Musée d’Histoire Naturelle, 117
Napoleon I, Emperor of France, 11, 43, 44, 112, 120, 142, 181, 188, 236, 317
Napoleon III, Emperor of France, 188, 201–6, 236, 244, 247, 251
background of, 202–3
and coup d’etat of December, 1851, 204–5
description of, 201
in Franco-Prussian War, 258–60
leadership style of, 203
personality of, 201–2
popularity of, 203
in prison escape, 203
proclaimed emperor, 206
Tocqueville on, 202
Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave (Brown), 195
Nation, 273
National Academy, French, 159
National Academy of the Arts of Design, 84, 96, 150, 154, 198, 242, 343
National Assembly, French, 185, 186, 187–88
dissolution of, 204
National Guard, French, 183, 280, 285, 299, 300, 312
central committee of, 307–8, 309, 319
government assault on, 319–20
onset of Paris Commune and, 306–7
National Park Service, U.S., 455
Nativist movement, 149–50
Navy, U.S., 70, 361
Nesbit, Evelyn, 454
Netherlands, 269
New American Practical Navigator, The (Bowditch), 118
New Arabian Nights (Stevenson), 432
New Gallery, 420
New Orleans Courier, 166
New York Commercial Advertiser, 150
New York Evening Post, 83, 86, 149, 198, 384
New York Herald, 140, 148
New York Infirmary and College for Women, 194
NewYork Mirror, 9, 15, 58, 100
New York Observer, 93, 150, 159
New York Times, 198, 204, 219, 232, 247–48, 251, 293, 384, 403, 415, 419, 454
New York Tribune, 189, 305, 331
New York University, 149
New York World, 236, 273, 381
Niagara Falls (Church), 249
Nicholas I, Czar of Russia, 221
Nichols, Rose, 438–39
Niépce, Joseph-Nicéphore, 158
Notions of the Americans (Cooper), 92
Notre-Dame Cathedral, 104, 206, 208, 215, 405, 412
Paris Commune and, 316, 325
view of Paris from, 39–40
Notre-Dame de Paris, see Hunchback of Notre-Dame, The Nourse, Elizabeth, 411
Nouvelle République, 309
Noyes, Edward, 356
Oakley, Annie, 416
Observateur, 175
Offenbach, Jacques, 257
Ogden, William B., 220–21, 234
“Old Ironsides” (Holmes), 6
Olympia (Manet), 399
omnibuses, 31–32
Ontario (horse), 436
opera, 48–51
at the Paris Opera, 48, 49–50, 135, 406
at the Théâtre Italien, 48–49
Opéra Comique, 226
Osler, William, 132
Ossoli, Angelo, 190
Otello (Verdi), 48
Otis, Harrison Gray, 9
Otis, Sally Foster, 9, 143
Otis Elevator Company, 417
Owen, Clara Belle, 411–12
Pacific (brig), 15
Pacific (steamer), 210–11, 219
Paget, Violet, see Lee, Vernon
Pailleron, Édouard, 390
Paine, Thomas, 211
Palace of the Popes, 368
Palais de Justice, 208, 286, 310, 322
Palais de l’Élysée, 188
Palais de l’Industrie, 220, 461
Palais des Beaux-Arts, 415
Palais des Machines, 415
Palais Royal, 27, 28, 29, 52, 53, 112, 213, 227, 287, 322, 423
Palazzo Colonna, 64
“Panama Bubble,” 414
Panama Canal, 407–8, 414
Panama Canal Company, 414
Panini, Giovanni Paolo, 63
Pantheon, 193, 298, 299, 424
Parc Monceau, 208
Parc Neuilly, 416
Paris:
Americans and economy of, 334
American students in, 119–23
American women in, 188–89
architecture of, 40, 46–47
“art missionaries” in, 411
beggars of, 36
bridges of, 40–41
cholera epidemic in, see cholera epidemic of 1832
Cooper’s circumnavigation of, 37–38
department stores in, 250–51
dining in, 35
1834 demonstrations in, 127–28
1848 revolution in, see Revolution of 1848
1851 population of, 207
Expositions of, see specific Universal Expositions
fashion in, 33–34, 49, 162, 204, 235
first impressions of, 25–29
foreigners in, 33–34, 49
gambling in, 53
gardens of, 28, 37, 42, 43–45
glass material in, 34–35
Grant’s visit to, 356
illegitimate children in, 55–56
July 4, 1832, celebration in, 94–95
language and, 28, 32–33
as la ville lumière, 208
mail service in, 55–56
medical center and hospitals of, see Paris Médicale
metro system of, 446
morgue of, 45–46
Napoleon III’s transformation and modernization of, 206–9, 219, 236
New Orleans’s affinity with, 164
omnibuses of, 31–32
origins of, 25, 40
performing arts in, 48–51
the poor in, 45
prostitutes in, 54–55, 249
Prussian siege of, see Paris, siege of
restaurants and cafés of, 52–53
Seventh Arrondissement of, 45, 73
Sixth Arrondissement of, 29
soldiers stationed in streets of, 55
street lights of, 406
Sundays in, 36–37
trades practiced in, 35–36
Twain’s view of, 248–49
viewed from Montmartre, 38–39
viewed from Notre-Dame, 39–40
walking in, 31
women of, 34, 42
see also specific landmarks, sections, and streets
Paris, siege of, 267–72, 279–301
aftermath of, 304
American Legation in, 271, 282, 290, 297
Americans in, 284, 287–88
American sympathy for, 293
balloon mail in, 280
death toll in, 297, 299, 303
defenses in, 280, 286
disease and, 289
exchanges of correspondence in, 279–80
expulsion of German population in, 270–72
food and provisions crisis in, 287, 288–90, 293–97
French sorties and attacks in, 280–81, 284, 291, 300
French surrender in, 301, 303
French troops in, 267–68
Gambetta’s escape from, 281–82
historic precedents for, 279
insomnia suffered in, 288
newspapers in, 287
“Red Paris” uprising in, 284–86
surrender of Metz and, 284
Washburne in, 269–70, 271, 281, 282–83, 304–6
Washburne’s diary of, 285–86, 287, 289, 290, 291–94, 295, 297, 298–301
weather and, 279, 282, 287, 288–90, 292–94, 296, 300
“wood riot” in, 295
Paris Commune, 306–27
aftermath of, 326–27
archbishop arrest and execution in, 311–15, 318–21, 325
atrocities in, 322–25
Bloody Week in, 320
destruction of landmarks in, 321
“Friends of Order” protest in, 308
government offensive in, 319–20
Hôtel
de Ville headquarters of, 308–9
Louvre and, 316, 321, 323, 326–27
Moulton estate and, 315–16
Moulton-Rigault interview in, 310–11
onset of, 306–8
priests persecuted in, 311–12, 314
refugees in exodus from, 312
system of denunciation in, 309
Vendôme column demolished in, 316–17
Versailles government and, 308–9, 311
Washburne in, 305–15, 318–21, 323, 325
Washburne’s diary of, 312–13, 321, 324–25, 328–31
Paris Exposition of 1855, 219–20, 247, 249
Paris Guide, 261
Parisians, The (Bulwer-Lytton), 209
Parisii, 25, 279
Paris Médicale, 103–6
American medical practice and, 133
American students in, 129–33
black students in, 131
dissection of cadavers in, 115–17
foreign students in, 106
hospitals of, 104–5
leading physicians of, 105–6
medical training in, 115
population of, 103
visitors to, 104
women patients in, 115
Paris Opera, 48–49, 135, 406
Paris Salon, 388, 397
Cassatt in, 337, 339, 341
of 1884, 401–2
Farragut piece in, 381
Healy in, 143
Madame X in, 401–2
Sherman piece in, 439–40
Parker, Theodore, 234
