Parisians : an Adventure History of Paris /
Robb, Graham,
Parisians : an Adventure History of Paris / Graham Robb. - 1st ed. - New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Co., c2010. - xi, 475 p., [16] p. of plates
Departure -- One night at the Palais-Royal -- The man who saved Paris -- Lost -- Restoration -- Files of the Sûreté -- A property in Bohemia -- Marville -- Regression -- Madame Zola -- Marcel in the Métro -- The Notre-Dame equation -- A little tour of Paris -- Occupation -- Lovers of Saint-Germain-des-Prés -- The day of the fox -- Expanding the domain of the possible -- Périphérique -- Sarko, Bouna and Zyed -- Terminus : the North Col.
Napoleon Bonaparte, Marie Antoinette, Baudelaire, Baron Haussmann, the real-life Mimi of La Boheme, Proust, Charles de Gaulle--these and many more are Robb's cast of characters in a series of stories about the Paris you never knew.
9780393067248 (hardcover) : 0393067246 (hardcover)
History of Paris--Fiction
Paris (France)--History
Paris (France)
944.361 / ROB-P
Parisians : an Adventure History of Paris / Graham Robb. - 1st ed. - New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Co., c2010. - xi, 475 p., [16] p. of plates
Departure -- One night at the Palais-Royal -- The man who saved Paris -- Lost -- Restoration -- Files of the Sûreté -- A property in Bohemia -- Marville -- Regression -- Madame Zola -- Marcel in the Métro -- The Notre-Dame equation -- A little tour of Paris -- Occupation -- Lovers of Saint-Germain-des-Prés -- The day of the fox -- Expanding the domain of the possible -- Périphérique -- Sarko, Bouna and Zyed -- Terminus : the North Col.
Napoleon Bonaparte, Marie Antoinette, Baudelaire, Baron Haussmann, the real-life Mimi of La Boheme, Proust, Charles de Gaulle--these and many more are Robb's cast of characters in a series of stories about the Paris you never knew.
9780393067248 (hardcover) : 0393067246 (hardcover)
History of Paris--Fiction
Paris (France)--History
Paris (France)
944.361 / ROB-P