
statue and description of, 104;
scenes and characters of his novels, 105 _et seq._
Dunois, bastard of Louis d'Orléans, I., 35, 59
Dupanloup, Bishop, I., Renan's master in the Seminary of St.
Nicolas-du-Chardonnet, 44
École des Beaux-Arts, II., 29
"Encore un Tableau de Paris," Henrion's, I., 6
Erasmus, I., residence of, in the Collège Montaigu, 95
Estrées, Gabrielle d', II., scene of her sudden death, 249
Fontenelle, I., describes Corneille, 147
Force, La, I., prison of, 31, II., 138
Fouquet, I., protector of Lebrun, 43
François I., I., 1, 62, 65, II., _Maison de_, 159;
II., 189
Franklin, Benjamin, I., residences in Paris and Passy, 214-215
Frémiet, I., bronze statue of Louis d'Orléans, 57
Fulbert, Canon, I., uncle of Héloise, 75, 77
Gambetta, Léon, I., at the Café Procope, 202
Gautier, Théophile, I., verses for Corneille's birthday fête, 141
Gobelins, I., factory of the, founded by a dyer named Gobelin,
41-44
Goujon, Jean, I., decorator of ancient fountain, 50;
II., bust of, and specimens of his carving, 216-217
Gringoire, I., alluded to, 87
"Guillotine, la," I., its inventor, 231;
sites of, 231, 233
Guizot, François-Pierre-Guillaume, II., residence in the Scholars'
Quarter, 5, 6
Halles, les, I., 48
Heine, Heinrich, II., his estimate of Hugo, 146
Héloise, I., 75, 77
Henley, W. E., I., quoted, 87
Henri II., I., 4; II., fatally wounded in the lists of the
Tournelles, 193
Henri IV., I., 4. 24, 34, 68;
II., statue of, 193;
introduced mulberries and silkworms into France, 197;
built up eastern side of the Place Royale at the crown's
expense, 199
Hôtel de Ville, I., the new, 48;
II., first public library of, 262
Hôtel-Dieu, I., 26
Hôtel, d'Artois (see Hôtel de Bourgogne)
---- Barbette, I., 57;
II. 267 _et seq._
---- de Beauvais, I., 9;
II., impressive specimen of seventeenth century architecture,
238 _et seq._
---- de Bourgogne, I., last remaining fragment, 51;
in the reign of Louis XI., 61;
use made of its donjon by Saint Vincent de Paul, 63;
part of it used as a theatre by the Confraternity of the
Passion, 65
---- de Bretagne, I., memories of, 232
---- de Choiseul-Praslin, I., now a Dominican school for girls,
130
---- de Clermont-Tonnerre, I., 32
---- de Clisson, II., history of, 275 _et seq._
---- de Flandres, I., now the site of the General Post Office in
Rue Jean-Jacques-Rousseau, 56
---- de Hollande, II., 272
---- de Lauzun-Pimodan, II., 74-76
---- de Luynes, I., constructed under Racine's supervision, 151
---- de Navarre, I., existing remains of, 34-35
---- de la Reine Blanche, I., 27 _et seq._
---- Saint-Paul, I., 57;
II., 180 _et seq._
---- de Strasbourg (_Palais Cardinal_), II., now the Imprimerie,
279
---- des Tournelles, I., occupied by Louis XI., 61;
II., by the Duke of Bedford during the English occupation of
Paris, 183;
by Charles VII. after the burning of Joan the Maid, 184;
afterward the abode of royalty for more than a century, 185;
François I. in the, 188-191
Hôtel des Tournelles, lists of, II., Henri II. fatally wounded
in, 193
---- des Ursins, I., 20
_Hôtels-garnis_, I., do not antedate the Revolution, 9
Huguenots, the, I., befriended by Marguerite of Navarre, 90-94;
in the Scholars' Quarter, 90, 91
Hugo, General, II., father of Victor, 126, 128, 157
---- Victor, I., "painful detail and inaccurate erudition" in his
portraiture of mediæval Paris, 41;
sarcasm on Cuvier, 255;
II., describes Balzac's death and burial, 84-87;
first Paris lodging, 125;
later homes and schools, 127 _et seq._;
visits Châteaubriand, 132;
death of his mother, 133;
