Paris past and present (1902) (14590962968)

Identifier: parispastpresent01hayn (find matches)
Title: Paris past & present
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Haynie, Henry
Subjects: Paris (France) -- Description and travel Paris (France) -- History
Publisher: New York : F. A. Stokes company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



Text Appearing Before Image:
thereligious ceremony was celebrated the next day 146 PARIS. at Notre Dame. It was in the Tuilerles thatnearly all the State ceremonies of the SecondEmj)ire took place, and among the guests of that2)alace may be mentioned Queen Victoria andher husband, Prince Albert. It was there thatan heir to the Imperial throne was born ; andit was from thence that the Empress Eugenieescaped in a public hack and rode to the privateresidence of an American dentist who afterwardsaw her safely out of France and into England.During the siege of Paris by the Germansthe Tuileries palace was a hospital, and thenone day, when the troops of Versailles penetratedinto the capital, the Communists burned itdown, nothing being left of the structure but aheap of smoking and unsightly ruins. In July,1882, the Fiench Parliament appropriated tenthousand dollars to be expended in removingthese ruins, and so well was this work donethat to-day not one stone or brick is left stand-ing upon another of the famous palace.
Text Appearing After Image:
CHAPTER IX. The H6tel des Tournelles—Mansion wherein Louis XIIdied—Once it was both citadel and royal residence—A fatal tilting tournament—The chateau pulleddown by a queens command—Origin of the PluceRoyale—Duelling during the time of CardinalRichelieu—A famous neighbourhood—An expen-sive beauty and a poor poets wife—The rendez-vous of gaiety and diplomacy — Anecdote of alove letter—The best French ever spoken—An ex-quisite Marchioness—The old mansion of de La-moignon. The fourteentli century was distingiiislied inParis by the imposing order of its military con-structions; the fifteenth and sixteenth, by theboldness and elegance of their religious andcivil edifices. It was during this latter peiiodthat Gothic architecture, so ingenious in its con-ceptions, so minutely exquisite in its details,made its brilliant effects the best known. Sucha structure was the Hotel des Tournelles, situ-ate vis-a-vis to the Palais St. Paul, and innu-merable were the scandalous