connecting, of the Seine, 14
in Gennevilliers, 164
Seine at Troyes and network of, 62, 63, 64, 65
canoe-rower culture, 109
canoes, prehistoric, in Bercy, 72, 73–74, 75
carless Seine initiative, 310
Carmen (Bizet), 252, 321
Caron, Leslie, 167, 168, 290
carp, introduced into the Seine, 116
Carpeaux, Jean-Baptiste, 122
Cartier-Bresson, Henri, 192
Casadebaig, Sophie, 42, 43, 46
Castro, Fidel, 142, 334
Catholics, civil war between Huguenots and, 204
Caudebec-en-Caux:
postcard of le mascaret appearing at, 270
origination of name, 273
Cavelier, René-Robert, Sieur de La Salle. see La
Salle, Robert de
Celles-sur-Ource, 53
Celtic Gauls, Gallo-Roman temple and, 35
Cendrars, Blaise, 3
Cenni, Maxime, 119
Ceres (Demeter), 47, 48
Cerny people, 73–74
C’était un rendez-vous (short film), 175–76
Cézanne, Paul, 240, 242, 252, 321
Chamber Music (Joyce), 6
Champagne:
in Aube region, history of, 52–53
designated vineyards in France, 51–52
global thirst for, 53
luxury vs. artisanal, 53
on the Seine, 51, 53–57
Champagne 2e Zone (Champagne of Second Rank), 53
Champagne industry, revenues of, 52
Champ de Mars, 243
Champs-Élysées, Avenue des, 90, 171, 289, 298, 311, 333
Chanel’s J12 ceramic unisex watch ad, the Seine, seduction, and, 139
“Chanson de la Seine” (Prévert), 9
chapeau de Caudebec (Caudebec hat), 273, 275
Charade (film), 17, 136–37
Charbit, Milena, 235, 242, 243, 244
Charigot, Aline, 254
Charles VII, king of France, 261
Charles IX, king of France, 226
Charles the Simple, king of France, 263, 321
Château de Malmaison, 21
Château Devaux, Champagne estate, 53–55, 54
Château du Taillis, 285
Château Gaillard, 263, 284, 321
Châtillon-sur-Seine, 20, 58, 60, 61, 63
Saint-Vorles Church in, 58, 60
Chauvet, Monsignor Patrick, 331
Chazelle, Damien, 167, 168
Chevalier, Maurice, 173, 183
Child, Julia, 259, 302
Child, Paul, 302
Chinese couples, pre-wedding photographs of, along the Seine, 8, 12, 192
Chirac, Jacques, 99, 100
Christo, 86
cinema. see films, scenes on the Seine
Cinémathèque Française, Paris, 169, 170
Cité de la Mode et du Design cultural center, 309
city of love. see Paris
Clairvaux, abbey at, 52
Claudel, Camille, 65
Clément, René, 290
climate change:
changing of the Seine and, 147, 151
flood predictions and, 104
“pancakes” of ice on the Seine and, 277
Clos de Rome choir, performance for bateliers and their families, 155–56
Club Nautique, 148
Cluny Museum, vestiges of the Nautes at, 76
coat of arms, Paris:
image of, 70
public buildings adorned with, 80, 92
on secondhand Hermès scarf, 81
and symbol of a ship in Lutetia, 77
tribute paid to the Nautes and, 79–80
Cobb, Richard, 227
Collins, Larry, 290
Colonel Paulin (fireboat), 336
Columbey-les-Deux-Églises, 53
Columbia River, 180
Communist Party of France, 302
Conciergerie (medieval prison), 126, 192, 311
Conflans-Sainte-Honorine:
French capital of the bateliers at, 154
pillars of barge culture preserved at, 10, 161
“confluence” rule for the name of the Seine, 25
container ships, 164, 260
Cooper, Chris, 175
Coppola, Francis Ford, 290
Coriton, Bastien, 273, 274, 275
Corot, Henry, 43, 44, 45
Côte des Bar, 52
Cottin, Camille, 139
Coty, René, 17
Cour Carrée, 14
Courbet, Gustave, 249
“CPR Annie,” 225
Crazy Horse (Paris cabaret), 123
Crosby, Bing, 183
Cruise, Tom, 169
Curie, Marie, 240
Daguerre, Louis, 191
daguerreotypes, 85, 191–92
