Paris has been often described, by travelers, by artists, by savants, by friends and by enemies, yet it was after reading most of the works descriptive of Paris that I felt how much there was still to be written, if not about Paris, at least about the Parisians. (excerpt from the book)
Chapters
1 Introduction 4 min 2 Ch. 1 The First Entrance into Paris 15 min 3 Ch. 2 The Boulevards 26 min 4 Ch. 3 The Tuileries 37 min 5 Ch. 4 The Place De La Concorde etc 19 min 6 Ch. 5 The Faubourg St. Germain 13 min 7 Ch. 6 The Students and the Luxembourg 14 min 8 Ch. 7 The Theatres and the Press 27 min 9 Ch. 8 The Odeon, The Grisettes, and Franconi's 14 min 10 Ch. 9 Le Bal Masque and the Literati 14 min 11 Ch. 10 Sentiments and Cemeteries 16 min 12 Ch. 11 The Louvre - The Kings, Courts and Galleries 23 min 13 Ch. 12 The Sister of Charity - Dame de Charite, and the Enfans Trouves 12 min 14 Ch. 13 The Small Trades of Paris 14 min 15 Ch. 14 The Jeunesse Doree - The Garde Nationale 16 min 16 Ch. 15 The Bourgeoisie 18 min 17 Ch. 16 The Swimming Bath 23 min 18 Ch. 17 Versailles 12 min 19 Ch. 18 Life's First Ceremony and Its Last 16 min 20 Ch. 19 The Palais Royal 29 min 21 Ch. 20 The Pont Neuf, The Morgue, and Notre Dame 27 min 22 Ch. 21 An Editorial Sanctum 22 min 23 Ch. 22 The Temple 16 min 24 Ch. 23 How Paris is Educated 23 min 25 Ch. 24 Foreigners in Paris 20 min 26 Ch. 25 The Influence of Women in France 20 min 27 Ch. 26 Parisian Society and Parisian Celebrities 28 min 28 Ch. 27 A Little About a Few Artists 24 min 29 Ch. 28 The Burial Places of Three Dynasties 16 min
