CONTENTS

Introduction

Part One:

St.-Germain-des-Prés

The Time of the Three Musketeers

D’Artagnan

The Chapel

Rue Bonaparte

Arrondissements

Queen Margot

St.-Bartholomew’s Day

Huguenots

Le Divorce

D’Artagnan’s Paris

End of the Great Century

The Century of Voltaire

Part Two:

École des Beaux-Arts

The Arch

Académie Française

Some Neighbors

The Mysteries of French History

Details

The Material World

A Nod to the Belle Époque

Nos Jours

Real Life

Apologia

Acknowledgments