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Dumas Paris

UNIFORM VOLUMES
Dickens London
By Francis Miltoun
Library 12mo, cloth, gilt top	$2.00
The Same, levant morocco	5.00
Miltons England
By Lucia Ames Mead
Library 12mo, cloth, gilt top	2.00
The Same, levant morocco	5.00
Dumas Paris
By Francis Miltoun
Library 12mo, cloth, gilt top	net	1.60
postpaid	1.75
The Same, levant morocco	net	4.00
postpaid	4.15
L. C. PAGE & COMPANY New England Building Boston, Mass.

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Alexandre Dumas

Dumas Paris

By

Francis Miltoun
Author of Dickens London, Cathedrals of Southern
France, Cathedrals of Northern France, etc.

With two Maps and many Illustrations

Boston
L. C. Page & Company
MDCCCCV

Copyright, 1904
By L. C. Page & Company
(INCORPORATED)

All rights reserved

Published November, 1904

COLONIAL PRESS
Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co.
Boston, Mass., U.S.A.

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Contents

CHAPTER	PAGE
A General Introduction
Dumas Early Life in Paris
Dumas Literary Career
Dumas Contemporaries
The Paris of Dumas
Old Paris
Ways and Means of Communication
The Banks of the Seine
The Second Empire and After
La Ville
La Cit
LUniversit Quartier
The Louvre
The Palais Royal
The Bastille
The Royal Parks and Palaces
The French Provinces
Les Pays trangers
Appendices
Index

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List of Illustrations

PAGE

Alexandre Dumas

Dumas House at Villers-Cotterets

Statue of Dumas at Villers-Cotterets

Facsimile of Dumas Own Statement of His Birth

Facsimile of a Manuscript Page from One of Dumas Plays

DArtagnan

Alexandre Dumas , Fils

Two Famous Caricatures of Alexandre Dumas

Tomb of Abelard and Hlose

General Foys Residence

DArtagnan, from the Dumas Statue by Gustave Dor

Pont NeufPont au Change

Portrait of Henry IV.

Grand Bureau de la Poste

The Odon in 1818

Palais Royal, Street Front

77 Rue dAmsterdamRue de St. Denis

Place de la Grve

Tour de St. Jacques la Boucherie (Mryons Etching, Le Stryge)

Htel des Mousquetaires, Rue dArbre Sec

DArtagnans Lodgings, Rue Tiquetonne

109 Rue du Faubourg St. Denis (Dscamps Studio)

Ntre Dame de Paris

Plan of La Cit

Carmelite Friary, Rue Vaugirard

Plan of the Louvre

The Gardens of the Tuileries

The Orleans Bureau, Palais Royal

The Fall of the Bastille

Inn of the Pont de Svres

Bois de BoulogneBois de VincennesFort de Villers-Cotterets

Chteau of the Ducs de Valois, Crpy

Castle of Pierrefonds

Ntre Dame de Chartres

Castle of AngersChteau of Blois

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Dumas Paris

CHAPTER I.

A GENERAL INTRODUCTION

There have been many erudite works, in French and other languages, describing the antiquities and historical annals of Paris from the earliest times; and in English the mid-Victorian era turned outthere are no other words for itinnumerable books of travel which recounted alleged adventures, strewn here and there with bits of historical lore and anecdotes, none too relevant, and in most cases not of undoubted authenticity.

Of the actual life of the people in the city of light and learning, from the times of Napoleon onward, one has to go to the fountainhead of written records, the acknowledged masterworks in the language of the country itself, the reports and annuaires of various socits, commissions, and what not, and collect therefrom such information as he finds may suit his purpose.

In this manner may be built up a fabric which shall be authentic and proper, varied and, most likely, quite different in its plan, outline, and scope from other works of a similar purport, which may be recalled in connection therewith.

Paris has been rich in topographical historians, and, indeed, in her chroniclers in all departments, and there is no end of relative matter which may be evolved from an intimacy with these sources of supply. In a way, however, this information ought to be supplemented by a personal knowledge on the part of the compiler, which should make localities, distances, and environmentsto say nothing of the actual facts and dates of historyappear as something more than a shrine to be worshipped from afar.

Given, then, these ingredients, with a love of the subject,no less than of the city of its domicile,it has formed a pleasant itinerary in the experiences of the writer of this book to have followed in the footsteps of Dumas pre, through the streets that he knew and loved, taking note meanwhile of such contemporary shadows as were thrown across his path, and such events of importance or significance as blended in with the scheme of the literary life of the times in which he lived, none the less than of those of the characters in his books.

Nearly all the great artists have adored Parispoets, painters, actors, and, above all, novelists.

From which it follows that Paris is the ideal city for the novelist, who, whether he finds his special subjects in her streets or not, must be inspired by this unique fulness and variety of human life. Nearly all the great French novelists have adored Paris. Dumas loved it; Victor Hugo spent years of his time in riding about her streets on omnibuses; Daudet said splendid things of it, and nearly, if not quite, all the great names of the artistic world of France are indissolubly linked with it.

Paris to-day means not La Ville, La Cit, or LUniversit, but the whole triumvirate. Victor Hugo very happily compared the three cities to a little old woman between two handsome, strapping daughters.

It was Beranger who announced his predilection for Paris as a birthplace. Dumas must have felt something of the same emotion, for he early gravitated to the City of Liberty and Equality, in whicheven before the great Revolutionmisfortune was at all times alleviated by sympathy.

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From the stones of Paris have been built up many a lordly volumeand many a slight one, for that matterwhich might naturally be presumed to have recounted the last word which may justifiably have been said concerning the various aspects of the life and historic events which have encircled around the city since the beginning of the moyen age.

This is true or not, according as one embraces a wide or a contracted horizon in ones view.

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