Parisians
Subtitle: an adventure history of Paris
By: Graham Robb
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 475
ISBN-13: 9780393067248
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 447-[462]) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Departure; title: One night at the Palais-Royal; title: The man who saved Paris; title: Lost; title: Restoration; title: Files of the Sûreté; title: A property in Bohemia; title: Marville; title: Regression; title: Madame Zola; title: Marcel in the Métro; title: The Notre-Dame equation; title: A little tour of Paris; title: Occupation; title: Lovers of Saint-Germain-des-Prés; title: The day of the fox; title: Expanding the domain of the possible; title: Périphérique; title: Sarko, Bouna and Zyed; title: Terminus : the North Col.