Paris The Biography of a City
by Jones, ColinEdition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-04-04
Publisher(s): Penguin Books
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Summary
The Roman Emperor Julian praised it for its wine. Ernest Hemingway thrived in its seductive bohemia. We know it fondly as the "city of light." For two thousand years Paris has been a perennial source of fascination, a city that has endured Viking invasion, the Black Death, and Nazi occupation to emerge as the heart of a resurgent Europe. Colin Jones goes off the beaten track to capture Paris's evolution from Stone Age settlement to prosperous contemporary capital. Lavishly illustrated, with sidebars that offer an in-depth look at subjects like the catacombs, Victor Hugo, and the Eiffel Tower, this is the ultimate narrative of Paris's epic past from one of the city's foremost historians. Book jacket.
Author Biography
Colin Jones is professor of history at the University of Warwick and the author of several works of history, including The Longman Companion to the French Revolution and The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to Napoleon
Table of Contents
| Introduction: An Impossible History of Paris? | p. xi |
| Paris-Lutetia (from earliest times to c. 1000) | p. 1 |
| Features Boxes | |
| The Arenes de Lutece | p. 8 |
| A Parisian Child | p. 13 |
| Saint Genevieve | p. 19 |
| 'Queen of Cities' (c. 1000-c. 1300) | p. 32 |
| Features Boxes | |
| Saint-Denis | p. 40 |
| The Philip Augustus Wall | p. 46 |
| Robert de Sorbon | p. 59 |
| The City Adrift (c. 1300-c. 1480) | p. 62 |
| Features Boxes | |
| Montfaucon | p. 70 |
| The Parvis of Notre-Dame | p. 79 |
| Francois Villon | p. 92 |
| Paris Reborn, Paris Reformed (c. 1480-1594) | p. 96 |
| Features Boxes | |
| The Louvre | p. 96 |
| The River Bievre | p. 108 |
| Henry III | p. 124 |
| Grand Siecle, Great Eclipse (1594-1715) | p. 132 |
| Features Boxes | |
| The Pont Neuf | p. 136 |
| Madame de Sevigne | p. 143 |
| The Cour des Miracles | p. 165 |
| The Kingless Capital of Enlightenment (1715-89) | p. 173 |
| Features Boxes | |
| The Cafe Procope | p. 188 |
| Rose Bertin | p. 199 |
| Rue Mouffetard | p. 203 |
| Revolution and Empire (1789-1815) | p. 215 |
| Features Boxes | |
| Philippe-Egalite, duc d'Orleans | p. 222 |
| The Grand Vefour | p. 246 |
| The Catacombs | p. 253 |
| Between Napoleons (1815-51) | p. 263 |
| Features Boxes | |
| Rue Transnonain | p. 274 |
| Victor Hugo | p. 279 |
| The Arcades | p. 287 |
| Haussmannism and the City of Modernity (1851-89) | p. 299 |
| Features Boxes | |
| Felice Orsini | p. 321 |
| The Mur des Federes | p. 328 |
| The Eiffel Tower | p. 340 |
| The Anxious Spectacle (1889-1918) | p. 344 |
| Features Boxes | |
| Alphand | p. 349 |
| Ilot insalubre numero 16 | p. 362 |
| Sacre-Coeur of Montmartre | p. 375 |
| Faded Dreams, Lost Illusions (1918-45) | p. 385 |
| Features Boxes | |
| Josephine Baker | p. 389 |
| The Vespasiennes | p. 398 |
| The Vel' d'Hiv | p. 420 |
| The Remaking of Paris (1945-c. 1995) | p. 426 |
| Features Boxes | |
| The Metro in Zazie | p. 434 |
| The 'Algerian Bridge' | p. 444 |
| The Marais | p. 451 |
| Paris at a Glance | p. 464 |
| Conclusion: Big Projects in a Bigger City (Paris in the Twenty-first Century) | p. 465 |
| Characteristic Buildings | p. 475 |
| Maps | p. 478 |
| Glossary | p. 486 |
| Abbreviations | p. 488 |
| Notes | p. 489 |
| Bibliographical Guide | p. 511 |
| List of Illustrations | p. 525 |
| Acknowledgements | p. 528 |
| Index | p. 531 |
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