Île de France (fireboat), 328, 337
Île de la Cité, 13, 14, 18, 42, 66, 74, 78, 89, 92, 93, 94, 126, 138, 139, 154, 172, 182, 192, 236, 296
in daguerreotypes, 191
painting by Matisse of, 251
Paris centered around, map from 1611, 234
Pont Neuf and enlarged surface of, 84
Pont Neuf built across, 83
as power center on the Seine, 79
size and history of, 238–39
Île de la Jatte:
Fish Festival on the Seine, 118
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte set on, 240–41 Île de la Loge, 238
Île de Puteaux, 238
Île de Quatre Ages, 238
Île des Cygnes, 243, 244
Île des Impressionistes, 108
Île des Ravageurs, animal cemetery on, 238
Île du Courant, 238
Île du Patriarche, joined to Île de la Cité, by Pont Neuf, 84
Île du Platais, 190, 191, 241
Île Lacroix, 260, 265
Île Launy, 238
Île Louviers, 238, 243
Île Notre-Dame, 239
Île Olive, 243
Île Paradis, 238
Île Robinson, 238
Île Saint-Denis, 243
as site for Paris Summer Olympic Village (2024), 244
Île Saint-Etienne, 67, 238
Île Saint-Germain, 244
Île Saint-Louis, 12, 19, 78, 90, 100, 125, 136, 142, 176, 182, 224, 234, 236, 238, 243
creation of, 239
history of, 239–40
rue des Deux Ponts, 14
Îles d’Harcourt, 238
Île Seguin:
La Seine Musicale on, 178, 181, 235
rich history of, 236
Île Saint-Etienne, 67
Île Surgès, 238
Il Tabarro (The Cloak) (Puccini), 184–86
Impression, soleil levant (Monet), 250
Impressionism:
birth of, 249, 250
Kodak cameras and, 192
works painted on Île de la Jatte, 240–41
Impressionists, 108, 248–53, 255, 283, 294, 300, 321. see also individual artists
Inception (film), 175
infection control, River Brigade and, 216
Inquest on Bouvet (Simenon), 121
INRAP. see Institute National de Recherches Archéologiques Préventives (INRAP)
In Search of Lost Time (Proust), 16, 264
Institut de France, 14, 15, 93, 122
Institute National de Recherches Archéologiques Préventives (INRAP), 79
Insula, 237
International Olympic Committee, 98
Intouchables, The (film), 175
Irma la Douce (film), 176
Islamic State terrorist attack (2015), Fluctuat nec mergitur as slogan of resistance in wake of, 80
island-hopping, on the Seine, 235, 237–44. see also individual islands
Is Paris Burning? (Collins and Lapierre), 290
Is Paris Burning? (film), 290
Italian Historical Society of America, 267
Ivens, Joris, 174
Ivry-sur-Seine, 67
Jako (two-seater row boat), 113
Jandard, Alexis, 98
Janin, Jules, 200
Jean, Philippe, 281, 282, 283
Jefferson, Thomas, 201
Jestaz, Juliette, 179, 180
Jeunet, Jean-Pierre, 254
Joan of Arc, 46, 260–62, 261, 263, 265, 308, 321, 333
Joan of Arc Church, 262
Johnson, Don, 213
Joinville-le-Pont, 337
Jongkind, Johan, 249
Jouffroy, François, 31
journalism, contemporary politics and view of, 321–22
Jousse, François, 124–27
jousting tournaments, 109
Joyce, James, 6, 132
Joyen-Conseil, Marie-Hélène, 256, 257
“Joy of Life” (SS Joie de Vivre), cruise on the Seine, 317–25, 322
Jules and Jim (film), 228
Julian the Apostate:
emperor of Rome, 71, 79
on his love for Lutetia, 78
Julie, cruise mate aboard SS Joie de Vivre, 322–23, 324, 325
Juliobona, 295, 296
Julius Caesar, 25, 73, 77, 153
Jundi, Wang, 192
Kapoor, Anish, 124
kayak flotilla, 2024 Summer Olympics campaign and, 98, 99
Keaton, Diane, 122, 123
Kelly, Ellsworth, 249
Kelly, Gene, 167, 168
Kelly, Grace, 132
Kering, 237
Khondji, Darius, light of the Seine captured by, 170–73
photograph of the Seine taken by, 2 Kingston Trio, 183
Kirby, Vanessa, 169
