Suddenly at noon, these streets are all astir with an industrial, unarmed mob, and the whole quarter is given over to an insurrection, peaceful and unoffending. These workers are making their way to restaurant or _rôtisserie_ or _cabaret_; some of them saunter along, taking their breakfast "_sur le pouce_." The men, in stained blouses, are alert, earnest, and self-respecting; the girls, direct of gaze, frank of manner, shrill of voice, wear enwrapping aprons, that fall from neck to ankle, and their hair, the glory of the French working-woman who goes hatless, is dressed with an artless art that would not dishonor a drawing-room. We can carry away with us, from these last scenes, no more captivating memory than this of the most modern woman of our Marais.
Amboise, Bussy d', II., site of his murder, 107
Anne of Brittany, I., 36; built the still existing refectory of the Cordelier Convent, 230; II., wife and widow of Charles VIII., 186; marries Louis XII., 187
Arsenal, the library of the, II., 250 _et seq._
Aubriot, Hugues, Provost of Paris, builder of the Bastille, II., 174; tower and staircase of, 174 _et seq._
Balzac, Honoré de, II., birthplace, 53; homes in Paris, 54, 60, 61, 62; site of type foundry, 58; mode of writing, 64-66; scenes and characters of, 76-80; marriage and death, 81 _et seq._
Barras, Paul-François-Jean-Nicolas, Comte de, I., 256
Barye, Antoine-Louis, II., home and studio of, 253
Beaumarchais, de Pierre-Augustin Caron, I., birthplace and homes of, 217-218
Béjart, Armande, I., wife and widow of Molière, 119; sketched, 122 _et seq._
---- Madeleine, sister or mother of Armande, friend of Molière, I., 117; opposes his marriage, 122
Béranger, Pierre-Jean de, II., house at Passy, 71; in prison, 137
Bernardins, monastery of the, I., modern use of its refectory, 45
Bièvre, the river, I., 21, 27, 43; II. 155-156
Blanche of Castile, I., house and stairway of, 27 _et seq._; widow of Louis VIII., 36
Boccaccio, I., records Dante's visit to Paris, 83
Boffrand, Germain, I, architect of Charles Lebrun's _hôtel_, 43
Boileau-Despréaux, Nicolas, I., in the cloisters of Notre-Dame, 75-76; offers to surrender his pension to Corneille, 142; sketch of, 178 _et seq._; studied in the Sorbonne, 183; site of his house at Auteuil, 186; lodgings in Paris, 188; final resting-place, 199