Introduction. |
Page |
I. Language. Money. Passports. Douane |
XI |
II. Post and Telegraph Offices |
XII |
III. Embassies |
XIII |
IV. Shops |
XIII |
V. History and Statistics |
XV |
VI. Distribution of Time |
XXI |
VII. Weights and Measures |
XXV |
VIII. General Remarks on N. France |
XVI |
Preliminary Information. |
1. Arrival in Paris |
1 |
2. Hotels and Maisons Meublée |
3 |
3. Restaurants |
8 |
4. Cafés |
14 |
5. Booksellers, Reading Rooms, Newspapers |
16 |
6. Shops, Bazaars, Markets |
17 |
7. Baths |
19 |
8. Voitures |
19 |
9. Omnibuses |
21 |
10. Railway-stations and Railway-omnibuses |
23 |
11. Steamboats |
25 |
12. Theatres |
25 |
13. Concerts and Balls |
30 |
14. Drive through Paris |
31 |
Right Bank of the Seine. |
Route |
|
1. *The Old Boulevards |
33 |
Place de la Bastille |
34 |
*Column of July |
35 |
Place Royale |
35 |
*Porte St. Martin and Porte St. Denis |
37 |
*Exchange |
38 |
*Vendôme Column |
40 |
Chapelle Expiatoire |
42 |
2. *The Boulevards de Strasbourg and de Sébastopol |
45 |
*Tour St. Jacques de la Boucherie |
46 |
Place du Châtelet |
46 |
Fontaine St. Michel |
46 |
3. *The Palais Royal |
47 |
Place des Victoires |
49 |
4. **The Louvre and its Collections |
50 |
*Assyrian Antiquities |
51 |
Collection of Casts |
51 |
Ancient Greek Reliefs and Sculptures |
52 |
*Egyptian Museum |
52 |
Algerian Museum |
52 |
Renaissance Sculptures |
53 |
Modern Sculptures |
54 |
*Ancient Sculptures |
54 |
*Collection of Engravings |
58 |
Antique Terracottas |
58 |
Modern French School of Painting |
58 |
Jewellery and Precious Relics |
59 |
Picture Gallery |
60 |
*Greek, Etruscan, Roman, Egyptian Antiquities |
68 |
Musée des Souverains |
69 |
Picture Gallery of the Musée Napoléon III. |
69 |
Mediæval and Renaissance Curiosities of the Musée Napoléon
III |
70 |
Drawings |
70 |
Hall of the Bronzes |
71 |
*Marine Museum |
71 |
Musée Ethnographique |
72 |
5. The Tuileries |
74 |
*Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel |
74 |
*Jardin des Tuileries |
77 |
6. **Place de la Concorde |
78 |
*Obelisk of Luxor |
80 |
7. *Champs Elysées |
82 |
Palais de l'Elysée |
83 |
Palais de l'Industrie |
83 |
Maison de François I |
84 |
Hôtel Pompéien |
84 |
Pont de l'Alma |
85 |
Pont d'Iéna |
85 |
8. *Arc de Triomphe de l'Etoile |
85 |
Russian Church |
86 |
*Chapelle St. Ferdinand |
87 |
9. *Parc de Monceaux |
88 |
10. *Bois de Boulogne |
89 |
Fortifications |
91 |
*Jardin d'Acclimatation |
91 |
11. *Hôtel de Ville |
92 |
Rue de Rivoli |
94 |
12. *Palais de Justice |
94 |
*Sainte Chapelle |
96 |
Conciergerie |
96 |
Préfecture de Police |
97 |
Place Dauphine |
97 |
*Pont Neuf |
98 |
Morgue |
99 |
13. *Bibliothèque Impériale |
99 |
Place Louvois |
99 |
Fontaine Molière |
101 |
14. Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers |
102 |
15. Churches on the right bank of the Seine |
103 |
*Notre Dame |
104 |
St Germain l'Auxerrois |
105 |
St. Merry |
107 |
*St. Eustache |
107 |
St. Roch |
108 |
