Read The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris Online
Authors: David Mccullough
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Musée d’Histoire Naturelle,
117
Napoleon I, Emperor of France,
11
,
43
,
44
,
112
,
120
,
142
,
181
,
188
,
236
,
317
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
dissolution of,
204
government assault on,
319–20
onset of Paris Commune and,
306–7
National Park Service, U.S.,
455
Nativist movement,
149–50
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 Infirmary and College for Women,
194
New York Times
,
198
,
204
,
219
,
232
,
247–48
,
251
,
293
,
384
,
403
,
415
,
419
,
454
New York University,
149
Niagara Falls
(Church),
249
Nicholas I, Czar of Russia,
221
Nichols, Rose,
438–39
Niépce, Joseph-Nicéphore,
158
Notions of the Americans
(Cooper),
92
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
“Old Ironsides” (Holmes),
6
Olympia
(Manet),
399
omnibuses,
31–32
Ontario (horse),
436
opera,
48–51
at the Théâtre Italien,
48–49
Opéra Comique,
226
Osler, William,
132
Ossoli, Angelo,
190
Otello
(Verdi),
48
Otis, Harrison Gray,
9
Otis Elevator Company,
417
Owen, Clara Belle,
411–12
Pacific
(brig),
15
Paget, Violet,
see
Lee, Vernon
Pailleron, Édouard,
390
Paine, Thomas,
211
Palace of the Popes,
368
Palais de l’Élysée,
188
Palais des Beaux-Arts,
415
Palais des Machines,
415
Palazzo Colonna,
64
“Panama Bubble,”
414
Panama Canal Company,
414
Panini, Giovanni Paolo,
63
Parc Monceau,
208
Parc Neuilly,
416
Paris:
Americans and economy of,
334
American students in,
119–23
American women in,
188–89
“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
first impressions of,
25–29
gambling in,
53
glass material in,
34–35
Grant’s visit to,
356
illegitimate children in,
55–56
July 4, 1832, celebration in,
94–95
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
performing arts in,
48–51
the poor in,
45
Prussian siege of,
see
Paris, siege of
restaurants and cafés of,
52–53
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
see also specific landmarks, sections, and streets
aftermath of,
304
American sympathy for,
293
balloon mail in,
280
disease and,
289
exchanges of correspondence in,
279–80
expulsion of German population in,
270–72