Seine Valley in, 280, 284, 285
painters and, 247–48, 249, 250, 255, 257
Vikings in, 263
World War II in, 285, 286, 287–88
Notre-Dame Cathedral, 6, 12, 15, 16, 122, 168, 169, 171, 172–73, 182, 184, 208, 219, 224, 264
annual number of visitors to, 239, 331
in background of Le petit-pont (Meryon), 233
in background of Studio, Quai Saint-Michel (Matisse), 251
built on Île de la Cité, 239
as point zéro (center of France), official recognition of, 332
as center of Paris, 30
embracing historical complexity of, 335
in film, 171
framed by stone underpass of Pont Saint-Michel, 2
Jousse and redesigned lighting of, 125
many transformations of, 334–35
momentous events of history set in, 333–34
parvis of, 332, 333, 334, 335, 336
the Seine and creation of, 337–38
site of, as holy place since antiquity, 333
Notre-Dame Cathedral, fire at (2019), 329–32, 335, 336–37, 338–39
early signs of, 330–31
Paris firefighters help in extinguishing, 328, 329–30, 331–32, 336–37, 338
restoration planning, in aftermath of, 335
spire burns and falls, 331, 335
surviving structure and artifacts of, 337
Notre-Dame Church, Abbey of Jumièges, 282
Notre-Dame de Caudebec-en-Caux church, 273–74
Notsa (barge), 156
Nouvel, Jean, 237, 303
Nozal, Alexandre, 241
NUBA (nightclub), 309
Nuit Blanche:
Guo-Qiang’s One Night Stand during, 130, 131–33
spending on and installations for, 123–24
“Nymph of the Seine to the Queen, The” (Racine), 46
Off (floating hotel), 135
Office, The, 241
Ohio River, 25
Oise River, 154
Sequana myth and, 48
Olive, Sébastien Jean Alexandre, 243
“Ol’ Man River” (Show Boat), 5, 180
One Night Stand (Cai Guo-Qiang), 130, 131–33
Ophüls, Max, 225
Our Lady of Lourdes, 36, 46, 75, 308
“Our Last Summer” (song), 181
Overstreet, Richard, 194, 195, 248
pacu, in the Seine, 119
painting the Seine, 94, 101, 108, 113, 134–35, 187, 193, 205, 208, 240–41, 246, 247–48, 249–57, 300, 321
Palais des Tuileries, 14
Panorama of the Paris Exposition from the Seine (Edison), 170
Panorama XXL, Rouen, 265
Papon, Maurice, 226, 227
Paradis, Vanessa, 182
Parc de Bercy, at night, 129
Paris, 164
ancient evidence of origins of, 71–75
Bercy neighborhood renewal project, 71
bouquinistes as literary gatekeepers of, 201–2, 204
cholera epidemic of 1832 in, 102
cinema and, 169–70, 173
coat of arms, 70, 77, 79, 80–81, 92, 338
cultivating self-discovery and a new life in, 3–5, 7, 325
debate over origin of, 79
diving event for Summer Olympics 2024 bid in, 96, 97–98
fariy-tale endings in, 169
finding the Seine’s paths to, 60, 61, 63–68
Fiorini’s map depicting (1550), 18
flooding of Seine, 73, 104, 109, 144–45, 146–47
harmony between the Seine and, 15
Hitler’s plan to destroy, 289–91
houseboat purchases in, 150
with illuminated bridges and Eiffel Tower, 82, 124–27
incorporating source of the Seine into city of, 30–32
Julian the Apostate’s love for, 71, 78–79
liberation of, 1944, 286, 288, 290, 333
Marché Serpette in the flea market of, 81
map, 1611, depicting city of, 234
motto of, 70, 79–81, 338
naming of, history behind, 79
the Nautes as emblematic characters of, 76–77, 79–80
Nazi Occupation of, 289–91
at night, 82, 120, 121–28
in 1910, 140, 182
number of main bridges in, 84, 91
photography in, cradle of, 191
Pont Neuf as oldest bridge in, 84
Reinvent the Seine competition sponsored by, 45, 46, 307–8
Seine and finding highway to, 11, 19, 288–89
Seine’s east-to-west arc through, 14