Daubigny, François, 249
Damon, Matt, 175
dams, 103, 117, 145, 180, 272
dancing, along the Seine, 139, 167–69, 306, 311, 312–14
Danube River, 5, 9, 180, 269
Daumier, Honoré, 100–101, 109
Davy, Marie-Christine, 254
Day, Doris, 183
D-Day, 284, 286, 287, 321
Deae Sequana Rufus donavit (Rufus gave this to the goddess Sequana), 43
Death in Paris (Cobb), 227
Deauville, 298
Debbouze, Jamel, 240
de Gaulle, Charles, 53, 92, 333, 334
Delanoë, Bertrand, 133, 227, 310
Delavigne, Casimir, 301
Delon, Alain, 290
Demeter (Ceres), 47, 48
Demunck, Nathalie, 275
Denis, patron saint of France, 248
Denis, Serge, 212
Depardieu, Gérard, 13
Derain, André, 62, 252
Descension, Nuit Blanche installation, 124
Deschamps, Eustache, 181
Deshays, Émile, 261
d’Estaing, Valéry Giscard, 293
Détournement (Thidet), 310
de Troyes, Chrétien, 62
Devaux, Jean-Pol Auguste, 54
Deyts, Simone-Antoinette, 37
Dijon, 29, 30, 32, 43
Musée Archéologique de Dijon, 42, 44–45, 46
statue of Sequana in museum in, 40, 41
dikes, the Seine at Troyes and, 62
Diplomacy (film), 290–91
Dom Pérignon, 51
Donen, Stanley, 17
Dordogne River, 21
Douglas, Kirk, 290
Douix River, 60
Druids, 33, 333
Dubuffet, Jean, 244
Ducasse, Alain, 311, 312
Ducasse sur Seine (restaurant), 311–12
Duchamp, Marcel, 265
Dufy, Raoul, 300
Dumas, Alexandre, 10
Duteurtre, Benoît, 303–4
Edict of Nantes, 83
Edison, Thomas, 170
Edwards, Blake, 135
Eiffel, Gustave, 145, 318
Eiffel Tower, 6, 15, 16, 90, 98, 194, 289, 290, 291, 316, 317, 318, 324, 338
coat of arms and, 80
houseboats and, 147, 150
in films, 170, 171, 173, 174
fishing nearby, 119
flood of 1910 and, 145
illuminated, at night, 82
lights of, millennium celebration and, 122
nighttime view of Pont d’Iéna and place du Trocadéro from, 120
Pont Neuf, comparison to, 84, 85
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 287
Elbe River, 278
Elizabeth II, queen of England, nighttime boat ride on the Seine, 17
English Channel, 24, 294
Entertainment Weekly, 168
Épernay, vast vineyards around, 51
Ephrussi, Charles, 254
Épinoche (barge), 156
Epte River, 250
Equilbey, Laurence, 237
Essoyes, 53
Eugène Boudin Museum, Honfleur,
298
Eugénie, empress of France, 134
Exposition Universelle of 1889, 318
Exposition Universelle of 1900, 90, 170
early River Brigade and, 215
Zola’s photographs of, 194
ex-votos (votive offerings):
Deae Sequana Rufus donavit inscription, 43
discovered at source of the Seine, 36
at Musée Archéologique de Dijon, 43, 44, 45
Facebook, barge life and, 162
Fargue, Léon-Paul, 202, 204
Fauvist paintings of the Seine, 300
“Femme Fatale” (Maupassant), 134
Ferrat, Jean, 182
Ferré, Léo, 182
films, scenes on the Seine, 166, 167–76. see also individual films
Fiorini, Mattéo, 18
firefighters. see Brigade de Sapeurs-Pompiers de Paris fireworks, sexuality and, 130, 131–33
fish, underneath River Brigade main pontoon boat, 216
Fishermen’s Association, of the Hauts-de-Seine department, 118
fishing, on the Seine, 106, 107, 115–19
fishing permits (cartes de pêche), 117
Flâneur, The (White), 136
Flaubert, Gustave, 10, 101, 127, 133, 139, 259, 265–66, 267, 269, 287, 321
Fleury, Benoît, 57
Fleury, Colette, 57, 105
Fleury, Émile, 55
Fleury, Jean-Pierre, 55
biodynamic farming methods used by, 57
on his family’s vineyard, near Courteron, 50 Fleury, Jean-Sébastien, 57
Fleury, Morgane, 57
Fleury family, Champagne estate, near Courteron, 50, 55–56, 104
