Machine generated contents note: pt. One The Middle Ages: Cathedrals and Fortresses -- 1.Saint-Denis: The Monarchy and the Gothic Cathedral -- 2.Laon: Early Gothic -- 3.Chartres: The High Gothic Cathedral at Chartres -- 4.The Coronation Ceremony at the Cathedral of Reims -- 5.The Louvre: A Late-Twelfth-Century Fortress -- 6.Angers: Blanche of Castile's Early-Thirteenth-Century Fortress -- 7.Sainte-Chapelle in Paris -- 8.Vincennes: A Fortress of the Hundred Years War -- 9.Joan of Arc: 1429 and the End of the Hundred Years War at Orleans -- 10.Rouen: Joan of Arc and Monet -- pt. Two The Renaissance -- Cities and Castles -- 11.Tours: The Rebirth of Cities After the Hundred Years War -- 12.Blois: A Sixteenth-Century Renaissance Chateau -- 13.Francis I and the Renaissance at Fontainebleau -- 14.Henry IV in Paris: The Hotel de Sens, the Place des Vosges, and the Luxembourg Gardens -- 15.The Siege of La Rochelle and the End of the Reformation in France -- pt. III The Age of Louis XIV --

Contents note continued: Seventeenth-Century France -- 16.Magical Vaux-le-Vicomte -- 17.Versailles -- 18.The Secret Castle of Maintenon -- pt. IV The Coming of the French Revolution -- Paris in the Eighteenth Century -- 19.Parisian Sights: Palais-Royal, Hotel Carnavalet, Hotel de Soubise, Ecole Militaire, the Pantheon, Place de la Concorde -- 20.The Petit Trianon of Madame de Pompadour and Marie-Antoinette -- 21.The Conciergerie -- pt. V The Empire and Restoration -- The Bourgeois Century -- 22.Napoleon as Consul at Malmaison -- 23.Napoleon at Compiegne -- 24.The Restoration (1815--1848) at Chantilly -- Coda: My Favorite Emperor and Me.