sign indicating source of the Seine belongs to, 28, 30
songs inspired by the Seine in, 180–87
tribute to the Nautes and coat of arms of, 76, 79–80
in 2016, 34, 141–42, 143
Paris (Russell), 206
Paris City Hall, 169
bouquinistes paperwork, 204
Cai’s work commissioned by, 131–32
carless Seine initiative, 310
eco-friendly Seine campaign, 117
flood of 2016 and, 141
Les Ponts de Paris published by, 207
Nuit Blanche and, 123
Paris Plages ruling, 137–38
place de Grève, former name of square in front of, 87
2024 Summer Olympics campaign and, 98
Paris Exposition Universelle of 1889, 318
Paris Exposition Universelle of 1900, 6, 90, 170, 194, 215
Paris Fashion Week, 324
Parisians, worldly-wise, seduced by the Seine, 12
Parisii tribe:
bridges built by, 89
coin with head of the god Apollo, 77, 78
life in Lutetia and, 77–78
the Nautes and, 76
Roman defeat of, 78
Paris Massacre of 1961, 226–27
Paris Plages (urban beaches), 95, 137–38, 177
Paris: Portrait of a City (Gautrand), 193
Paris qui dort (film), 168
Paris Salon, 250
Paris school of lighting, structures along the Seine and, 122, 124–27
Paris/Seine (Beaudouin), 10
Paris Transit Authority, the Seine and symbol of, 80
Paris When It Sizzles (film), 166
Passerelle Debilly, 6, 216
Passerelle Léopold-Sédar-Senghor, 92
Passerelle Simone de Beauvoir, 91, 92, 129
Paul et Virginie (Bernardin de Saint-Pierre), 46
Pavillon de l’Arsenal, 243
Pelletier, Lionel, 119
Pénet, Martin, 180
Perkins, Anthony, 290
Perret, Auguste, 302, 303
Perronet, Rodolphe, 90
Persephone (Prosperine), 47–48
Pessiot, Guy, 268, 269
Petit Palais, 92
Philibert, saint, 282
Philippe II, king of France, 14, 79–80, 101
Phillips, Duncan, 254
photographs, the Seine in, 188, 190–96
photography, birth of, 191
Picasso, Pablo, 225
Picturesque Tour of the Seine, from Paris to the Sea (Sauvan), 271, 320
Pillar of the Nautes, 76–77
Pinault, François-Henri, 237
Pingeot, Anne, 202
Pink Panther, The (2006 remake), 173, 176
Pirée (barge), 156
pirogues, discovered at Bercy, 72–73, 75
Piscine Deligny, 143
Pissarro, Camille, 252, 25
Pius X, pope, 333
place Dauphine, 134
place de la Concorde, pink granite obelisk at, 16–17, 144, 146
place du Carrousel, 176
place du Châtelet, 310
place du Trocadéro, 16, 120, 194
place du Vieux Marché, 261
Plateau of Langres (Burgundy), source of the Seine at, 28, 29, 33–34
plein air landscape artists, 249
> Plump, Alessandra Sciolino, lights up Niagara Falls, 127–28
Plump, Andrew, 81, 252, 272, 275, 314
finding the Seine’s path to Paris, 60, 61, 63–68
guided tour of source waters with Elaine, 30–38
Hermès scarf gift, 81
Plus, Gabriel, 338
podoscaphe, 109
pollution, 97, 98, 201, 214
combating with no-car areas, 310
fish kills and, 116
of the Seine, history behind, 101–3, 104
Pompidou, Georges, 240, 309, 310
Pompon-Rouge (barge), 255, 256
Pont Alexandre III, 6, 91, 98
Belle Époque lamppost on, 126
diving event for Paris’s bid for Summer Olympics 2024, 96, 97–98, 104
in films, 170, 171, 191
Lyon school of lighting and, 126
naming of, 90
photographs of, 195
physical characteristics of, 92
Pont au Change, Lyon school of lighting and, 126
Pont Charles de Gaulle, 92
Pont d’Arcole, 92
Pont d’Austerlitz, 91, 92, 126, 215
Pont de Bercy, 91
engraving of a tugboat near, 162
Lyon school of lighting and, 126
Pont de Bir-Hakeim, 90, 91, 196
in Inception, 175
Jousse’s illumination of, 127
military victory memorialized by, 92
Pont de la Concorde, 90, 91, 126, 175