fleuve, masculine appellation of, 10
floating houses:
elaborate, 148
odd and rare, 142
see also houseboats
floods and flooding, of the Seine, 34, 73, 78, 84
in 582, 144
in 814, 144
in 1658, 144
in 1910, 140, 141, 145, 146, 182
in 2016, 34, 141–42, 143, 144, 145–47
climate change and predictions of, 104
Sequana and, 109
songs and, 181
statue of the Zouave as unofficial flood monitor, Pont de l’Alma, 6, 146
in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, 144
Fluctuart, Right Bank of the Seine, 315
Fluctuat nec mergitur (she is tossed on the waves but does not sink):
on coat of arms of Paris, 70, 79, 80
on the Paris firefighters’ helmets, 338
slogan of resistance, in wake of terrorist attack in 2015, 80
Fontainebleau, 156
Marie-Antoinette and, 66
painters and, 67
Seine touches forest of, 65
Treaty of, 21
Ford, Glenn, 290
Foreign Correspondent (film), 284–85
Forestier, Laurent Lorenzi, 226
Fort Niagara, 268
Fournaise, Alphonse, 110, 253
Fournier, Édouard, 202
France:
designated vineyards for Champagne in, 51–52
GRs (grandes randonnées) in, 60
Neolithic, monument builders of, 73–74
Notre-Dame Cathedral as center of, 332
Paris as source of power in, 11
patron saint of, 248
Seine’s outsized role in, 19–20, 21–22
system of waterways in, 21
France Musique, 303
François I, king of France, 266, 301
Franprix supermarket chain, 164
Fraser, James Earle, 231
French Hiking Federation, 60
French Line, 293
French literature, romance of the Seine in, 16, 133–34
French Revolution, 17, 93, 334
bridges over the Seine during, 85
bouquinistes during and after, 204
centennial of, commemorating, 316, 318
and Jumièges, 282
Marie Antoinette imprisoned during, 311
Notre-Dame Cathedral as a Temple of Reason during, 334–335
nude river bathing banned after, 100
Pont de la Concorde built during, 90
suicide decriminalized after, 227
Freycinet (river barge), 142
Friends of the Sources of the Seine, 30, 38
Fulton, Robert, 268
Gagneux, Yves, 100, 101
Gagnidze, George, 186
Gallet, Jean-Claude, 329, 330, 331, 332, 336, 337–38
Gallo-Roman temple, at source of the Seine:
Celtic Gauls and, 35
remnants of, 36–37, 38
Galloy, Jacky, 198, 200–201, 202, 207, 208–9
Ganges River, 9
Ganivet, Vincent, 299
Gardais, Jean Jack, 111
Gare Saint-Lazare, 145
Garonne River, 21
Gaul, Roman conquest of, 31, 35
Gaumont studio, sponsorship for restored L’ Atalante, 160
Gautier, Théophile, 103
Gautrand, Jean Claude, 193
gay men, cruising and sexual refuge along the banks of the Seine and, 135–36
Gehry, Frank, 170
Geneviève, patron saint of Paris, 90, 144
Gennevilliers:
description of, 164
grain in cargo barge at, 152
storage silos, 309
Geoffrey the Handsome, 321
Géricault, Thèodore, 113
Gershwin, George, 167
Gershwin, Ira, 167
Gibbons, Helen Davenport, 141
Giesler, Hermann, 289
Gil Blas (Lesage), 19
Gillet, Laurent, 54, 55
Gima (barge), 156
Giraud, Amandine, 219, 220
Girod, Jean-Pierre, 285
Gironde River, 278
Giverny, Monet’s residence in, 250–51, 264, 321
Gleizes, Albert, 241
Gontier, Jean-Marie, 332
Gosling, Ryan, 168
goujon (fish), 115
Grandin, Michel, 26
Grand Palais, 92, 122, 206, 311
Grant, Cary, 17, 132, 136
Gravelet, Jean François. see Blondin, Charles
Great Wall of China, Guo-Qiang’s explosive event at, 131
Green, Julien, 14, 116, 202, 317, 325
Green Berets, The (film), 183
Grégoire de Tours, 144
