Contents
Introduction: Before the Crossing
FIRST CENTURY: Cité, Caesar’s Cradle
SECOND CENTURY: Place d’Italie, All Roads Lead to Rome
THIRD CENTURY: Notre-Dame-des-Champs, The Martyrdom of Saint Denis
FOURTH CENTURY: Saint-Martin, Paris, Imperial Residence
FIFTH CENTURY: Louvre-Rivoli, Paris, Capital of the Franks
SIXTH CENTURY: Saint-Michel-Notre-Dame, The Merovingians, Elder Sons of the Church
SEVENTH CENTURY: Saint-Germain-des-Prés, From One Abbey Emerges Another
EIGHTH CENTURY: Saint-Denis, The Final Splendor of Kings
NINTH CENTURY: Châtelet-Les-Halles, The Hour of the Counts
TENTH CENTURY: La Chapelle, Triumph of the Capetians
ELEVENTH CENTURY: Arts et Métiers, The Millennium Myth
TWELFTH CENTURY: Philippe Auguste, Paris, Capital of France
THIRTEENTH CENTURY: Maubert-Mutualité, The University Takes Off
FOURTEENTH CENTURY: Hôtel de Ville, The Birth of the Third Estate
FIFTEENTH CENTURY: Château de Vincennes, Paris at Risk
SIXTEENTH CENTURY: Palais-Royal-Musée du Louvre, The Shadow and Light of the Renaissance
SEVENTEENTH CENTURY: Invalides, The Price of the Great Century
EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: Bastille, The Fury of the Faubourg
NINETEENTH CENTURY: République, In Five Acts and Dramatic Moments
TWENTIETH CENTURY: Champs-Élysées-Clemenceau, The Ways of Power