The Stones of Paris in History and Letters (Vol. 1-2)

The Stones of Paris in History and Letters is a two volume study on the city of Paris written by Benjamin Ellis Martin and Charlotte M. Martin. Through the numerous chapters regarding some of the most famous French authors and artists the Martins portray the painting of the French capital going deeper in its soul and showing something more than a city of shows or a huge bazaar.Table of Contents:Volume 1:Three Time-worn StaircasesThe Scholars' Quarter of the Middle AgesMolière and his FriendsFrom Voltaire to BeaumarchaisThe Paris of the RevolutionVolume 2:The Southern Bank in the Nineteenth CenturyThe Paris of Honoré de BalzacThe Paris of Alexandre DumasThe Paris of Victor HugoThe Making of the MaraisThe Women of the Marais Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of The Stones of Paris in History and Letters, Volume I (of 2). It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print.

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The student of history can find no more suggestive relics of mediæval Paris than the still existing towers 2 and fragments of the wall of Philippe-Auguste, which shall be shown to him; for us, these stones must be made to speak, not so essentially of their mighty builder as of the common people, who moved about within that enclosure and gave it character. ...This aqueduct started at the point where later was built the village of Arceuil—named from the mediæval, or late, Latin Arculi—where was quarried the best stone that builded old Paris; and curved with the valley of the Bièvre like a huge railway viaduct, leaving that stream when it bent in its course to the Seine near the Salpêtrière, 22 and entering the town along the easterly line of Rue Saint-Jacques, and so straight away to the baths.