Historic Paris by Jetta Sophia Wolff

1713. Rue de Vanves, leading to what was in olden days the village of

the name, crosses Rue du Château at the point where in the eighteenth century the duc de Maine had a hunting-lodge. In Avenue du Maine we see ancient houses at intervals. Rue du Moulin-Vert recalls the existence of one of the numerous windmills on the land around the city in former days. Rue de la Gaité (eighteenth century) has ever been true to its name or the name true to the locality--one of dancing saloons and other popular amusements. The Cinema des Mille Colonnes was in pre-cinema days the “Bal des Mille Colonnes,” opened in 1833. Passing on up Avenue du Maine we come to arrondissement XV.

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Chapter 1 Ch.1
CHAPTER I Ch.2
1784. They were burnt down in 1828 and replaced by the Galerie Ch.3
CHAPTER II Ch.4
CHAPTER III Ch.5
1790. More than a million bodies are said to have been buried in that Ch.6
1850. The beautiful portal of the ancient bureau des Marchandes-lingères Ch.7
CHAPTER IV Ch.8
CHAPTER V Ch.9
1899. Rue d’Uzès crosses the site of the ancient hôtel d’Uzès. Rue de Ch.10
1823. Four short streets of ancient date cross Rue de la Lune: Rue Ch.11
CHAPTER VI Ch.12
CHAPTER VII Ch.13
1882. At No. 153 was the eighteenth-century _bureau des Ch.14
CHAPTER VIII Ch.15
CHAPTER IX Ch.16
CHAPTER X Ch.17
CHAPTER XI Ch.18
1855. The short Rue de la Tâcherie (from _tâche_: task, work) crossing Ch.19
1320. Its name shortened from _mauvaise buée_, i.e. _mauvaise fumée_, is Ch.20
CHAPTER XII Ch.21
CHAPTER XIII Ch.22
1802. Here Fouquet and his son, Mme de Chantal, and the Marquis de Ch.23
CHAPTER XIV Ch.24
CHAPTER XV Ch.25
CHAPTER XVI Ch.26
CHAPTER XVII Ch.27
CHAPTER XVIII Ch.28
CHAPTER XIX Ch.29
CHAPTER XX Ch.30
CHAPTER XXI Ch.31
CHAPTER XXII Ch.32
CHAPTER XXIII Ch.33
25. Sardou in his youth at No. 26. Augustin Thierry lived for ten years Ch.34
CHAPTER XXIV Ch.35
CHAPTER XXV Ch.36
CHAPTER XXVI Ch.37
1851. Nos. 85, 87, 89, eighteenth century, belonged to a branch of the Ch.38
CHAPTER XXVII Ch.39
CHAPTER XXVIII Ch.40
CHAPTER XXIX Ch.41
CHAPTER XXX Ch.42
CHAPTER XXXI Ch.43
1860. It was a favourite street for residence in the nineteenth century. Ch.44
CHAPTER XXXII Ch.45
122. Eugène Sue at No. 55. Comtesse de la Valette at No. 44, a _hôtel_ Ch.46
CHAPTER XXXIII Ch.47
CHAPTER XXXIV Ch.48
CHAPTER XXXV Ch.49
1898. Marshal Ney lived at No. 12. In Rue de la Tour des Dames a Ch.50
CHAPTER XXXVI Ch.51
CHAPTER XXXVII Ch.52
CHAPTER XXXVIII Ch.53
CHAPTER XXXIX Ch.54
1852. No. 73 is the Hospice des Vieillards, worked by the Petites Ch.55
CHAPTER XL Ch.56
CHAPTER XLI Ch.57
1710. That first convent and church were razed in 1797. The Carmelites Ch.58
1713. Rue de Vanves, leading to what was in olden days the village of Ch.59
CHAPTER XLII Ch.60
CHAPTER XLIII Ch.61
1879. She had planned filling it with her magnificent collection of Ch.62
CHAPTER XLIV Ch.63
20. Rue de l’Annonciation began in the early years of the eighteenth Ch.64
CHAPTER XLV Ch.65
1898. Avenue de Wagram in its course from the Arc de Triomphe to Place Ch.66
CHAPTER XLVI Ch.67
CHAPTER XLVII Ch.68
CHAPTER XLVIII Ch.69
CHAPTER XLIX Ch.70
1783. This name was changed more than once in subsequent years. After Ch.71
1850. The novelist Paul de Kock lived at No 8. No. 17 was the abode of Ch.72
CHAPTER L Ch.73
CHAPTER LI Ch.74
1751. Many names of historic note are associated with the handsome house Ch.75
CHAPTER LII Ch.76
1718. It was then rebuilt minus its wooden houses. The present structure Ch.77
1786. Pont Notre-Dame was the “bridge of honour.” Sovereigns coming to Ch.78