CONTENTS

Title Page

Copyright Notice

Dedication

Introduction

ÎLE DE LA CITÉ

THE SCANDALOUS LOVE OF HÉLOISE AND ABELARD

9–11, Quai aux Fleurs, Notre-Dame Cathedral Close

LOUIS IX AND THE DARK SIDE OF SAINTHOOD

8, boulevard du Palais, Sainte-Chapelle

OLYMPE DE GOUGES: ROBESPIERRE’S VICTIM

2, boulevard du Palais, Conciergerie

HENRI IV’S BEAUTIFUL CITY

Pont Neuf: Place Dauphine; Louvre; Square du Vert Galant; Place des Vosges

ÎLE SAINT-LOUIS

HONORÉ DAUMIER’S HUMAN COMEDY

9, Quai d’Anjou: Along the North Bank of Île Saint-Louis

THE LEFT BANK

THE LATIN QUARTER

GOING SANE WITH MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

Rue des Écoles, Statue: Square Paul-Painlevé; Collège de France; Louvre; Latin Quarter

THE LONELY PASSION OF MARIE CURIE

10, Place du Panthéon, Bibliothèque Sainte-Genevieve

SIMONE WEIL: SOUL ON FIRE

23, rue Clovis, Lycée Henri IV

BENGHABRIT, JEWS, AND THE GESTAPO

2, Place du Puits-de-l’Ermite, Grand Mosque of Paris

SAINT-GERMAIN-DES-PRÉS

VOLTAIRE: DYING INTACT

13, rue de l’Ancienne-Comédie, Le Procope, 27, Quai Voltaire: Le Voltaire Café

ALBERT CAMUS: CONSCIENCE OF HIS GENERATION

Place Saint-Sulpice, Café de la Mairie

MONTPARNASSE AND SOUTHERN PARIS

JEAN MOULIN: HERO OF THE RESISTANCE

26, rue des Plantes, Hideaway

ALBERTO GIACOMETTI: WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT THERE IS

46, rue Hippolyte-Maindron, Studio

WESTERN PARIS

FRANCIS POULENC’S SOUL MUSIC

11, Place des États-Unis, Musée Baccarat

THE RIGHT BANK

CHAMPS-ÉLYSÉES AND ENVIRONS

COLETTE: HER GARDEN OF LOVE

9, rue de Beaujolais, Palais Royal

NORTHERN PARIS AND MONTMARTRE

FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN’S FALLEN ANGEL

16, rue Chaptal, Musée de la Vie Romantique, 80 rue Taitbout, Square d’Orléans

RAISING HELL IN PIGALLE: FRANçOIS TRUFFAUT’S THE 400 BLOWS

33, rue de Navarin, and the Streets of the Ninth Arrondissement

PATRICK MODIANO’S MISSING PERSONS

Rue Berthe and Place Émile-Goudeau, La Butte Montmartre

THE MARAIS

REINE MARGOT: LEGENDS AND LIES

1, rue du Figuier, Bibliothèque Forney, Hôtel de Sens

NINON DE L’ENCLOS: VOLTAIRE’S FIRST COURTESAN

34, rue des Tournelles, Hôtel de Sagonne

AROUND BASTILLE AND NORTHEASTERN PARIS

“PERMISSION TO DIE, MOTHER?”: SISTER CONSTANCE AND THE DIALOGUES OF THE CARMELITES

Place de la Nation: 35, rue de Picpus, Picpus Cemetery: The Walled Garden of Memory

ÉDITH PIAF: THE LITTLE SPARROW

72, rue de Belleville, The Hills of Belleville, Ménilmontant, and Rue Oberkampf

Notes

Acknowledgments and Thanks to

Sources

Index

Also by Susan Cahill

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