The invention of Paris : a history in footsteps / Eric Hazan.
Material type: TextPublication details: London : Verso, 2011.Description: 384p : IllISBN:- 1844677052 (pbk.)
- 9781844677054 (pbk.)
- City planning -- France -- Paris -- History -- 19th century
- City planning -- France -- Paris -- History -- 20th century
- Urbanization -- France -- Paris -- History -- 19th century
- Urbanization -- France -- Paris -- History -- 20th century
- Paris (France) -- History -- 19th century
- Paris (France) -- History -- 20th century
- Paris (France) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
- Paris (France) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
- 944.361 HAZ
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The Invention of Paris is a tour through the streets and history of the French capital under the guidance of radical Parisian author and publisher Eric Hazan.
Hazan reveals a city whose squares echo with the riots, rebellions and revolutions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Combining the raconteur's ear for a story with a historian's command of the facts, he introduces an incomparable cast of characters: the literati, the philosophers and the artists--Balzac, Baudelaire, Blanqui, Flaubert, Hugo, Maney, and Proust, of course; but also Doisneau, Nerval and Rousseau.
It is a Paris dyed a deep red in its convictions. It is haunted and vitalized by the history of the barricades, which Hazan retells in rich detail. The Invention of Paris opens a window on the forgotten byways of the capital's vibrant and bloody past, revealing the city in striking new colors.
Originaltitel: L\'invention de Paris.
Includes bibliographical references and index.