num_pages: 320
description: A trip through Paris as it will never be again-dark and dank and poor and slapdash and truly bohemianParis the City of Light the city of fine dining and seductive couture and intellectual hauteur was until fairly recently always accompanied by its the city of the poor the outcast the criminal the eccentric the willfully nonconforming. In The Other Paris  Luc Sante gives us a panoramic view of that second metropolis which has nearly vanished but whose traces are in the bricks and stones of the contemporary city in the culture of France itself and by extension throughout the world.Drawing on testimony from a great range of witnesses-from Balzac and Hugo to assorted boulevardiers rabble-rousers and tramps-Sante whose thorough research is matched only by the vividness of his narration takes the reader on a whirlwind tour. Richly illustrated with more than three hundred images The Other Paris scuttles through the knotted streets of pre-Haussmann Paris through the improvised accommodations of the original bohemians through the whorehouses and dance halls and hobo shelters of the old city.A lively survey of labor conditions prostitution drinking crime and popular entertainment and of the reporters raliste singers pamphleteers and poets who chronicled their evolution The Other Paris is a book meant to upend the story of the French capital to reclaim the city from the bons vivants and the speculators and to hold a light to the works and lives of those expunged from its center by the forces of profit.
language: English
title: The Other Paris: The People's City, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux