Parisians
Subtitle: An Adventure History of Paris
Publisher: W.W. Norton
Published: 2010
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780330452441
Description: No-one knows a city like the people who live there - so who is better to relate the history of Paris than its inhabitants through the ages? Taking us from 1750 to the new millennium, Parisians introduces us to some of those inhabitants: we meet spies, soldiers, scientists and alchemists; police commissioners, photographers and philosophers; adulterers, murderers, prisoners and prostitutes. A book unlike any other, it is at once a book to read from cover to cover, to lose yourself in, to dip in and out of at leisure, and a book to return to again and again - rather like the city itself.
Notes: Source title: Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris