PARIS
FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD TO THE PRESENT DAY
VOLUME II
TYPES OF PARISIAN WORKMEN
PHOTOGRAVURE, AFTER THE PAINTING BY N. GŒNEUTTE
IL FLOTTE SANS ÊTRE SUBMERGÉ
PARIS
FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD TO THE PRESENT DAY
VOLUME II
PHILADELPHIA
GEORGE BARRIE & SON, PUBLISHERS
COPYRIGHT, 1899, BY GEORGE BARRIE & SON
CONTENTS
VOLUME II
CHAPTER IV
THE ADMINISTRATION, NATIONAL AND MUNICIPAL
LIFE IN THE CASERNE: LATE FOR RECALL. From a drawing, incolors, by George Scott.
THE ADMINISTRATION,
NATIONAL AND MUNICIPAL
INITIAL FROM A DESIGN BY M. LELOIR.
NE of the grandest institutions of ancient France was the Parlement deParis, and its history and that of the prévôts would constitute ahistory of the capital, while that of the fitful and accidentalconvocations of the États Généraux would in nowise illustrate that ofthe nation. Our facilities for acquiring a knowledge of the functionsand methods of procedure of the Parlement have been greatly increased bythe numerous critical historical works which have appeared within thelast few years, amongst which that of M. Felix Aubert, which covers thelong period between its origin, in 1250, and the reign of François I,when it was "the instrument par excellence of the national unity andpacification," is, perhaps, the most valuable. The establishment of themagistrature prévôtale, replacing that of the Vicomte de Paris, hasbeen credited to Hugues Capet, but the first official record appears tobe a charter given in favor of the monks o