The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris (120 page)

Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban,
90–91
,
96–97
,
332

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