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170 CHAPTER XXVI. PRINTING IN PARIS—THE CENSORSHIP. Rue Visconti—Historical Buildings—The National School of Roads and Bridges—The Introduction of Printing into Paris—The First Printing Establishments—The Censorship 174 CHAPTER XXVII. THE HÔTEL DES INVALIDES. A Glance at its History—Louis XIV. and Mme. de Maintenon—The Pensioners—Their Characteristics and Mode of Life 185 CHAPTER XXVIII. SOME MORE PARIS HOSPITALS. The French Hospital System—The Laënnec Hospital—The Houses of Assistance—The Quinze-Vingts—Deaf and Dumb Institutions—The Abbé de l’Épée—La Charité 193 CHAPTER XXIX. LUNATIC ASYLUMS AND MIXED INSTITUTIONS. The Treatment of Lunacy in the Past—La Salpêtrière—Bicêtre—The Story of Latude—The Four Sergeants of La Rochelle—Pinel’s Reforms—Charenton 207 CHAPTER XXX. THE RIVER BIÈVRE AND THE MANUFACTORY OF THE GOBELINS. The Brothers Gobelin—Lebrun—The Gobelins under Louis XIV.—At the Time of the Revolution—The Manufactory of Sèvres 225 CHAPTER XXXI. THE PALAIS BOURBON. The Palais Bourbon—Its History—The National Convention—Philippe Égalité 231 CHAPTER XXXII. SOME HISTORICAL RESIDENCES. The Palace of the Legion of Honour—The Ministry of War—The Rue de Grenelle—Talleyrand 236 CHAPTER XXXIII. THE RUE TARANNE AND DIDEROT. Diderot’s Early Life in Paris—His Love Affairs—Imprisonment in the Château de Vincennes—Diderot and Catherine II. of Russia—His Death 242 CHAPTER XXXIV. MONSEIGNEUR AFFRE AND THE INSURRECTION OF JUNE. The Courtyard of the Dragon—The National Workshops—The Insurrection of June—Monseigneur Affre Shot at the Barricade of the Faubourg St. Antoine 247 CHAPTER XXXV. SOME OCCUPANTS OF MONTPARNASSE. The Boulevard Montparnasse—The Cemetery—Father Loriquet—Hégésippe Moreau—Sainte-Beuve 250 CHAPTER XXXVI. SPORTS AND DIVERSIONS. Le “Sport”—Longchamps—Versailles Races—Fontainebleau—The Seine—Swimming Baths—The Art of Book-collecting 254 CHAPTER XXXVII. FENCING SCHOOLS. Fencing in France—A National Art—Some Extracts from the Writings of M. Legouvé, One of its Chief Exponents—The Old Style of Fencing and the New 257 CHAPTER XXXVIII. PETTY TRADES. Petty Trades—Their Origins—The Day-Banker—The Guardian Angel—The Old-Clothesman—The Claque—Its First Beginning and Development 259 CHAPTER XXXIX. OBSOLETE PARIS SHOPS. The Old Wooden Stalls of Forty Years Ago—The “Lucky Fork”—The Cobbler’ Shops—The Old Cafés 265 CHAPTER XL. THE PARIS PRESS. French Governments and the Press—The Press under Napoleon—Some Account of the Leading Paris Papers—The Figaro 268 CHAPTER XLI. FROM THE QUAI VOLTAIRE TO THE PANTHÉON. The Quai Voltaire—Its Changes of Name—Voltaire—His Life in Paris and Elsewhere—His Remains laid in the Panthéon—Mirabeau—Rousseau—Vincennes 273 CHAPTER XLII. THE PALAIS MAZARIN AND THE RUE MAZARINE. The Institute or Palais Mazarin—The Rue Mazarine—L’Illustre Théâtre—Molière—The Theatre Français—The Odéon—Heine—The Faubourg Saint-Germain—Historical Associations 288 CHAPTER XLIII. THE PARIS RIVER AND PARIS COMMERCE. The Society of the Water-Merchants of Paris—The Navigation of the Seine—The Paris Slaughter-Houses—Records of Famine in France—The Lot of the French Peasant in the Last Century—The Paris Food Supply 307 CHAPTER XLIV. THE BARRIERS—PARISIAN CRIME. The Approaches to Paris—The French Railway System—The St. Germain Railway—The Erection of the Barriers—Some of the most famous Barriers—Parisian Crime—Its Special Characteristics 317 CHAPTER XLV. PARISIAN MENDICANCY—THE PARIS POOR. Parisian Mendicancy in the Sixteenth Century—The General Hospital—Louis XV. and the Beggars—The Revolution—Mendicancy as a Regular Profession—The Organ-grinders and the Trade in Italian Children—The French Treatment of the Poor—Asylums, Almshouses, and Retreats—The Droit des Pauvres—The Cost of the Poor 324 CHAPTER XLVI. VERSAILLES. Derivation of the Name—Saint-Simon’s Description—Louis XIV.—The Grand Fête of July, 1668—Peter the Great and the Regent—Louis XV.—Marie Antoinette and the “Affair of the Necklace”—The Events of October, 1789 338 CHAPTER XLVII. VERSAILLES AND THE SIEGE OF PARIS. The Advance on Paris—Preparations for the Siege—General Trochu—The Francs-Tireurs—The Siege 348 CHAPTER XLVIII. VERSAILLES AND THE COMMUNE. The Communists or Communards—The “Internationale”—Bismarck and the National Guard—The Municipal Elections—The Insurrection—Thiers—Paris during the Commune—Concluding Remarks 355 INDEX: A, B, C, D, E,