Seven Ages of Paris (82 page)

Worms, Diet of

Worth, Charles Frederick, 14.1, 15.1, 16.1

Wren, Christopher

Wroblewski, Walery

Yaroslav the Great

Zametti, Sebastiano

Zeppelins

Zola, Emile, 2.1, 9.1, 13.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 19.1; L’Assommoir, 16.4, 16.5; Au bonheur des dames, 14.1; Nana, 14.2, 14.3; Une Page d’amour, 14.4

ALISTAIR HORNE

Seven Ages of Paris

Alistair Horne is a journalist, historian, and author of seventeen previous books, including A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954–1962; The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916; How Far from Austerlitz? Napoleon 1805–1815; and the official biography of British prime minister Harold Macmillan. He was made a Chevalier of the Legion d’Honneur in 1993, and in 2003 given a Knighthood in Britain for services to Franco-British relations. He is a fellow at St. Anthony’s College, Oxford, and was educated at Millbrook School, New York. Horne lives in England, where he is currently completing a short history of France.

Norsemen besieging Paris, from L’Histoire de France racontée à mes petits-enfants by François Guizot. Engraving after Alphonse Marie de Neuville, published 1879 (Archives Charmet/Bridgeman Art Library)

Illustration of Héloïse and Abélard from a fourteenth-century manuscript written by Jean de Meung (ms 482/ 665 f. 60v). Fourteenth-century French school (Musée Condé, Chantilly/Bridgeman Art Library)

Burning of the Templars. Jacques de Molay curses Philippe le Bel. Undated wash drawing (© Bettman/Corbis)

Philippe Auguste II.

Engraving by A. L. François

Sergent-Marceau, 1790 (Stapleton Collection/Bridgeman Art Library)

Manuscript illustration of rioters pillaging a house in Paris, from the Chronicle of France (Roy 20 CVII f. 4IV). Fourteenth-century French school (British Library/Bridgeman Art Library)

Execution of Jacques Clément, assassin of Henri III. A similar fate awaited Ravaillac, assassin of Henri IV. Sixteenth-century engraving from the school of Zacharias Dolendo (Stapleton Collection/Bridgeman Art Library)

Scène galante at the Gates of Paris, detail showing Notre-Dame. Sixteenth-century French School (Musée de la Ville de Paris, Musée Carnavalet/Bridgeman Art Library/Giraudon/Lauros)

Molière. Portrait by Pierre Mignard

(Musée Condé, Chantilly/Bridgeman Art Library/Giraudon)

Jean Racine. Portrait by Jean Baptiste Santerre

(Château de Versailles/Bridgeman Art Library)

Assassination of Henri IV, 14 May 1610. Engraving by Gaspar Bouttats (Bibliothèque Nationale de France/Bridgeman Art Library/Giraudon)

Madame de Maintenon, with Ninon de Lenclos (centre) and André Le Nôtre. Painting by Georgine Gérard, 1837 (Musée Municipal St. Leger, Soissons/The Art Archive/Dagli Orti)

Transporting the equestrian statue of Louis XIV to the Place Vendôme. Painting by René Antoine Houasse, 1699 (Musée Carnavalet/Bridgeman Art Library/Giraudon)

Distribution of bread at the Louvre during the food shortage, engraving, 1709 (Bibliothèque Nationale de France/Bridgeman Art Library/Giraudon/Lauros)

Detail from Démolition des maisons du pont Notre-Dame. Painting by Hubert Robert, 1786 (Louvre/The Art Archive/Dagli Orti)

Clearing of old houses around the Louvre. Watercolour by Thomas Girtin, 1801–2 (Cecil Higgins Art Gallery, Bedford/Bridgeman Art Library)

Dominique-Vivant, Baron Denon, of the Louvre. Portrait by Robert Lefèvre, 1808 (Château de Versailles/Bridgeman Art Library/Giraudon)

The Russian contingent entering Paris. Lithograph, English school, 1814 (Private collection/Bridgeman Art Library)

Napoleon’s unfortunate elephant, Place de la Bastille. Watercolour by Jean-Antoine Alavoine, c. 1810 (Musée de la Ville de Paris, Musée Carnavalet/Bridgeman Art Library/Giraudon/Lauros)

La Vie bohème: an artist’s attic. Pen and ink and watercolour, French school, c. 1830 (Charles Plante Fine Arts/Bridgeman Art Library)

Burning Louis-Philippe’s throne, 1848 Revolution. Lithograph, French school, 1848 (Bibliothèque Nationale de France/Bridgeman Art Library/Archives Charmet)

Napoleon III’s new railway train, 1850s. Nineteenth-century engraving (© Corbis)