gribane (nineteenth-century sailboat), 272
GR2 trail, 60
Guillaume-Petit, Sophie, 299
Guillaumin, Jean-Baptiste Arnaud, 300
guinguettes (small restaurant-cabarets outside of Paris), 134–35
Guns at Last Light, The (Atkinson), 281
Guo-Qiang, Cai:
conceptual pyrotechnic explosive events by, 131
One Night Stand, 130, 131–33
Gustave Flaubert Literary Hotel, 265
Guthrie, Woody, 180
Hades (god of the underworld), 47
Hamel, Father Jacques, 213
Hand Book up the Seine, The (Smith), 116
Harfleur, 301
Haropa, 164
Haudiquet, Annette, 300
Haussmann, Georges-Eugène, Baron, 5
Île de la Cité transformed by, 239
ordered to define source of the Seine, 31
Parisian water supply and sewer networks and, 102
as “prefect of the Seine,” 15
Hauts-de-Seine, 109, 118, 237
“hedge warfare,” 284
Heller, Serge, 313
Hemingway, Ernest, 7, 115
Henri III, king of France, 83
Henri IV, king of France, 66, 93, 239, 274
assassination of, different versions of, 86–87
construction of Pont Neuf under, 83–84, 88
equestrian statue of, 85, 93, 95
swimming in the Seine, 100
Henry V
I, king of England, 333
Hepburn, Audrey:
in Charade, 17, 136
on a boat on the Seine, during filming of Paris When It Sizzles, 166
in Sabrina, 13
Heraclitus, 326
Heva, 47, 48
Hidalgo, Anne, 310, 311
2024 Summer Olympic campaign organized by, 98, 99
on Nuit Blanche, 124
Hillairet, Jacques, 333
Hinnemann, Yvan, 138
Historial Jeanne d’Arc, Rouen, 262
historic boats, Sequana Association and, 110
Hitchcock, Alfred, 132, 284
Hitler, Adolf, 287, 289, 290, 291
Hoareau, Antoine, 297
on discovery of bronze statue of Sequana, 44
on the origins of the Seine, 29
seeing the source of the Seine with, 30–38
Honfleur, 249, 301, 320
divide between Le Havre and, 304
driving from Le Havre to, 297–98
end of the Seine and, 293
estuary, 276
pleasure boats at the inner harbor of, 295
tourism in, 294
Honglei, Sun, 192
Hôtel des Invalides, Napoléon’s sarcophagus in, 21
Hôtel-Dieu, 239
Houdini, Harry, 224
houseboats, 6
buying in Paris, complications tied to, 150
city/suburban life divide and, 148
mooring of, 145
Mort Rosenblum’s naval craft, 142, 143–44, 145–46, 151
motorless houses on pontoons, 148
odd and rare, 142
photograph of, 192
in the Port de l’Arsenal, 149
registered number of, in Paris, 148
small port associations and, 147
views of Paris from, 147
working boats transformed into, 148
House of the Knights Templar, Caudebec, 274
Hudson, Henry, 266, 267
Hudson River, 10, 133, 173
Hugo (film), 228
Hugo, Léopoldine, 229, 275
Hugo, Victor, 319, 334
on Abbey of Jumièges, 281
Les Misérables, 222, 230
Notre-Dame Cathedral and, 334-35
the Seine and, 228–30
Huguenots, 204, 282, 334
Humbert, Stéphane, 162–63
Hunchback of Notre-Dame, The (Hugo), 228, 229, 230, 334
Hundred Years’ War, 263, 301, 333
Île aux Bernaches, 114, 241–42
Île aux Cygnes:
creation of, 244
quarter-scale replica of Statue of Liberty on, 316, 317, 318
Île aux Dames, 238
Île aux Juifs, joined by Pont Neuf to Île de la Cité, 84 Île aux Moines, 238
Île aux Vaches, 239
Île Bonport, 238
Île de Belcinac, 237
Île de Chatou (Island of the Impressionists), 109, 238, 246, 252
dam and lock, 117
La Maison Fournaise on, 108, 246, 253, 254
Sunday afternoon of rowing from, 107–8, 111–15, 112, 320
Île-de-France, 65, 247, 250
wait time for houseboat berth in, 150
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