Things seen in Paris [antikvár]

Things Seen in ParisCHAPTER Ithe story of parisThe Founders of ParisThe Growth of the City by the SeineDramatic Happenings in its HistoryThe Massacre of St. BartholomewThe EevolutionThe Siege of ParisThe CommuneParis of To-day.PARIS is one of the most ancient as well as most modern of the cities of Europe. The date of the first settlement made upon islands amid the marshes, which in those ancient times covered a considerable part of the land now occupied by the present-day city, is lost in the mists of antiquity. One has to go back as far as the days of Julius Caesar for the first historical mention of a settlement on the banks of the Seine. The great Roman conqueror in his account of the subjection of Gaul in 53 b.c. mentions a tribe called the Párisii, who ultimately gave their name to the capital of France, inhabiting an island in the Seine which is approximately the île de la Cité of to-day. The chief town of the Párisii became known as Lutetia. The Romans established a colony here, and extended it gradually to the south bank of the river where some Roman remains of considerable importance, including the Arenes de Lutece, going back undoubtedly to the third century, and situated near the Jardin des Plantes, are still traceable. The arena has been in recent times carefully restored.The famous Julian the Apostate was Governor of this9