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Allen Grant. Paris
Paris
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
HOW TO USE THESE GUIDE-BOOKS
ORIGINS OF PARIS
I. THE ÎLE DE LA CITÉ
A. THE PALAIS DE JUSTICE AND THE. SAINTE CHAPELLE
B. NOTRE-DAME
MAP OF HISTORIC PARIS
II. THE LEFT OR SOUTH BANK
A. THE ROMAN PALACE AND THE. MUSÉE DE CLUNY
B. THE HILL OF STE. GENEVIÈVE (Panthéon, St. Étienne-du-Mont.)
III. RENAISSANCE PARIS (THE LOUVRE)
A. THE FABRIC
B. THE COLLECTIONS
I. PAINTINGS
II. SCULPTURE
I. ANTIQUE SCULPTURE
2. RENAISSANCE SCULPTURE
3. MODERN SCULPTURE
III. THE SMALLER COLLECTIONS
IV. THE NORTH BANK (RIVE DROITE)
A. THE CORE OF THE RIGHT BANK
B. THE OUTER RING OF LOUIS XIV
V. THE FAUBOURG ST. GERMAIN (Luxembourg, etc.)
VI. ST. DENIS
VII. THE OUTER RING, ETC
INDEX
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The second patron saint of the city—the saint of the Frankish conquest—is locally and artistically even more important. Like Jeanne d’Arc, she touches the strong French sentiment of patriotism. Ste. Geneviève, a peasant girl of Nanterre (on the outskirts of Paris), was born in 421, during the stormy times of the barbarian irruptions. When she was seven years old, St. Germain, of Auxerre (of whom more will be said under the church of St. Germain l’Auxerrois), on his way to Britain, saw la pucellette Geneviève, and became aware, by divine premonition, of her predestined glory. When she had grown to woman’s estate, and was a shepherdess at Nanterre, a barbarian leader (identified in the legend with Attila, King of the Huns) threatened to lay siege to the little city. But Geneviève, warned of God, addressed the people, begging them not to leave their homes, and assuring them of the miraculous protection of heaven. And indeed, as it turned out, the barbarians, without any obvious reason, changed their line of march, and avoided Paris. Again, when Childeric, the father of Clovis, invested the city, the people suffered greatly from sickness and famine. Then Geneviève took command of the boats which were sent up stream to Troyes for succour, stilled by her prayers the frequent tempests, and brought the ships back laden with provisions. After the Franks had captured Paris, Ste. Geneviève carried on Roman traditions into the Frankish court; she was instrumental in converting Clovis and his wife Clotilde; and when she died, at eighty-nine, a natural death, she was buried by the side of her illustrious disciples. The history of her body will be given at length when we come to examine her church on the South Side, commonly called the Panthéon; but her image may frequently be recognised on early buildings by the figure of a devil at her side, endeavouring in vain (as was his wont) to extinguish her lighted taper—the taper, no doubt, of Roman Christianity, which she did not allow to be quenched by the Frankish invaders.
Round these two sacred personages the whole art and history of early Paris continually cluster. The beautiful figure of the simple peasant enthusiast, Ste. Geneviève, in particular, has largely coloured Parisian ideas and Parisian sympathies. Her shrine still attracts countless thousands of the faithful.
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