Kitt, Eartha, 183
Klapisch, Cédric, 90, 167
Kline, Kevin, 176
Kodak cameras, 192
Krebs, Sophie, 94, 95
La Bohème (Puccini), 186
Labro, Philippe:
on Rive droite, rive gauche, 13
on the Seine, 12–13
La Champagne Pouilleuse, poverty in, 56
Laclos, Eric de, 33
La Dauphine:
miniature model of, 258, 267
Verrazzano explores New World in, 266
Lady Mary (freighter), 276
Lagerfeld, Karl, 206, 207, 324
La Grenouillère (“The Froggery”), 107, 113–14, 134–35
“Trouville-sur-Seine,” 134
“La Grenouillère” (Poulenc), 1939 arrangement of, 187
La Houppelande (Gold), 184
La La Land (film), 97, 167, 168
La Maison Fournaise:
founder of, 110
Impressionists at, 108
Luncheon of the Boating Party painted at, 246, 253, 254
Renoir’s love of, 135, 254
La Marseillaise, 20, 30, 98
lampposts:
on Pont Alexandre III, 126
during 2016 flood, 147
L’an 2440 (Mercier), 200
Lang, Kirsty, 199
Lapierre, Dominique, 290
La queste del Saint Graal (Chrétien de Troyes), 62
L’A rcadie (Bernardin de Saint-Pierre), 41, 46–48
Lartigue, Jacques, 194
La Salle, Robert de, 268–69
“La Seine” (song), 3, 9, 133, 179, 180, 182, 183
La Seine a rencontré Paris (film), 174–75
La Seine à Vélo (The Seine by Bike), 311
La Seine et ses bords (Nodier), 48–49
La Seine: Mémoire d’un fleuve, 116
La Seine Musicale, 181, 237
night-time image of, 178
opening of, 235
L’ Assommoir (Zola), 190
L’ Atalante (film), 153, 160
L’Atelier Lorenzi, masks of L’Inconnue de la Seine at, 225–26
L’ Atlantique (ocean liner), 174
Laurencin, Marie, 182
La vie d’un fleuve (documentary film), 174
law enforcement. see Brigade Fluviale (river police) lead, water pollution and, 104
Le Bing: Song Hits of Paris, 183
Le Blond-Zola, Martine, 241
Le Cap de la Héve, 48
Le Crayon (Rouen), 255
Lefebvre, Frédéric, 298, 304
Le Figaro, 93, 169
Left Bank of the Seine in Paris, 5, 13, 14, 15, 76, 78, 81, 89, 90, 94, 122, 139, 169, 195, 203, 236, 239, 240, 243, 255, 312, 323, 335
Pont Neuf and, 83
reinvention initiatives and, 310
see also Right Bank of the Seine; Seine, the
Le Havre, 20, 24, 48, 155, 164, 249, 275, 276, 285, 295, 304
Communist mayors of, 302
driving to Honfleur from, 297–98
end of the Seine and, 24, 293
five hundredth anniversary celebration in, 292, 298, 302–3
as France
’s most important seaport, 293
leveled by Allied bombings, 294
liberation of, 301
Monet in, 250, 253, 300
modern sculpture on beach in, 292
nickname for, 294
Reinvent the Seine competition sponsored by, 45, 46, 299, 307
the Seine and southern flank of, 299
site chosen for, 301
Lelouch, Claude, 175, 176, 324
Lemmon, Jack, 176
Lemonnier, Luc, 299, 300
Le nouveau Paris (Mercier), 203
Le Parisien, 138
Le petit-pont (Meryon), 233
Lépine, Louis, 214
“Le Pont Mirabeau” (Apollinaire), 93, 182, 224
Le Pont-Neuf, la nuit (Marquet), 93–94
Leroy, Louis, 250
Les Andelys, 284, 301
Lesage, Alain-René, 19
Le Savoyard, 187
Les Bains des Docks, Le Havre, 303
Les Berges, 310
“Les Feux de Paris” (Aragon), 182
Lesgards, Annie, 108, 113
Les Misérables (Hugo), suicide of Javert in, 222, 230–31
Les Ponts de Paris, 207
Les rendez-vous de Paris (film), 170
“Les Ricochets” (song), 180
Les très riches heures du Duc de Berry, 248
L’été à Paris (Janin), 199–200
Le Volcan, Le Havre, 303
Le voyage en France (Duteurtre), 303–4
Léry-Poses, 110
Life magazine, 190
lifesaving personnel, River Brigade and, 211
lighting:
Paris and spending on, 122
Paris vs. Lyon schools of, 126
lights, Seine at night shimmering with, 121