marriage, 134;
homes of married life, 135 _et seq._;
friends, 136 _et seq._;
visits Béranger in prison, 137;
scenes and characters of, 150 _et seq._;
final home, 160
Île de la Cité, I., 15, 32, 75, 78;
II., 165
---- des Javiaux, later Île Louvier, I., 21
---- Notre-Dame, I., 54
---- Saint-Louis, I., formed by the junction of Île Notre-Dame and
Île aux Vaches, 21, 45 _et seq._
Innocents, Cemetery of the, I., some of its vaults in perfect
preservation, their present use, 49
---- Church of, I., built by Louis "le Gros," 50
---- fountain and square of the, 50
Institute, the, I., site of the Tour de Nesle shown by a tablet
on its eastern wall, 32
Isabelle of Bavaria, I., wife of Charles VI., held her "unclean
court" in Hôtel Barbette, 57;
II., her abode in the Marais, 269
James, Henry, I., quoted, 19, 26;
II., 78
Jean "le Bon," I., 55
---- "sans-Peur," I., procures the assassination of Louis
d'Orléans, 58;
himself assassinated, 59
Joan the Maid, II., 177, 269
La Fontaine, Jean de, I., friendship with Mme. de la Sablière,
171-172;
death and burial, 173;
friends of, 174 _et seq._
Lamartine, Alphonse de, II., residence of, in the Scholars'
Quarter, 9;
statue of, 10;
his first visit to Hugo, 132-133
Lang, Andrew, I., quoted, 89
Laplace, Pierre-Simon, I., residences of, 253-254
Latin Quarter (See Scholars' Quarter)
Lavoisier, Antoine-Laurent, I., 253
Lebrun, Charles, I., court painter and decorator, 43-45
Lecouvreur, Adrienne, I., residence of, 162;
where buried, 163
Lemoine, Cardinal, I., College of, 93
Lenclos, Ninon de, II., house of, in the Marais, 224 _et seq._
Lenôtre, M. G., I., 10;
his "Paris Révolutionnaire," 223
Lescot, Pierre, I., the fountain _des Innocents_ wrongly
ascribed to, 50;
dies in the cloisters of Notre-Dame, 76
"_Librairie de Monsieur_" (See Library of the Arsenal)
Library of the Arsenal, the, II., 56, 250 _et seq._
Littré, Maximilien-Paul-Émile, II., homes of, 18
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, I., quoted, 83
Lorris, Guillaume de, I., began the Roman of the Rose, 85
Louis VI., I., wall and towers of, 30-31
Louis VII., II., gives site in the Marais to the Templars,
179
Louis IX. (Saint-Louis), I., 36
Louis XI., I., entry into Paris on accession, 61;
II., residence in the Tournelles, 185 _et seq._
Louis XII., I., ancient well once his property, 34;
patron of Pierre Gringoire, 67;
II., in the Marais, 170;
marries Anne of Brittany, 187;
marries Mary, sister of Henry VIII. of England, 188
Louis XIII., "the Just," I., opens building sites on Île
Saint-Louis, 47;
Vincent de Paul his confessor, 63;
permits "Les Comédiens du Marais" to style themselves "La Troupe
Royale," 68-69;
II., marries Anne of Austria, 201;
statue of, 202
Louis XIV., II., enters Paris with his bride, 236-237;
witness of his marriage procession, 237
Louis XVI., I., institutes the "model prison" of La Force, 31
Louis XVIII., II., why he pensioned Victor Hugo, 134-135
Louis of Orleans, I., statue of, 57;
assassinated, 58;
his widow, 59;
II., at the Hôtel Barbette with Isabelle of Bavaria, 269
Lulli, musician, I., house of, still in perfect condition, 140
Lutetia, I., Gallic and Roman, 20;
Gallo-Roman wall of, 30;
wall built by Louis VI., 31;
II., 165-166
Macaulay, Thomas Babington, I., "criticises" French names, 8
Maison de la Reine Blanche, I., 27 _et seq._
Maistre, Joseph de, II., quoted on the massacre of
Saint-Bartholomew's Night, 183
Mancini, Anne, Duchesse de Bouillon, niece of Mazarin, I., 167-168
Mansart, François, II., house in the Marais, 225