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Index
Cover
ALSO BY Ina Caro
Title Page
Dedication
Contents
List of Maps
Prologue: Two Love Affairs
PART ONE The Middle Ages: CATHEDRALS AND FORTRESSES
1. Saint-Denis: The Monarchy and the Gothic Cathedral
2. Laon: Early Gothic
3. Chartres: The High Gothic Cathedral at Chartres
4. The Coronation Ceremony at the Cathedral of Reims
5. The Louvre: A Late-Twelfth-Century Fortress
6. Angers: Blanche of Castile’s Early-Thirteenth-Century Fortress
7. Sainte-Chapelle in Paris
8. Vincennes: A Fortress of the Hundred Years War
9. Joan of Arc: 1429 and the End of the Hundred Years War at Orléans
10. Rouen: Joan of Arc and Monet
PART TWO The Renaissance CITIES AND CASTLES
11. Tours: The Rebirth of Cities After the Hundred Years War
12. Blois: A Sixteenth-Century Renaissance Château
13. Francis I and the Renaissance at Fontainebleau
14. Henry IV in Paris: The Hôtel de Sens, the Place des Vosges, and the Luxembourg Gardens
15. The Siege of La Rochelle and the End of the Reformation in France
PART III The Age of Louis XIV SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY FRANCE
16. Magical Vaux-le-Vicomte
17. Versailles
18. The Secret Castle of Maintenon
PART IV The Coming of the French Revolution PARIS IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
19. Parisian Sights: Palais-Royal, Hôtel Carnavalet, Hôtel de Soubise, École Militaire, the Panthéon, Place de la Concorde
20. The Petit Trianon of Madame de Pompadour and Marie-Antoinette
21. The Conciergerie
PART V The Empire and Restoration THE BOURGEOIS CENTURY
22. Napoleon as Consul at Malmaison
23. Napoleon at Compiègne
24. The Restoration (1815–1848) at Chantilly
Coda: My Favorite Emperor and Me
Acknowledgments
Source Notes
Index
Praise
Copyright
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