Light II (floating house), 148
Lillebonne, 295
Gallo-Roman past of, 296
vestiges of Gallo-Roman amphitheater in, 296–97
L’Inconnue de la Seine (Walter), 226
Lindbergh, Charles, on seeing the Seine, 11
Live Stream, Nuit Blanche multimedia work, 124
locks, 15, 114, 142, 144, 238, 253, 320, 337
barges and transit through, 24, 117, 163, 174–75
taming of le mascaret and, 272
see also barges; canals
Lods, Jean, 174
Loire River, 19, 21, 59, 66, 159, 278
Loiret River, 21
Lonsdale, Michael, 290
Louis VII, king of France, 66
Louis IX (Saint Louis), 337
Louis XIII, king of France, 100, 239, 333, 334
Louis XIV, king of France, 67, 273, 334
love of swans, 243
Marly Machine built by, 114, 241–42, 242 marriage to Maria Theresa of Spain, 46, 85
swimming in the Seine, 100
Louis XV, king of France, 204, 236, 332
Louis XVI, king of France, 17, 204, 333
Louis XVIII, king of France, 85
Louis-Philippe, king of France, 92, 295
Louvre, the, 12, 13, 14, 15, 38, 87, 93, 95, 131, 147, 176, 187, 193, 196, 197, 231, 248, 290, 296
flood of 2016 and, 141
Flore Pavilion of, 122
Love in the Afternoon (film), 173–74
“Love Is Here to Stay” (Gershwin & Gershwin), 167
lovers, the Seine and, 131–33, 136–39
lovers’ locks:
keys to, found in the Seine, 217
Paris City Hall crackdown on, 12
on the Pont des Arts and Pont Neuf, 88, 88–89
Lumière brothers, panoramic technique used by, 170
Luncheon of the Boating Party (Renoir), 108, 134–35, 187, 246, 253–55
Lutetia (Lutèce), 74, 79, 153, 296
Julian the Apostate’s love for, 71, 78
the Nautes of, 76
the Seine and the making of, 77
luxury cruise liners, on the Seine, 317–25, 322
Lyon school of lighting, structures along the Seine and, 126
Macron, Emmanuel, 331
Madame (rowboat), 111
Madame Bovary (Flaubert), 265, 287
Mallarmé, Stéphane, 59
Man and a Woman, A (film), 324
Mandela, Nelson, bridges named after, 67
Manet, Édouard, 252
manners and mannerisms, French, 4
Man Ray, 225
marais (swamp), 144
Marais (Paris neighborhood), 57, 72, 136, 144
Marcilly-sur-Seine, 24, 25, 63, 65
Marianne, 46
Maria Theresa of Spain, marriage to Louis XIV, 46, 85
Marie, Christophe, 92
Marie-Amélie, wife of Louis-Philippe, king of France, 295
Marie-Antoinette, queen of France:
imprisonment of, 311
and Notre-Dame, 333
Seine river travel enjoyed by, 66
marinas, 110
Marino, Laura, 98
Maritime, Fluvial, and Harbor Museum, Rouen, 267–68
Marly Machine, 114
built by Louis XIV, 241–42
remnants of, on island at Bougival, 242
Marne, battle of, 67
Marne River, 21, 34, 48, 67, 102, 187, 337
Sequana myth and, 48
Marne Valley, Champagne production in, 51, 52
Marquet, Albert, 10, 93, 94, 95, 123, 300
Marquis, Philippe, 71, 74–75
Married Man, The (White), 240
Marshall, E. G., 290
Martens, Frédéric, 192
Martin, Dean, 183
Martin, Steve, 176
“Martyrs of the Deportation” memorial, behind Notre-Dame, 239
mascaret, le (tidal bore):
appearing at Caudebec-en-Caux, 270, 271, 279
taming of, 272, 278
Masterpiece, The (Zola), 133
Matisse, Henri, 10, 123, 251
Maupassant, Guy de, 107, 111, 113, 134, 148, 241, 265, 304
Mauriac, François, 202
McCrea, Joel, 285
McQuarrie, Christopher, 170
Médan, Zola’s house and estate in, 190, 191, 241
Medici, Catherine de’, 226
Melun, 66, 67, 153
Mercier, Louis-Sébastien, 83, 102, 200, 203
Meryon, Charles, 233
Miami Vice (television series), 213
Midnight in Paris (film), 170, 171, 173
Milon (seventh-century hermit), 283
Ministry of Culture, 71
