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Contents Acknowledgments 00 Introduction 00 Part I. From Lucotecia to Paris (300 b.c.-a.d. 987) 1. Geographical Situation of Paris 00 2. Gallic Time 00 The Celts 00 Lucotecia 00 Fortifications of Lucotecia 00 The Roman Conquest 00 3. Roman Rule 00 Romanization and Urbanization 00 Lutetia 00 Fortifications of the Ile de la Cit¿ 00 Christianization 00 4. The End of the Roman Empire 00 The Barbarian Invasions 00 The Huns 00 Lutetia During the Invasions 00 5. The Merovingian Period 00 Clovis 00 Paris in Merovingian Times 00 6. The Carolingian Era 00 The Carolingian Dynasty 00 Charlemagne 00 The Vikings 00 7. The Capetians 00 Hugues Capet 00 The Feudal System 00 A Wall Around Paris in the 10th Century? 00 Part II. Medieval Period (987-1512) 8. The Growth of France 00 The First Capetian Kings 00 Emancipation of Towns 00 9. Growth of Paris 00 The Cit¿ Island 00 The University 00 The Ville 00 10. Capetians versus Plantagenets 00 Louis VII 00 Philippe II Auguste 00 11. The Enceinte of Philippe Auguste 00 The First Medieval Enceinte 00 The Enceinte: Too Large? 00 Financing 00 Evolution of Urban Fortification 00 Wall 00 Towers 00 Gates 00 Defense by the Seine 00 Grand Ch¿telet and Petit Ch¿telet 00 12. The Louvre 00 13. The Temple 00 14. Paris at the Time of Saint Louis and Philippe the Fair 00 Louis VIII and Louis IX 00 French Predominance 00 Philippe IV the Fair 00 The Royal Palace and the Conciergerie 00 15. The First Part of the Hundred Years' War (1337-1414) 00 Main Cause of the War 00 Jean II Le Bon 00 Charles V 00 16. The Enceinte of Charles V 00 The Second Medieval Enceinte 00 Trac¿ of Charles V's Enceinte 00 Walls, Towers and Ditches 00 Gatehouses 00 Barbican 00 17. The Castle of Vincennes 00 A New Royal Residence 00 The Enceinte 00 The Keep 00 Vincennes Castle Up Until Today 00 18. The Bastille 00 H¿tel Saint Pol and Palace of Tournelles 00 A Gatehouse Becomes a Castle 00 Description of the Bastille 00 State Prison 00 July 14, 1789 00 19. Private Medieval Fortifications 00 Paris: an Unhealthy and Unsafe City 00 Private Fortifications 00 H¿tel de Clisson 00 H¿tel de Sens 00 H¿tel de Cluny 00 Saint Genevi¿ve Abbey 00 Saint Antoine Abbey 00 Convent of Celestins 00 Abbey of Saint-Germain-des Pr¿s 00 Saint-Martin-des-Champs Priory 00 20. The Second Part of the Hundred Years' War (1415-1453) 00 Civil and Foreign Wars 00 Jeanne d'Arc 00 The End of the War 00 21. Firearms 00 Gunpowder 00 Early Guns 00 Siege Artillery 00 Mine 00 Improvement of Artillery 00 Handguns 00 Warfare with Fire Weapons 00 22. Transitional Fortification 00 A Gradual Problem 00 Rampart 00 Embrasure 00 Artillery Emplacements 00 Makeshifts 00 23. Paris After the Hundred Years' War 00 Louis XI 00 Citadels and Forts 00 Transitional Fortification in Paris 00 24. The End of the Middle Ages 00 Wars in Italy 00 The Renaissance 00 Part III. Bastioned Fortifications (1512-1874) 25. Italian Bastioned Fortification 00 Early Italian Theorists 00 Italian Bastioned Front 00 Description of the Italian Bastioned Fortification 00 Italian Predominance 00 Old Dutch and French Bastioned Systems 00 26. The Religious Wars 00 The Crisis of the Catholic Church 00 From Henri II to Henri IV 00 27. Modernization of the Parisian Defenses (1512-1562) 00 A Chaotic Development 00 The "Foss¿s Jaunes" Bastioned