Pont de l’Alma, 91, 92, 147, 216, 223, 325
lighting of, 126
stone statue of Zouave soldier at base of, 5, 6, 146, 221
Pont de la Tournelle, 14, 90, 91, 335–36
Pont Louis-Philippe, 92
Pont de Normandie, 297–98
Pont des Arts, 14, 91, 92–93, 124, 172, 324
lighting of, 126–27
lovers’ locks on, 88, 88
photographs of, 195–96
Pont des Invalides, 6, 91, 223
Pont de Sully, 12, 16, 91
Pont d’Iéna, 16, 91, 92, 194, 243
lighting of, 126
nighttime view of, from Eiffel Tower, 120
Pont du Carrousel, 91, 175, 324
Pont du Garigliano, 91, 126, 324
Pont Louis-Philippe, 91, 139
Pont Marie, 14, 19, 91, 98, 125
floodwaters and, 144
as lovers’ bridge, 138–39
Pont Mathilde (Pont Boieldieu), 261, 262
Pont Mirabeau, 91, 93, 224, 320, 324
Pont de la Tournelle, 14
Pont Neuf, 13, 14, 91, 94, 115, 134, 140, 172, 175, 192, 232
bouquinistes and, 204
bronze statue of Henri IV on, 85, 95
celebratory art installations on, 85–86
construction of, 83
in daguerreotypes, 191
flood of 1910 and, 145
Fournier’s 1862 history of, 202
inauguration of, 84
length of, 84
lovers’ locks on, 88–89
mascarons on, 84, 85, 217
Paris held together by, 83, 84
restorations and reconstructions of, 85
songs and, 181
Square du Vert-Galant and, 93
tour guides on, 86–87
vista from, 85
Pont Notre-Dame, 84, 91, 222
pontoon boats, as River Brigade’s central command, 215, 216
Pont Royal, 91, 122, 175, 231
flood of 1910 and, 140, 145
at night, 121–22
Pont Saint-Louis, 91, 93
Pont Saint-Michel, 91, 173, 219
Notre-Dame Cathedral framed by stone underpass of, 2
Paris Massacre of 1961 commemorative plaque, 227
Port de l’Arsenal, 309
boat village in, 110
houseboats in, 149
Port des Champs-Élysées, 143
Port des Saints-Pères, 172
Port de Troyes, 63
Porte Dauphine, 175
Porte d’Ivry, 213
Porte de Caudebec, 278
Potomac River, 133
Poulenc, Francis, 187
pousseurs (tugboats), 114
Preston, Robert, 135
Prévert, Jacques, 9, 174
Prosperine (Persephone), 47–48
prostitution, 135
Protestant Reformation, 203–4
Proust, Marcel, 16, 72, 201
on “enchanted essence” of Monet’s paintings, 244
on Monet’s genius, 264
Puccini, Giacomo, 184, 186
Quai André Citroën, 320
Quai d’Anjou, 240
Quai de Béthune, 240
“Quai de Béthune” (Aragon), 182
Quai de Conti, 81
Quai de Grenelle, 319
Quai de Javel, 309
Quai de la Tournelle, 90
Quai de l’Hôtel de Ville. 244
Quai des Célestins, 19
Quai des Enfers (Astier), 211
Quai des Grands-Augustins (Marquet), 300
Quai des Grands-Augustins, bookstalls along, 198, 199, 202, 208
Quai d’Orsay, 144
Quai François Mitterrand, 175
Quai Malaquais, 172
Quai Saint-Bernard, 215
Quai Saint-Michel, 251
Quartier Morland, 243
quays, 9, 15, 67, 133, 136, 154, 169, 172, 201–4, 206, 216, 218, 230, 232, 248, 260, 300, 330
construction and renovations of, 20, 22
in Gennevilliers, 164
songs and, 181, 208
see also bridges across the Seine
Quilhot, Damien, 336
Rabelais, François, 278
Racine, Jean, 46
Raft of the Medusa, The (Géricault), 113
Raguenet, Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste, 248
railroads:
barge commerce and, 22, 154
leisure travel and, 134, 249, 272
Rannaud, Monique, 286–87
Rashi (Jewish scholar):
commentary on Rosh Hashanah custom, 64
synagogue devoted to, in Troyes, 63
Ratatouille (animated film), 175
Ravaillac, François, 86, 87
Réard, Louis, 241
“Regarde-toi Paname” (song), 182
Regional Natural Park of the Meanders of the Norman Seine, 285
Reims:
crowning of Charles VII as king of France at, 261
