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Intro -- Introduction -- Illustrations and Maps -- 1. ANTIQUITY AND THE MIDDLE AGES TO 1400 -- Map I. Paris c. 1400 -- Julian the Apostate, Misopogon -- Abbo of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, The Battles of the City of Paris -- Gui de Bazoches, Letter to a Friend -- Johannes de Hauvilla, Architrenius -- Rigord, The Deeds of Philip Augustus -- The Monasteries of Paris -- Adenet Le Roi, Berte aus grans piés -- The Bridges of Paris -- Jean de Jandun, Treatise of the Praises of Paris -- Christine de Pisan, Le livre des faits et bonnes moeurs -- 2. THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY -- Eustache Deschamps, Quant j'ai la terre et mer avironee -- Guillebert de Mets, Description of the City of Paris -- Parisian Views from the Très Riches Heures of Jean, Duke of Berry -- Antoine Astesan, Descriptive Eulogy of the City of Paris -- Altarpiece of the Parlement of Paris -- Jean Fouquet, Paris in Perspective -- Master of Saint Giles, Saint Leu Working Miraculous Cures -- 3. THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY -- Map II. Paris c. 1600 -- Alberto Vignati, Description of the City of Paris -- The Great Manuscript Map and Its Progeny -- Eustathius von Knobelsdorf, Lutetiae Descriptio -- Episodes from the Parable of the Prodigal Son -- View of the Cemetery and Church of the Holy Innocents -- Jacques Androuet Du Cerceau the Elder, The Grand' Salle -- Arnold van Buchel of Utrecht, Description of Paris -- Procession of the Reliquary of Saint Genevieve -- François II Bunel (attrib.), The Procession of the Catholic League -- Francesco Gregory d'Ierni, Paris in 1596 Seen by an Italian -- Thomas Platter the Younger of Basel, Description of Paris -- 4. THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY -- Views Up and Down the Seine -- Étienne Martellange, Two Parisian Views -- Anonymous, Vista of Paris -- Jacques Callot, View from the Pont Neuf and View to the Pont Neuf -- Anonymous Flemish Painter, View from the Pont Neuf. |
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Eustache Le Sueur, View of Paris with the Plan of the Charterhouse -- Israël Silvestre, View from the Pont des Tuileries -- The People of Paris as Subjects of Art -- Abraham Bosse, Cris de Paris -- Jean Michelin, The Baker's Cart -- Abraham Bosse, La Galerie du Palais -- Pierre Corneille, La Galerie du Palais ou l'Amie rivale -- Sebastiano Locatelli, Voyage de France -- Popular Religion: Festivals and Processions -- Henri Sauval, Festivals and Processions -- The Parisian Underworld -- Henri Sauval, The Courts of Miracles -- Sebastiano Locatelli, Crime and Punishment -- Paris Satirized -- François Berthod and François Chauveau, Paris Burlesque -- Paul Scarron, Paris -- Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, Sixth Satire -- Paris and London Compared -- John Evelyn, The State of France -- The Faubourgs -- Sebastiano Locatelli, A Traveler's Description -- Louis de Licherie, The Ecstasy of Saint Joseph -- Israël Silvestre, View from the Plaine de Vaugirard -- A Late-Century Visitor -- Martin Lister, A Journey to Paris in the Year 1698 -- 5. THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY -- Map III. Paris c. 1800 -- Paris Revealed: The Plan Turgot -- Joachim Christoph Nemeitz, A Handbook for Foreign Visitors -- Étienne Jeaurat: A Mid-Century Painter of the Streets -- Gabriel-Jacques de Saint-Aubin, Recorder of Parisian Life -- Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Raguenet: Painter of Parisian Views -- Two Late-Century Observers -- Louis-Sébastien Mercier, Le Tableau de Paris -- Nicolas-Edme Restif de la Bretonne, Les Nuits de Paris -- The End of Old Paris: Some Witnesses of the Revolution -- Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin, Letters of a Russian Traveler -- William Augustus Miles, Correspondence on the French Revolution -- Nicolas Ruault, Letter from Paris -- Henry Swinburne, Letter from Paris -- Notes -- Bibliographical Guide. |
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