Pasdeloup Orchestra, 389
Pasteur, Louis, 113
Holmes’s meeting with, 424–25
Pathfinder, The (Cooper), 101
Patrick, John Douglas, 416
Payne, John Howard, 31, 79
Peace of God, The (Adams Memorial), 430, 440–41
Peale, Charles Willson, 78–79, 146
Peale, Rembrandt, 64
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 340, 427
Pennsylvania Railroad, 394
Père Lachaise Cemetery, 45, 132, 323–24, 325
Wall of the Communards of, 324
Périgord, 52
Petit, Georges, 397–98
Petit Journal, Le, 415
Peugeot, Armand, 445
Phèdre (Racine), 367
Philadelphia, 16
photography, Morse intrigued by, 157–59
Picture Gallery of Cardinal Silvio Valenti Gonzaga, The (Panini), 63–64
Pilot, The (Cooper), 71
Pioneers, The (Cooper), 70–71, 72, 106
Pissarro, Camille, 342, 418, 419
Place de la Concorde, 43, 260, 306, 313, 319, 320, 321
Place de l’Étoile, 210
Place du Panthéon, 209
Place Vendôme, 43, 120, 308, 316–17, 320, 321, 326, 356
Poland, 85, 186
Polk, James K., 160, 180, 185, 197
Pont Alexandre III, 446, 448
Pont d’Austerlitz, 214
Pont d’Avignon, 368
Pont des Arts, 41, 155, 451
Pont d’Iéna, 247
Pont Neuf, 40–41, 121, 168, 351, 425
Portraits d’Enfants, see Daughters of Edward Darley Boit
Pottawatomie Massacre, 225
Poussin, Nicolas, 90
Prado Museum, 389, 396
Prairie, The (Cooper), 57, 61, 167
Precaution (Cooper), 70
Prefecture of Police, 322, 326
Prendergast, Maurice, 426–27
Presse, La, 212
Printemps, Le, 251
Prisoners from the Front (Homer), 249
Procopio del Cotillo, Francesco, 57
prostitutes, 54–55, 249
Prussia, 247
see also Franco-Prussian War
Puccini, Giacomo, 221
Puritan, The (Saint-Gaudens), 430, 448–49
Putnam, Mary, 260, 270, 288–89, 297, 298, 304
as graduate from École de Médecine, 289, 327
Quai d’Orsay, 247
Racine, Jean, 10, 51, 367
Raft of the Medusa (Géricault), 65, 261
Stowe’s admiration for, 216–17
Raimondi, Carlo, 338
Raphael, 42, 47, 62, 80
Rappel, Le, 304
Reading Le Figaro (Cassatt), 353–54
Recollections (Washburne), 355
Red Cross, 286
Red Paris uprising, 284–88
Reign of Terror, 11, 94, 325
Rembrandt van Rijn, 63, 145, 218, 412
Stowe on, 215
Remington Arms Company, 270
Reminiscences (Saint-Gaudens), 359
Renaissance, 65, 80, 256
Renault, Louis, 445
Reni, Guido, 8, 90
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste, 342, 351, 418, 419
Répétition de Ballet (Ballet Rehearsal) (Degas), 342
Republican Party, U.S., 277
restaurants, 52–53
see also specific restaurants and cafes
Revolution of 1830, 65
Revolution of 1848, 182–88, 307
abdication of Louis-Philippe in, 183–84
American recognition in, 185
February uprising in, 182–83
June uprising in, 186–88
Marx’s comment on, 187
republican government in, 184–85, 188
Rush’s address in, 185
Revue des Deux Mondes, 381–82
Revue Musicale, La, 166
Reynolds, William, 270
Richard I (Lionheart), King of England, 24
Richard III (Shakespeare), 312
Richardson, Henry Hobson, 366, 442
Ricord, Philippe, 105
Rigault, Raoul, 309, 313–14
Archbishop Darboy arrested by, 311–12
death of, 322
Lillie Moulton’s interview with, 310–11
Right Bank, 45
Rives, William C., 94, 201, 205
Robinson, Theodore, 335, 415
Robinson Crusoe (Defoe), 241
Rocher de Cancale, 52
Rocky Mountains, The (Bierstadt), 249
Roderick Hudson (James), 332
Rodin, Auguste, 449