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Mabell S. C. Smith. Twenty Centuries of Paris
Twenty Centuries of Paris
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. EARLIEST PARIS
CHAPTER II. MEROVINGIAN PARIS
CHAPTER III. CARLOVINGIAN PARIS
CHAPTER IV. PARIS OF THE EARLY CAPETIANS
CHAPTER V. PARIS OF PHILIP AUGUSTUS
CHAPTER VI. PARIS OF SAINT LOUIS
CHAPTER VII PARIS OF PHILIP THE FAIR
CHAPTER VIII. PARIS OF THE EARLY VALOIS
CHAPTER IX. PARIS OF CHARLES V
CHAPTER X. PARIS OF THE HUNDRED YEARS’ WAR
CHAPTER XI. PARIS OF THE LATER FIFTEENTH CENTURY
CHAPTER XII. PARIS OF THE RENAISSANCE
CHAPTER XIII. PARIS OF THE REFORMATION
CHAPTER XIV. PARIS OF HENRY IV
CHAPTER XV. PARIS OF RICHELIEU
CHAPTER XVI. PARIS OF THE “GRAND MONARQUE”
CHAPTER XVII. PARIS OF LOUIS THE “WELL-BELOVED”
CHAPTER XVIII. PARIS OF THE REVOLUTION
CHAPTER XIX. PARIS OF NAPOLEON
CHAPTER XX. PARIS OF THE LESSER REVOLUTIONS
CHAPTER XXI. PARIS OF LOUIS NAPOLEON
CHAPTER XXII PARIS OF TO-DAY
APPENDIX GENEALOGICAL TABLES OF THE SOVEREIGNS OF FRANCE CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF RULERS, 1792-1913
THE MEROVINGIAN DYNASTY
THE CAPETIAN DYNASTY
HOUSE OF VALOIS
HOUSE OF BOURBON
THE BONAPARTE FAMILY
Chronological Table of Rulers, 1792-1913
THE FIRST REPUBLIC
THE FIRST EMPIRE
RESTORATION OF THE BOURBONS
“THE HUNDRED DAYS”
THE SECOND RESTORATION OF THE BOURBONS
THE SECOND REPUBLIC
THE SECOND EMPIRE
THE THIRD REPUBLIC
INDEX
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Mabell S. C. Smith
Published by Good Press, 2021
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Abbo’s story tells of sorties to secure food, of negotiations that fell through, of a journey made by Eudes to seek help from the Emperor and of the suspicion of treachery that his long absence cast upon him until he banished it by cutting his way through his foes into the town again. His return heartened the besieged, but the besiegers were not disheartened. Hot weather lowered the Seine and an attacking party found footing outside the walls of the island and built a fire against one of the gates. Then in truth the very saints were called on to give aid. Holy Sainte Geneviève’s body had been in some way brought into the Cité from its resting place on the southern hill, and now it was carried about the town that she had succored three centuries before. The trusting declared that they saw Saint Germain in spirit-guise upon the wall encouraging the defenders.
At last Charles appeared upon the hill of Montmartre, but while the plucky fighters in the beleaguered city were preparing to go forth to meet him they learned that once again he had bought off the invading army.
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