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Contents.

VIII

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

List of Maps and Plans.

1. General Map of N. France before the title-pape.
2. Map of the Environs of Paris before the title-pape.
3. Plan of Paris in three Sections, after the Index.
4. Key-Plan of Paris.
5. Bois de Boulogne p. 88; 6. Père Lachaise p. 114; 7. Jardin des Plantes
p. 142; 8. Versailles p. 170; 9. St. Germain-en-Laye p. 188; 10. Fontainebleau
p. 198; 11. Boulogne p. 202; 12. Dieppe p. 210; 13. Rouen
p. 212; 14. Le Havre p. 220; 15. Orleans p. 224; 16. Nantes p. 234;
17. Brest p. 238; 18. Caen p. 240; 19. Cherbourg p. 242; 20. Liége
p. 246; 21. Brussels p. 250; 22. Rheims p. 254; 23. Strasbourg p. 260;
24. Metz p. 264.

Abbreviations.

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.