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  The Invention of Paris: A History in Footsteps (Hardback) By (author) Eric Hazan, Translated by David Fernbach

  

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  Short Description for The Invention of ParisTakes the reader on an historical tour through the construction of Paris, exploring the places and struggles that have marked its growth. This book focuses both on the literary and cultural representations of the city, as well as riots, rebellions and revolutions - throughout the nineteenth century and up until 1968.
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  • Publisher: Verso Books
  • Published: 02 March 2010
  • Format: Hardback 400 pages
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  • Categories: European History | Guidebooks | Travel Writing
  • ISBN 13: 9781844674114 ISBN 10: 1844674118
  • Sales rank: 82,532

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• In "The Invention of Paris", radical author and publisher Eric Hazan takes the reader on an exciting and historically rich tour through the construction of Paris, exploring the places and struggles that have marked its growth. Concentrating both on the literary and cultural representations of the city, as well as riots, rebellions and revolutions - throughout the nineteenth century and up until 1968 - Hazan acts as a guide who is simultaneously personal and rigorous in tone. Introducing us to characters as varied as Balzac, Baudelaire, Blanqui, Flaubert, Hugo, Manet and Proust, Hazan charts the formation of a Red Paris through the sedimentation of acts and sources of insurgency, and gives us an unparalleled history of the barricade in the life of the city. "The Invention of Paris" opens a window on a Paris too often hidden beneath tourist kitsch and bourgeois complacency.