Enceinte (1566-1633) 00 Louis XIII 00 28. Louis XIV's Reign (1661-1715) 00 The Fronde Revolt 00 The Sun King 00 Paris at the Time of Louis XIV 00 The H¿tel des Invalides 00 Vauban's "Pr¿ Carr¿" 00 Vauban's Project for Paris 00 French Border Fortifications 00 Vauban's Legacy 00 The End of the Sun King 00 29. Paris at the Time of Louis XV (1715-1774) 00 30. Cormontaigne and Montalembert 00 Cormontaigne 00 Montalembert 00 Montalembert's Influence 00 31. The Enceinte of the "Fermiers G¿n¿raux" 00 A Fiscal Barrier 00 The Wall 00 The Tollhouses 00 32. The French Revolution of 1789 00 The Storming of the Bastille 00 The First French Republic 00 33. Napol¿on I and the First Empire 00 Napol¿on Bonaparte 00 Napol¿on I, Emperor of the French People 00 Zenith and Decline 00 Napoleonic Warfare 00 Napoleonic Fortifications 00 34. Paris at the Time of Revolution, Consulat and Empire 00 Revolutionary Ambitions 00 Prestige Buildings 00 Public Infrastructures 00 Defenses of Paris in 1814 and 1815 00 35. Monarchic Restoration 1815-1848 00 Louis XVIII and Charles X 00 Louis-Philippe 00 36. Thiers's Fortifications (1841-1845) 00 The Necessity for a New Enceinte 00 Dode de la Brunerie's Design 00 The Construction of the Fortifications 00 The Bastioned Enceinte 00 Bastions, Ditch and Counterscarp 00 Gates 00 Division of the Bastioned Enceinte 00 Detached Forts and Redoubts 00 Royal Citadels 00 Description of the Forts 00 Armament 00 37. Paris Transformed by Baron Georges Hausmann and Napol¿on III 00 Napol¿on III 00 The Industrial Revolution 00 A New Face for Paris 00 38. The Franco-Prussian War and the Commune (1870-1871) 00 Tension between France and Germany 00 Rifled Weapons 00 The Fall of Napol¿on III 00 The Siege of Paris (1870) 00 The Commune (1871) 00 Part IV. Modern Fortifications (1874-1944) 39. New Weapons of War 00 Weapon industry 00 Artillery 00 Rifles 00 Machine Gun 00 Railway 00 40. New Systems of Fortification 00 German Developments 00 Belgium and the Netherlands 00 General S¿r¿ de Rivi¿res's Forts 00 41. The Second Parisian Ring of Polygonal Forts 00 42. Description of a Polygonal Fort 00 General Outline 00 Ditch and Caponier 00 Covered Way and Glacis 00 Gatehouse 00 Accommodation 00 Powderhouse 00 Artillery Emplacements 00 Infantry Positions 00 R¿duit 00 Redoubts and Batteries 00 43. The Crisis of the 1880s 00 New Projectiles 00 Concrete Protection 00 Counterscarp Coffer 00 Armored Turret 00 Dessus and Dessous 00 A New Era 00 44. Paris at the Close of the 19th Century 00 World Exhibition Fairs 00 La Belle Epoque 00 A Fragile Peace 00 45. The First World War (1914-1918) 00 The Early Stage of the War 00 Trench Warfare 00 The Bombardment of Paris in 1918 00 46. The Maginot Line 00 Demolition of the Thiers Enceinte 00 New Plans for the Defense Of France 00 Composition of the Maginot Line 00 The Maginot Line Myth 00 47. The Chauvineau Line 00 Conception of the Chauvineau Line 00 Composition of the Chauvineau Line 00 The Construction of the Chauvineau Line 00 The Battle of France May-June 1940 00 48. Occupation and Liberation 1940-1944 00 Vichy 00 German Bunkers in Paris 00 The Liberation of Paris (August 1944) 00 Appendix: Vestiges of the Parisian Fortifications 00 Glossary 00 Bibliography 00 Index 00
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Fortification -- France -- Paris -- History.