Ministry of Health, 104
Ministry of the Interior, 214
Misopogon (Emperor Julian), 71, 78
Missika, Jean-Louis, 307, 308
Mission Impossible—Fallout (film), 169, 170
Mississippi River, 5, 9, 25, 180, 268
Mitterrand, François, 154, 202, 293, 334
monasteries, Norman, 281–83
Monet, Claude, 10, 134, 241, 253, 300
Proust on “enchanted essence” of paintings by, 244
residence in Giverny, 250–51
on Rouen Cathedral, 264
the Seine as studio for, 247, 249–50, 321
Monnaie de Paris (the French Mint), 13, 336
Montand, Yves, 290
Montereau-Fault-Yonne, 20, 25, 65
Mont-Joli, viewing Seine estuary from, 295
Mont Lassois plateau, Celtic fortress town beneath, 61
Montmartre, 73, 95, 171, 175, 199, 216
Moreau, Jeanne, 228
Morisot, Berthe, 252
Morning on the Seine (Monet), 252
Morvan Mountains, 34
Moulin de Pierre at Hauville, Normandy, 280, 284
Moveable Feast, A (Hemingway), 7, 115
mud plugs, 300
Municipal Council of Paris, 31
Musée-Aquarium de la Seine, 118
Musée Archéologique de Dijon, 42, 44, 46
ex-votos (votive offerings) collection in, 45
Sequana statue in, 40, 4
1–43, 75
Musée Carnavalet, 205, 248
extensive collections of, 74
pirogues in, 72–74, 75
Musée d’Art Moderne André Malraux, 300
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 6, 94
Musée de la Batellerie (Museum of Barge Navigation), 161–62
Musée des Antiquités, Rouen, 262–63
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen, 255
Musée d’Orsay, 117, 122, 131, 143, 191, 210, 300, 310
Musée du quai Branly, 80
MuséoSeine, 272, 275, 276, 279
Mutarelli, Vincenzo, 296, 297
Nabokov, Vladimir, 225
Nana (Zola’s boat), 241
Nanterre, archaeological discovery at, 79
Napoléon Bonaparte, emperor of France, 72, 92, 102, 217, 268, 277, 299
crowns himself emperor at Notre-Dame, 333
public works projects of, 236, 237
on Seine as “Main Street” of France, 20
Seine meanders through life of, 19–21, 22
tomb in the Hôtel des Invalides, 21, 289
Troyes port project and, 62–63
Napoléon III, emperor of France, 5, 65, 126, 134
incorporates source of the Seine into Paris, 30–31
nymph in grotto sculpture created during reign of, 31, 31–32
Parisian water supply and sewer networks and, 102
rowing boat built by, 110
National Geographic Institute, 22
Nautes, the:
celebrated in Paris, 76, 77
Paris’s coat of arms and tribute paid to, 79–80
Nautilus submarine, Robert Fulton and building of, 268
Navarro, Nicolas, 285, 286, 288
Nazi Occupation of Paris, 227, 239, 289–90, 333
Nègre, Charles, 192
Neptune, 41, 47, 48
Nerval, Gérard de, 202
Neva River, 92
Newsweek magazine, 119, 142, 324
Chicago bureau, 4
Paris bureau, 3–5
New York, Verrazzano’s discovery of, 266, 267
New York City Fire Department, 9/11 and, 332
New York Times, 143, 170, 193, 272, 320, 321
Niagara Falls, 5, 127–28, 224
Niagara River, 5, 127, 128, 268, 269
Nicholas II, czar of Russia, 90
Nicholson, Jack, 122, 123
Niemeyer, Oscar, 303
Niépce, Joseph Nicéphore, 191
nighttime:
in Paris, 120, 121–28
reinvention of the Seine, 311–12
on the Seine, 319, 320, 323–25
Nile River, 10, 17
Nin, Anaïs, 16
Niquet, Laurent, 116–17
“Nocturne Parisien” (Verlaine), 208
Nodier, Charles, 48
Nogent-sur-Seine, 24, 65
Nolan, Christopher, 175
Nonda, Trojan horse created by, 86
Nordling, Raoul, 291
Normandy, 134, 153, 228, 262, 265, 271, 296, 304, 321
bocages normands in, 284
course of the Seine across, 24
fruit tree trail in, 285
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