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.
The Invention of Paris: A History in Footsteps
Eric Hazan
$29.95
- SKU:
- 9781844677054
- UPC:
- 9781844677054
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- Published by:
- Verso Books
- Translated by:
- David Fernbach
- Pub date:
- 06/06/2011
- Binding type:
- Paperback
- Pages:
- 408
- ISBN:
- 9781844677054