vast vineyards around, 51
Reinhardt, Django, 10
Reinvent the Seine competition, 45–46, 299
goal of, 308
mission statement of, 307
rejects Sequana proposal by Elaine Sciolino, 307–8
winners announced for, 308
Renau, Arlette, 162, 163
life as a bargewoman, 156–59
mourning loss of her life on the water, 165
on online communication, 162
Renault, Louis, 236
Renault corporation, 236
Renoir, Auguste, 53, 108, 113, 134, 135, 187, 246, 252, 253, 254, 255
reservoirs, the Seine’s water level and, 103, 145
Resnais, Alain, 225
Restaurant Guy Savoy, 13
retirement communities, floating, 161
Rhine River, 25, 269, 321
Rhône River, 21, 53, 319
Ribaut, Jean-Claude, Champagne country tour with, 51, 52, 53–57
Richard the Lionheart, 263, 284, 321
Right Bank of the Seine in Paris, 5, 13, 14, 19, 71, 35, 73, 89, 90, 92, 122, 125, 129, 139, 146, 173, 195, 236, 237, 240, 243, 255, 265, 267, 269, 272, 311
bathers sunning themselves along, 12 expressway built on, 309–10
Fluctuart on, 315
the Marais on, 144
Paris Plages on, 137
Pont Neuf and, 83
Marcel Proust’s apartment on, 72
see also Left B
ank of the Seine; Seine, the
Rilke, Rainer Maria, 225
Ringer, Catherine, 303
Rin Tin Tin (“Wonder Dog”), 238
Riqueti, Honoré Gabriel, Count of Mirabeau, 93
Rive droite, rive gauche (film), 13
river barges. see barges
River Brigade. see Brigade Fluviale (river police) rivers:
“confluence” rule and, 25
emotional connections with, 5, 21
human settlements on, 77
songs and, 180
see also individual rivers
river transport, “green,” 163. see also barges; tugboats
rivières, people of the water and use of term, 10, 13
Rivières de France (Grandin), 26
Roastbeef (reconstructed sailboat), 111
Robert, David, 276
Robert, Régis, 169, 170
Robert the Devil, 277
Robin, Sylvie, 72, 73, 75, 76
Rodin, Auguste, 65, 176
Rohmer, Eric, 170
Rollo (Viking chief), 263
Romain, Bernard, 109
Roman Empire, City of Parisii as summer capital of, 79
Romans (ancient), 52, 67, 89, 116, 153, 238-39, 262, 296, 303, 333, 338
cult of Sequana and, 25, 36–37, 43–45
Gaul conquered by, 25, 31, 35, 79
Lutetia found by, 74, 76, 77
Parisii defeated by, 78
Ronis, Willy, 131, 193
Rosenblum, Mort, 142, 302
buys decommissioned British naval vessel, 142
experiencing flood of 2016 with, 143, 144, 145–47
on life on the river, 151
Paris bureau chief for the Associated Press, 142
storytelling talents of, 143
Rosh Hashanah:
Rashi’s account of planting custom before, 64
Tashlich and, 63–64
Rota, Italo, 127
Rouen, 20, 22, 42, 154, 155, 164, 165, 213, 228, 237, 238, 249, 251, 253, 276, 277, 281, 282, 285, 296, 299, 318, 321
Allied bombing of, 287
cathedral of, 263–64
course of the Seine through, 24, 259–60, 271
early history of, 260, 262, 263, 264
Flaubert’s life in, 101, 265
importance of, 260
Joan of Arc in, 260–62, 261, 263, 265
La Salle commemorated in, 268, 269
liberation of, 1944, 288
Pessiot’s photo collection of, 268, 269
Pissarro on, 255
Reinvent the Seine competition sponsored by, 45, 46, 307, 308
speed-painting contest in, 255–56
Verrazzano celebrated in, 266–68
World War II and, 286–288
Rouen Cathedral, 263–64
Rousselet, Yann, 274
Rowing:
from Île de Chatou, 107–09, 111–15, 112
Monet and, 250
Napoléon III’s appreciation for, 110
Rowing-Club—Paris Rowing Society (Société de
Régates Parisiennes), 110
rowing shells, delicacy of, 113
Rozerot, Jeanne, 190
rue de Bièvre, 14
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