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- ISBN: 9781844677054 | 1844677052
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 6/6/2011
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#xE2;#xAC;"s ear for a story with a historian#xE2;#xAC;"s command of the facts, he introduces an incomparable cast of characters: the literati, the philosophers and the artists#xE2;#xAC;#x1D;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#xE2;#xAC;"s vibrant and bloody past, revealing the city in striking new colors.