The Invention of Paris: A History in Footsteps

by Hazan, Eric
ISBN: 9781844677054
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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.

  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Hazan, Eric
  • ISBN: 9781844677054
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.23 x 1.25
  • Number Of Pages: 408
  • Publication Year: 2011

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