*Madeleine |
109 |
*Notre Dame de Lorette |
110 |
*St. Vincent de Paul |
111 |
*St. Jean Baptiste |
112 |
St. Eugène |
112 |
Protestant Churches |
112 |
English Churches |
112 |
16. Père Lachaise |
113 |
Cimetière Picpus |
122 |
17. *Montmartre |
122 |
Cemetery of Montmartre |
123 |
18. *Vincennes and its Park |
124 |
Canal de St. Maur |
127 |
Charenton |
127 |
Left Bank of the Seine. |
19. **Palais du Luxembourg (modern pictures) |
128 |
Jardin du Luxembourg |
133 |
Statue of Ney |
134 |
Observatory |
134 |
20. *Musée des Thermes et de l'Hôtel de Cluny |
135 |
Sorbonne |
137 |
21. *Panthéon |
138 |
Bibliothèque Sainte Geneviève |
140 |
22. **Jardin des Plantes |
141 |
23. *Gobelins |
145 |
24. Hôtel des Monnaies |
148 |
25. Institut de France |
149 |
26. *Ecole des Beaux Arts |
150 |
27. Palais du Corps Législatif |
152 |
28. Musée d'Artillerie |
153 |
Eglise St. Thomas d'Aquin |
154 |
29. *Hôtel des Invalides |
155 |
*Napoleon's Tomb |
158 |
Ecole Militaire |
159 |
Champ de Mars |
159 |
Manufacture Impériale des Tabacs |
160 |
30. *Blind Institution |
160 |
Deaf and Dumb Institution |
161 |
31. Churches on the left bank of the Seine |
162 |
*St. Sulpice |
162 |
**St. Etienne du Mont |
163 |
St. Germain des Prés |
164 |
Sainte Clotilde |
165 |
32. Cemetery of Mont Parnasse |
166 |
33. The Catacombs |
167 |
Environs of Paris. |
34. **Versailles |
168 |
Les Trianons |
184 |
35. *St. Cloud |
185 |
Sèvres |
187 |
36. *St. Germain-en-Laye |
187 |
37. *St. Denis |
189 |
Enghien-les-Bains |
195 |
Montmorency |
195 |
38. *Fontaineblean |
196 |
Northern France. |
A. Routes from London to Paris. |
39. By Folkstone, Boulogne and Amiens |
202 |
40. By Dover, Calais and Amiens |
208 |
41. By Newhaven, Dieppe and Rouen |
210 |
42. By Southampton, Havre and Rouen |
220 |
B. North-western France. |
43. From Paris to Orléans and Tours |
223 |
44. From Paris to Nantes by Chartres, Le Mans and Angers |
228 |
45. From Nantes to Brest |
237 |
46. From Brest to Paris by Rennes and Le Mans |
239 |
47. From Paris to Caen and Cherbourg |
240 |
C. Routes from Paris to the Rhine and Switzerland. |
48. From Paris to Cologne |
245 |
a. Direct Route by Namur and Liége |
245 |
b. From Paris to Cologne by Brussels |
248 |
49. From Paris to Strasbourg by Châlons and Nancy |
253 |
50. Strasbourg |
260 |
51. From Paris to Mannheim or Coblenz (Bingen) |
264 |
a. From Paris to Metz |
264 |
b. Metz |
265 |
c. From Metz to Mannheim and Mayence |
267 |
d. From Metz to Coblenz by Neunkirchen and Bingen |
269 |
52. From Paris to Bâle by Troyes, Belfort and Mulhouse |
270 |
53. From Paris to Neuchâtel by Dijon |
273 |
54. From Paris to Geneva by Macon, Ambérieu and Culoz |
276 |
Index |
279 |
List of Names in the Plan |
285 |
M. = Engl. mile; hr. = hour; min. = minute; r. = right; l. = left;
N. = north, northwards, northern; S. = south etc.; E. = east etc.;
W. = west etc.; R. = room; B. = breakfast; D. = dinner; A. = attendance;
L. = light.