Communard barricade, Faubourg Saint-Antoine, March 1871 (Bibliothèque Nationale de France/Bridgeman Art Library/Giraudon/Lauros)

Gustave Eiffel at the top of his tower, 1889 (© Roger-Viollet)

Taxis of the Marne. Watercolour and crayon drawing by André Hellé, 1915 (Musée des Deux Guerres Mondiales, Paris/Bridgeman Art Library)

Allegory of the Armistice, 1919. The Allies receive the defeated Germans, with Clemenceau, Lloyd George, Woodrow Wilson and the diminutive Lawrence of Arabia by the side of Emir Feisal. Sketch by Augustus John, 1919 (The author’s collection)

Sarah Bernhardt in La Dame aux Camélias, c. 1913 (© Corbis)

Josephine Baker, 1920s (Bettmann/Corbis)

Popular Front Demonstration, 1936 (© David Seymour/Magnum Photos)

Edith Piaf, 1955 (© Bettmann/Corbis)

Nazi occupation, Clichy, 1940. The German banner reads “Wehrmacht Snack Bar.” (© Bettmann/Corbis)

Liberation, 1944. In front of Notre-Dame, the crowd takes cover from enemy snipers, 26 August 1944 (Archives de Gaulle, Paris/Bridgeman Art Library/Giraudon)

The Generals’ Putsch, April 1961. Sherman tanks guarding the Assemblée. (© Rue des Archives/AGIP)

Les Evènements, May 1968; a student headquarters in the Sorbonne (© Guy le Querrec/Magnum Photos)

Paris coat of arms, Hôtel de Ville, Paris. Motto: Fluctuat nec mergitur. (It floats but does not sink.) (© Robert Holmes, Corbis)

A lesson in theology at the Sorbonne. Illustration from the fifteenth-century Postilles sur le Pentateuch. (Bibliothèque Municipale, Troyes/ Bridgeman Art Library/Giraudon)

Haymaking outside fifteenth-century Paris; Charles V’s Louvre in the background. From the Très riches heures du Duc de Berry, by the Limbourg brothers (ms 65/1284 f. 6v June; Musée Condé, Chantilly/Bridgeman Art Library/Giraudon)

Henri IV before the walls of Paris. French school, 1594 (Musée de la Ville de Paris, Musée Carnavalet/Bridgeman Art Library/Giraudon/Lauros)

Henry IV’s Reine Margot. Marguerite de Valois. Portrait by François Clouet (Musée Crozatier, Le Puy-en-Velay/Bridgeman Art Library/Giraudon)

Louis XIV, with Louvois, Mansart and Le Nôtre at the Machine de Marly, with Versailles in background. From the Butte de Montboron by Jean-Baptiste Martin, 1688 (Château du Grand Trianon, Versailles/Bridgeman Art Library)

View from the Pont Neuf, by Hendrick Mommers, 1668 (The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle/Bridgeman Art Library)

Louis XIV inspects Les Invalides, 26 August 1706. Painting by Pierre-Denis Martin (Musée de la Ville de Paris, Musée Carnavalet/Bridgeman Art Library/Giraudon)

Napoleon and Josephine plan the coronation, 1804. Illustration from Bonaparte by G. Montorgueil, 1910, lithograph by Jacques Onfray de Breville (Bibliothèque des Arts Decoratifs/Bridgeman Art Library/Archives Charmet)

Parisienne of the Directory period, by Carle Vernet, 1795 (© Dagli Orti/Corbis)

Member of the Directory, from Costumes of the Representatives of the French People. Engraving by Labrousse after Jean Sauveur Legros, 1790 (Musée de la Révolution Française, Vizille/ Bridgeman Art Library/Visual Arts Library)

The consecration of the Emperor Napoleon and the coronation of the Empress Josephine, 2 December 1804, detail from central panel by Jacques Louis David, 1806–7; note artist painted in ex post facto in balcony. (Louvre/Bridgeman Art Library/Giraudon)

Baron Haussmann, Napoleon III and Empress Eugénie visit builders at the Opéra. After E. Gilos, nineteenth century (Château de Compiègne/Oise/Bridgeman Art Library/Giraudon/Lauros)

Paris burns under the Commune, May 1871, by H. Guesnu (© Dagli Orti/Corbis)

Terrace of the Café Wepler, Place Clichy, from Jugend. Lithograph by François Henri Morisset, 1905 (Bridgeman Art Library/Archives Charmet)

A Day at the Races. Painting by Maurice Taquoy, 1926 (Bridgeman Art Library/Whitford & Hughes)

De Gaulle supporters march up the Champs-Elysées, 30 May 1968 (© Bruno Barbey/Magnum Photos)

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(with David Montgomery)

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